Cajun basketball

[Zeebart21]

The very young team is a product that Marin created. He has recruited three classes of players. This team could have 4 seniors and 2 juniors and 2 sophomores all experienced players. Whose to say he won't keep this same pattern of loosing players? He already lost one. When do we hold him responsible for his team.

It would be great if he had 4 seniors, 2 juniors and 2 sophomores that weren't Mommas boys..Time to cut the apron strings from Momma and your lame assed Select coaches.. Nikita turned out to be the biggest turd in the punchbowl you could imagine, too..Now go stroke your boys behind the ears...tell em everything will be alright.. You don't have to worry about your attitude cause Momma will make it alright.

Z

[22Cajun]

Z- you are hilarious. You have no clue but funny any way. Those kids are first good kids, second were NEVER asked by anyone in athletic department why and they never cared to find out and third and foremost Nikita did not make them leave Marlin did but hey blame them if it makes you believe he is gonna fix it. Problem is the IT is at his door. He is the HEAD coach, he hired Nikita. He had final say on recruits. He keeps loosing players. Good, bad, mommas boys, whatever makes you happy all are MARLIN approved and signed/hired so as it goes he is where it all comes back.

[Turbine]

I hope Marlin can recruit players like Kevin Figaro.

Figaro was willing to be a defensively minded player -for his first few years- so Andrew Toney could shine.

Then for his senior year Fig was the #14 leading scorer in the country.

Figaro's example was the opposite mindset of what you often see from kids signing out of high school.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Turbine, blaming kids of today is pure crap. You win and lose with the kids of your era, not the late 20th century that also looked far more greedy and self serving than those of the mid 20th century, who were not as good as those from the early 20th century.

It goes back forever, way back when I was young, blah, blah, blah.

Marlin has to win with the players he recruits. So regardless of whose feet you want to lay the blame on, he is responsible for coaches, and players he hired and signed. That is HIS job to make good decisions on coaches and players, not just x & o, not just motivation and game day decisions. Many games are won before the tip off, before the first day of fall practice.

It really is kind of stupid to blame the players who are not here, after all according to so many they were not good citizens anyway.

[wgwillis]

Everyone of you misses the point which is Marlin has a raise. Isn't that what's important. That makes him the highest paid basketball coach we have ever had. Therefore, we must be getting what we are paying for - inexcusable losses. Logic would state that if we want to win we should pay less. I wonder what Jessie Evans is doing? Can you imagine what would happen if we could hire someone like the Butler coach. Beat Indiana are you kidding me! Skip Posser must not have been that smart!!!

[CajunRed]

EVERYTHING will come down to our ability to get some additional talent in here. It isn't a secret as to why we were successful in certain past years. Players like Figaro, O. Green, D. Mitchell, Brooks, Hamilton, Brown, Beene, Poole, (of course) Toney...and many more...provided the talent for us to succeed.

Name the sport here...basketball, football, baseball, tennis...if we get the players, we will win. If not, we will be mediocre. Period.

[Cajunsmike]

EVERYTHING will come down to our ability to get some additional talent in here. It isn't a secret as to why we were successful in certain past years. Players like Figaro, O. Green, D. Mitchell, Brooks, Hamilton, Brown, Beene, Poole, (of course) Toney...and many more...provided the talent for us to succeed.

Name the sport here...basketball, football, baseball, tennis...if we get the players, we will win. If not, we will be mediocre. Period.

The team lost confidence in their shooting as the game against Robert Morris progressed. Plenty of open looks were there which the guys simply could not knock down. Injury to Kevin Brown may be a factor. Recall he scored 14 points at Michigan State which helped us play well in that game. The guys we have now are trying to hard and thinking too much before they let the shot go. They just need to let their shots flow naturally off their hands.

[CajunRed]

Turbine, blaming kids of today is pure crap. You win and lose with the kids of your era, not the late 20th century that also looked far more greedy and self serving than those of the mid 20th century, who were not as good as those from the early 20th century.

It goes back forever, way back when I was young, blah, blah, blah.

Marlin has to win with the players he recruits. So regardless of whose feet you want to lay the blame on, he is responsible for coaches, and players he hired and signed. That is HIS job to make good decisions on coaches and players, not just x & o, not just motivation and game day decisions. Many games are won before the tip off, before the first day of fall practice.

It really is kind of stupid to blame the players who are not here, after all according to so many they were not good citizens anyway.

Yep...and yep.

[CajunEXPRESS]

The team lost confidence in their shooting as the game against Robert Morris progressed. Plenty of open looks were there which the guys simply could not knock down. Injury to Kevin Brown may be a factor. Recall he scored 14 points at Michigan State which helped us play well in that game. The guys we have now are trying to hard and thinking too much before they let the shot go. They just need to let their shots flow naturally off their hands.

If only it were this simple?

Mike we are allowing an alarming percentage of made three point shots, not only not making them. He, Marlin, was supposed to address this for the last three games. Somehow it is not being fixed.

[Cajunsmike]

If only it were this simple?

Mike we are allowing an alarming percentage of made three point shots, not only not making them. He, Marlin, was supposed to address this for the last three games. Somehow it is not being fixed.

No doubt we have to do a better job of defending the three point shot as we have given up 27 of them in the last two games. In last night's game, Robert Morris actually ran plays to get three point shooters open deep. Plenty of high picks were used. We have to do better at both knocking down open shots and not allowing so many open looks from the perimeter. Perhaps more talent is needed in order to do both.