I’m telling you that was similar to the offense Shipley ran. Lamar was streaking for a lay up option the instant the opponents took a shot. He got countless layup opportunities and short jumpers. That’s why we broke the century mark so often. Remember there was no shot clocks then. Often the opponents simply took as long as possible to take a shot.
I really don't want to get into an argument about this as its fairly ridiculous to do so. The LMU scheme was different and frenetic in pace but it had so many flaws. First, it was a "O" defense scheme meaning one player literally played no defense but tried to anticipate a steal at the top of the defense to try to get the opposition to take an early shot and shoot out to get in a transition lane. You tried to get the other team to play faster. Today's game everybody is trying to play faster and today's game caters to more and more shooters already. LMU's defense is the reason they only finished 21 in the AP in 89-90 even though they led the country in scoring. Do you want to know how many points they gave up? They gave up the most at 108 pts/game! That's insane. They also had 2 all americans who averaged 70 points between them and another all conference player averaging over 20/game. That was about 75% of their scoring.
Yeah, I figured my comments would start another concession cost debate lol.
Like I said, other than beer I rarely get foods, so it’s not anything I am personally invested in, but I get it’s importance.
But taking young kids to a game discussion kind of gets my attention. When I was a very young lad, my dad and grandfathers took my brother and I to an Astro’s game in the brand new Astro dome. Other than NOLA, which because of family I had been there many times, Houston was the first ‘big city’ I had been to, so that was something. But the thing that sticks with me is that my grandfather bought us these little Astro’s bats that was a cherished possession of ours for many years.
Oh, and both grandads smoked cigars there and back, and I don’t think they even put a crack in the windows, lol.
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