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Sorry, I was raised up and so were my kids you never put yourself in a position where it can be perceived a ref's call can make a difference. As stated, we dug a hole and had to make a hard run to get back into it. Energy expended, lead to being a tick slower and we got calls against us. If a ref's call determines the outcome of a game, why play the game? We put ourselves in that position.
We got beat. We'll be ok.
Guyscwhat was the final?
64-53? Ish
It's almost impossible to win a basketball game when you turn the ball over 25 times. This team is clearly more talented and deep than any other team we've had in the last 10 years. I hope they can learn to settle down a bit and make smarter plays.
That was brutal to watch last night.
1. Too many turnovers
2. Didn't see many clean offensive sets
3. We lack guards with ball handling abilities
4. A lot of newcomers, not gelling yet
5. Shawn pressed too much in the beginning-he looked like a freshman in 1st half
This team will get better. Rimmer needs to get more shots up from the outside along with Shepard. The ball must go through Long's hands every time down with him either making a hard move and getting to the line or kicking out to an open shooter. Defensively we will be better, we just looked like a team with a bunch of new guys playing a pick up game for the first time. Tough start to the season....As Crazy said, you can't justify anything by saying that we will improve week to week in this league. Your shot is now..winning as many OOC games as possible or we'll end up needing to do what we did last year.
We need to figure out a way to use Devonta's athleticism that doesn't involve him handling the ball.
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Originally Posted by epiccajun
The refs caused traveling and errant passing? Notice all of our traveling calls were against our young players (Washington, walker). I think we need to look at ourselves before we point the blame at others.
You learn to not walk in biddy ball....
Turnovers were definitely disappointing. Coach Marlin said as much in his post game comments. He sounded very frustrated as taking care of the ball had been a point of emphasis in practice. However some of the moving picks and charging calls in the 2nd half were very questionable. Those are considered turnovers, just like a traveling violation or throwing the ball out of bounds is. I will say there were not as many of those in the first half when sloppy play led to the 11 point deficit. It is not uncommon when a team makes a run, they expend so much energy in doing so they cannot sustain it. That happened last night. Moving forward I expect to see Abbeville walkon Tiremone Williams at the point more, perhaps even starting. He did well in that role last night and seemed to settle the team down. In fact we shot 50% in the 2nd half. Just need to play with more efficiency from the beginning to have success. That will be critical on Friday at Auburn as Bruce Pearl is their coach and he will have his guys press relentlessly as he did while at Tennessee.
From watching coach Marlin's reaction on the bench, I don't think he felt a few of the traveling calls were actually traveling.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajunfan79