LA vs WKU

[douglas]

Right, but complaining about that wouldn't normally cause the WKU coach to go nuts, or Marlin to go nuts on the WKU coach, would it?

i watched the replay a few times and it looks like marlin said a few choice and deserving words to kick it into overdrive, its a tight shot on marlin though so i cant see any action from across the centerline to see if it was provoked. i for one hope it wasn't provoked and bob was on the offensive, i like me some fightin words.

[zephyr]

From what I saw...wku coach either said something or made a gesture to marlin as marlin was telling the ref something about the timeout. Marlin was approaching the ref making his case and he was turning to go back towards our bench when he abruptly turned toward wku coach. So something he heard or saw set him off.

According to Jay, he mentioned that Ray Harper had spent all night on the court which is supposed to be against the rules that the officials were supposed to really clamp down on this year. According to Jay, he didn't remember Harper ever being told to get off the court once all night and apparently, this is sort of taboo when you do this on someone else's court where you would expect to get protected if you are the home team. Then, Harper runs out on the court while their guy is in the air with the ball and its out of his hands when they issue the T.O. Marlin did not take too kindly to him running onto the court and after he mentioned this to Harper and was telling the official, Harper lost it himself and his thug assistant coaches started talking ____.

[cajundiehard]

I watched the DVR... Ball was stolen BEFORE the whistle blew for the time-out. Pretty obvious. And the Cajuns did have a 3 on 1 that would have (hopefully) ended with a dunk and a 4-point game. Oh well. We'll never know.

[Ragin4U]

Remember both EP and Shawn are still young.
Shepard has a torn meniscus. Prob out rest of season

[CajunEXPRESS]

Young, young? EP is a third year starter, and Long sat out a year as a red shirt transfer. Long should be a junior, and by age EP an overaged sophomore just as he is an underaged junior. Neither could be called young in years or experience.

[Turbine]

Young, young? EP is a third year starter, and Long sat out a year as a red shirt transfer. Long should be a junior, and by age EP an overaged sophomore just as he is an underaged junior. Neither could be called young in years or experience.

Combined they have 4 years (total) of on court D1 experience.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Not IMO, they both played most of the current season, so Long has three years of practice, and the bulk of two seasons playing. He made all conference as a red shirt freshman last year. EP a similar thing, and played for the USA, he has plenty of game time experience.

We are not young in those two positions by any reasonable understanding of 'young' in college sports.

[CajunFan3406]

Young, young? EP is a third year starter, and Long sat out a year as a red shirt transfer. Long should be a junior, and by age EP an overaged sophomore just as he is an underaged junior. Neither could be called young in years or experience.

By age EP would be an average age sophomore. His birthday is during the basketball season. He is about to turn 20.

[CrazyCajun]

Not IMO, they both played most of the current season, so Long has three years of practice, and the bulk of two seasons playing. He made all conference as a red shirt freshman last year. EP a similar thing, and played for the USA, he has plenty of game time experience.

We are not young in those two positions by any reasonable understanding of 'young' in college sports.

Bryant,Moore and lazarre are seniors, davenport, brown and Rimmer are juniors. We aren't young. Some will go to the end of the earth to defend this coach.

Gary has 1 junior and the rest are freshman and sophomores. That's young, look what he is doing in year 2 with a traditionally horrible program outside of a couple years.

[Just1More]

Not IMO, they both played most of the current season, so Long has three years of practice, and the bulk of two seasons playing. He made all conference as a red shirt freshman last year. EP a similar thing, and played for the USA, he has plenty of game time experience.

We are not young in those two positions by any reasonable understanding of 'young' in college sports.

Both of them "play young" and probably always will as Cajuns. Neither one acts like an "elder player". Neither one gets in the grill of his own team mates and uses body language, much less verbal, to get "the young" to follow. They are both excellent role players. I'm not sure if it's a deficiency in Marlin or not, but he still makes me think of a dad that gave the keys to the old truck to his sons, but never allowed them to feel like they could take it out in the country and tear ____ up... without feeling like he was watching and criticizing.

Marlin is a good/great Xs and Os teacher, as I observe it. He needs to give one or two players the rights to be a badass when a game shift is needed. I felt like WKU played controlled basketball, but they are allowed to have attitude on the floor... with each other. I don't see an easy launch of attitude by our players with Marlin in the room. He needs to ease up on that front, and allow some alpha males, other than himself, be an alpha with the ball.

IMO... Marlin will always have a "young team".

[Turbine]

Bryant,Moore and lazarre are seniors, davenport, brown and Rimmer are juniors. We aren't young. Some will go to the end of the earth to defend this coach.

Gary has 1 junior and the rest are freshman and sophomores. That's young, look what he is doing in year 2 with a traditionally horrible program outside of a couple years.

Oh! He was attacking the coach? I didn't pick up on that.

I thought Express was saying Long and Payton were not young.

He is right experience wise, they have 4 years between them.

[Just1More]

Bryant,Moore and lazarre are seniors, davenport, brown and Rimmer are juniors. We aren't young. Some will go to the end of the earth to defend this coach.

Gary has 1 junior and the rest are freshman and sophomores. That's young, look what he is doing in year 2 with a traditionally horrible program outside of a couple years.

But they always say, "girls mature faster than boys"!