Auburn is best when they are scoring in transition. That comes off defense but LSU was stretching the defense with their perimeter shooting in the first half and Auburn played as poorly , defensively, in the first half as I've seen all year. Auburn's offense would be much better if McCormick could dribble penetrate and find the bigs slashing to the basket but he makes too many poor decisions in traffic so they are forced into bad shots with the clock winding down far too often. McCormick could take a lesson from May's at LSU on how to play the point. Pearl is doing some of his best coaching with what he has to work with though and Auburn is lucky to have him.