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Despite a strong defensive effort in the first half, Louisiana men's basketball couldn't overcome a slow start offensively in a 74-56 defeat against Troy.
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Despite a strong defensive effort in the first half, Louisiana men's basketball couldn't overcome a slow start offensively in a 74-56 defeat against Troy.
First, that was the smallest crowd I've ever seen at any UL basketball game. Second, the refs were fricking horrible and let Troy manhandle our undersized team from start to finish. Third, that was the most lopsided conference game I've seen in a very long time. We had no answers for their length and physicality. Also, the first time this season I saw more effort on defense from an opponent than from us. The new coach will have his work cut out for him.
Rough game. Hard to believe how the refs called nothing. We did not react to it. Troy did. They were football physical. Actual blocking. We didn’t respond. Maybe can’t. Poor shooting especially at start of game hurt. Continued all game unfortunately.
Coach Z was clearly frustrated.
My first time leaving real early.
I applaud the players for at least putting forth the effort, but we will have to start from scratch once the new coach is hired. And I'm talking about everything. The mindset, the expectations, the mission to get our fans back through community outreach, the NIL effort, the marketing.... everything.
I went to the game last night. It was only my second game this season and 4th in the last three years. Our guys are still playing hard and trying to compete, but it is obvious that we do not have the talent and physicality to challenge anywhere close for a championship. I think the freshman (Evans) has some potential for development into a good player, but other than him, I'm not sure if any of the others have much more upside potential. Sorry to say it, but our boys were manhandled by Troy!
It is way past time to lay a new foundation and re-build from the ground up.
I'll disagree (not totally) about the defense. UL turned them over 17 times and, with exception of the times Troy beat them on the fast break (this is where I agree), we usually made them miss their first shot. And, everyone knew Troy's ability to ORB would put the Cajuns at a big disadvantage.
The officiating was deplorable. Not only from a calling fouls (or not) standpoint. Their lack of consistency was appalling. And, so was their clock management. They put :20 on the shot clock after a turnover. (with a signal) which should have been :30.
And, they called a media timeout at the eight minute mark. I took a commercial break and then they decided it wasn't a media time out. I missed a couple of Mo's free throws. THEN, after we scored, Z called time out with less than eight to go. That's an automatic media time out. But the Crew Chief called it a :30. And it took for a lot of people yelling media (and the media coordinator who was standing at the scorers table giving the signal before he finally got it right. That's the closest I've ever come to getting a technical foul called on me.
The whole game was a horrible basketball game experience. Both teams shot horribly.
The Cajuns simply do not know how or do not box out at all to get rebounds. They allowed so many 2nd and 3rd shots.
The officiating was absolutely terrible(thought someone was going to get killed) and there was no crowd in an empty huge building.
MAKE CAJUNS BASKETBALL GREAT AGAIN.
Glad I didn't lose sleep over that.Quote:
Originally Posted by UL_Cajuns
Beyond the blocking out issue, some of our guys have very slow reaction times on the glass. They have a hard time figuring out which way a potential miss is going to bounce and they are caught flat footed at times as a result. Basketball is a game in which you have to make decisions in a nano second all the while giving maximum effort. A facet of the game many football/diamond sports fans who have not played basketball have a hard time appreciating. Our players take too long to make that decision and often times it is too late by the time they do make a decision as the ball is then in the opponents hands. Reaction time is an anate trait and there is very little coaching can do about it other than to recruit guys who have it.Quote:
Originally Posted by UL_Cajuns
This is one of the most polite quotes in the history of RP. Well done sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajunsmike
I listened to you guys on the radio & agree wholeheartedly. Wednesday night in the Sunbelt might be worse than Saturday. If Eric would have been on the radio instead of TV, he probably would have been tossed! It was absolutely awful, Keith Gill should take some action.Quote:
Originally Posted by JayWalker
Troy walked constantly on driving the basket and they would not call it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ragin50
Keith Gill was hired to make us a better basketball conference. We have gotten worse every year in the play on the court and SBC Officiating has gotten worse just went we thought it couldn't get any worse.
Not why we lost, but it was terrible officiating. Troy would agree.
Has Keith Gill given up on basketball like UL did for 15 years under Marlin Mediocrity?
Jay, do you know the reasoning behind scheduling Wed games? Feel like I’m seeing a few more around the league even when not televised.Quote:
Originally Posted by JayWalker
Know the main point of Thurs/Sat league play is travel $$ saved, but getting better officials for the weekday game was/is a good byproduct.
Have to agree with everyone on the officiating. That was one of the worst officiated basketball games I have ever seen and I have seen many, many games. Complete clown show, the Sun Belt should be embarrassed with that crew's performance. Even with that, Troy was the better team and took advantage of the physical play that was allowed.
We did hustle on defense, just not to the same level that I saw from Troy. They were relentless, especially with the full court press that caused multiple TO's. The refs allowing for the physicality played right into their hands and gave them a distinct advantage defensively.Quote:
Originally Posted by JayWalker
I caught some of radio broadcasts. Dawson added a nice touch. It would be nice to have both guys on every broadcast. I know finances and schedules make it tough for that to occurQuote:
Originally Posted by ragin50
If the visiting team has to travel over a certain number of miles for their Saturday game, they get an extra travel day.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunSID