Boot Up: Will Wade Breaks Down LSU Basketball's Elite 2020 Recruiting Class
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4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A special crossover episode, as Will Wade takes over the HFP feed for the day to break down LSU's 2020 hoops class, currently ranked No. 5 nationally. The group features the son of an LSU legend, the best scoring guard in the country, a point guard with Tremont Waters' passing ability and explosive length, Louisiana's Mr. Basketball, a 17-year-old high-flyer from Vegas, a rebounding machine from California, and a versatile, defensively-gifted transfer who practiced all spring with the Tigers. Subscribe to Boot Up: The LSU Basketball Podcast here: https://anchor.fm/boot-up/. Read the recap of LSU's 2020 class here: https://lsusports.net/news/2020/4/16/mens-basketball-elite-2020-class-gives-will-wade-hope-for-best-team-yet.aspx
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Cody. |
| 0:01.3 | Wanted to record an intro before we get into the episode. |
| 0:04.8 | Obviously, if you clicked on this, you can tell from the title. |
| 0:07.0 | This is not an episode of Hey Fighten podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | This is an episode of Boot Up the LSU Basketball podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | If you do not subscribe to boot up the LSU basketball podcast already, |
| 0:16.6 | please go over there today and give us a subscription, a review, a rating, all that fun stuff. |
| 0:22.5 | This episode is a conversation with LSU basketball coach Will Wade on his 2020 signing class, |
| 0:28.0 | which is a top five signing class in the country. |
| 0:30.4 | Wanted to put it on this feed, so anyone who isn't aware of the boot-up feed could get this episode |
| 0:35.7 | and go over there and subscribe. |
| 0:37.2 | If you are |
| 0:38.0 | looking for more football episodes, don't worry. We have more coming, more road to the pros |
| 0:41.6 | with guys getting ready for the NFL draft and more episodes of Hayfight and podcast coming to |
| 0:46.2 | you shortly. But for today, a little basketball for your ear. So here we go. I'm excited. I feel like we're going to have our best team since we've been here. And I feel good about the group we got. I feel good about what we're going to have coming back. We have a good mix of experience, talented newcomers. And so I think we've got a chance if we close this thing out right, like I said, to have one of our best teams here. We're going to go attack our weaknesses and get better there. We're going to keep our offense humble. Bring our defense up to speed a little bit. We'll be good to go. What's up, everybody? Welcome to another edition of Boot Up the LSU basketball podcast. I'm Cody Wersham, Digital Media Reporter for LSU Athletics. |
| 1:28.7 | Joining me on today's show, LSU head coach Will Wade breaks down, the 2020 signing class, |
| 1:34.7 | currently ranked fifth in the country. |
| 1:37.2 | It's a loaded group. |
| 1:38.2 | That doesn't even include the transfers for Rief O'Neill and Josh LaBlock. |
| 1:41.7 | On Wednesday, LSU added Eric Gaines, a point guard. |
| 1:44.9 | They added Mwani Wilkinson, a very athletic forward, and they picked up, as I mentioned, |
| 1:50.9 | Sharif O'Neill on the transfer market. |
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