Cajuns Sign Big Man But

[CajunEXPRESS]

Hopefully with more inside depth, we will play at a faster pace next season. Very few teams in basketball anywhere press consistently anymore as teams have learned how to attack it. VCU made a living at pressing the last few years. Trey Burke of Michigan carved them up easily in the NCAA tournament when they tried that. Tournament was hard to watch this year with so many teams not being able to score 50 points. College basketball in general is not played at the high level of years past. You need your big guy to guard the basket when you press consistently and we were always in danger of Long getting in foul trouble to do that consistently. We will have more guys inside to take fouls next year so I expect we will press more often.

Louisville used a controlled press and won a national championship.

The Shockers collapsed from the pressure and were in the process of collapsing when OSU went into a full press.

The Cajuns do better when they are involved in full, and limited presses. We struggle in a set man to man where the opponent prods, and finds weaknesses.

[Cajunsmike]

As I said earlier, now that we will have more inside depth I expect we will play at a faster pace and use more pressure defense. We planned to do so at the beginning of this past season. The injury to Brown and the concern about Long's four trouble limited our ability to use that plan. Still, we were one of the top scoring teams in the league this past season. Unfortunately we were near the bottom as far as stopping scoring. Letting teams have too many offensive rebounds because of our limitations inside caused that problem. With three new inside guys, odds are we will have more means to limit those next season.

[Just1More]

As I said earlier, now that we will have more inside depth I expect we will play at a faster pace and use more pressure defense. We planned to do so at the beginning of this past season. The injury to Brown and the concern about Long's four trouble limited our ability to use that plan. Still, we were one of the top scoring teams in the league this past season. Unfortunately we were near the bottom as far as stopping scoring. Letting teams have too many offensive rebounds because of our limitations inside caused that problem. With three new inside guys, odds are we will have more means to limit those next season.

Just plain logic. Me likes.