Will Wade and the Tigers go on to include to an embarrassment of riches to its 2021-22 roster. LSU introduced on Friday that guard Justice Williams has reclassified to the 2021 class and will sign up for the Tigers for the drop semester starting up Monday.
A 6-foot-3 combo guard, Williams fully commited to the method this summer season as a member of the 2022 recruiting course as a member of the prestigous Montverde Academy the place he put in his junior year.
“We were really psyched when Justice fully commited before this summertime and we realized there was an option for him to enroll early,” reported Mentor Wade. “He is a combo guard who can rating at all a few amounts and has great eyesight off ball screens. Justice is an really difficult employee who has been a element of profitable teams all over the place he has performed. He will be a terrific in good shape with our staff and system.”
LSUCountry caught up with Williams previously this summertime when he 1st dedicated, indicating how a lot of a family members sense he received from Will Wade and the Tigers’ application.
“Coach Wade and Coach Nickelberry just created me truly feel at household as very well as my family members. We all just related,” claimed Williams. “In conditions of participating in in their system, they have a wonderful playstyle with a large amount of ball screens and isolation plays as well. Mainly an NBA procedure which is what I want to get prepared for, so it designed feeling to me.”
Williams now joins an totally loaded again court that consists of transfer Xavier Pinson and Adam Miller as very well as freshman Brandon Murray and returning sophomore guard Eric Gaines. LSU has invested most of the offseason retooling the expertise on this roster, commencing with Pinson and Miller, two guards who have established to be substantial volume scorers.
This group has a good deal of size to it as properly with the additions of Tari Eason, Alex Fudge, Efton Reid and Jerrell Colbert whilst also bringing again veteran Darius Times and Shareef O’Neal as nicely. Wade and organization enter the 2021 season with as deep a roster there is in the SEC and will have lots of rotations to pick out from this year.