Cajun basketball

[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.

[DocCajun]

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!!!

Perhaps we are paying for what he will do because I just don't see how what he has done and is doing warrants that raise...

[Turbine]

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.

I agree 100%

I still hope Marlin can recruit players like Kevin Figaro. I think they are out there.

[jumboragncajun]

I remember Marlins first year, he made a comment at his luncheon about how the kids across the league in the Sun-Belt are distinctively bigger and more athletic than what he saw in the Southland. If anyone saw the Middle Tennessee game, Holy Cow we look like a JV team compared them.

A few years ago, I looked at a team that had Travis Bureau, La'Ryan Gary, Tyren Johnson, Millsaps, Batiste and thinking DAM, these guys are so small compared to the Dwayne Mitchell, Orien Greene, Tiras Wade, Chris Cameron etc ...era.

Now, I look at Wronkowski, Elfrid, Shepperd, (insert pretty much any name here), and they are even smaller than Lee's long and lean bunch. Is it just me? I know the older you get, the high schoolers and college age kids look younger and smaller... but dam, Brad Boyd looks like a roided-up juice monkey compared to this bunch.

Just an observation.

[Parrott]

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!!!

Jessie Evans is now an assistant at Southeast Missouri State under ex-Arkansas State coach Dickey Nutt.

[wgwillis]

Jessie Evans is now an assistant at Southeast Missouri State under ex-Arkansas State coach Dickey Nutt.

Well, as far as I know the only thing he did wrong was want to go to San Francisco. Lets give him a call.

[BrockMeaux]

Well, as far as I know the only thing he did wrong was want to go to San Francisco. Lets give him a call.

I think he'd have difficulties in today's NCAA, especially at a school like UL (where he may not be able to get top-tier high school athletes), because of his reliance on JUCO/transfer players and the fact that under his watch, the classroom wasn't always a top priority for players. The APR would be a nightmare. Say what you will about Marlin (and even Robert Lee), but their kids took care of business in the classroom. Even those who left had grades in order before leaving.