LA vs. UT Arlington

[NickatNite]

Rhetorical, but how can you shoot better from the field than the FT line!? Does that ever happen? It almost came back to haunt them and Marlin didn't seem concerned on post game. "We'll shoot them better next game". Lets hope so Coach, cuz we're not good enough to build 20 point leads every night and hang on!! A lot of those misses came at the end, when we REALLY NEED to make them! Maybe we should put one of our own guys next to the FT shooter with a hand in his face! We apparently shoot contested shots better. Still, a good road win, something we haven't been able to do.

[BirdofParadise]

It seems we only notice free throws when we don't shoot them well. For instance, this team was shooting over 72% from the line in conference play until last night. Kevin Brown, who was 1-4, had been 17-17 in league play until that miss.

We missed 15 in the second half (40%) which is abysmal. But this does not happen every night. Not by a long shot.

[Just1More]

It seems we only notice free throws when we don't shoot them well. For instance, this team was shooting over 72% from the line in conference play until last night. Kevin Brown, who was 1-4, had been 17-17 in league play until that miss.

We missed 15 in the second half (40%) which is abysmal. But this does not happen every night. Not by a long shot.

I consider free throws kind of like extra points in football. They should all be made. It is only the missed ones that get my attention. But you are correct. We notice the missed ones.

[zephyr]

I consider free throws kind of like extra points in football. They should all be made. It is only the missed ones that get my attention. But you are correct. We notice the missed ones.

Well, you are typically considered to be a good free throw shooter if you hit 70%+, at least this is what our coach used to tell us. I'd say you wouldn't be around long if you hit 70% of your extra point attempts as a kicker. Free Throws are not nearly as easy as people think they are but we should be a more consistent team from the stripe to say the least, especially with a guard oriented team

[cajunfan337]

Look, I'm not going to discredit the hard fought effort of these men tonight. That's the kind of offensive juggernaut I like to see each night. What I CAN'T credit is Marlin in this. I'm sorry, but building 20+ point leads in a college game should NEVER get down to low single digits. And it damn sure shouldn't happen multiple times in one game. You have got to teach these kids how to go for the jugular and close this stuff out.

I feel like we lost 3-4 crucial games this year because of this issue. But the best part is, we know what it's going to take for us to win. Long & Payton doing their thing and then someone else stepping up. It seems like this formula makes us dominant.

Good road win by the team tonight, but we can't go to GSU or WKU and blow leads

[SlappyCajun]

Basketball is a game of runs. We made ours, they made theirs. UTA took Georgia State to overtime at Georgia State the other night.

Big leads evaporate in college basketball all the time. Especially, when you are playing a good team at their place.

[cajun4life]

Basketball is a game of runs. We made ours, they made theirs. UTA took Georgia State to overtime at Georgia State the other night.

Big leads evaporate in college basketball all the time. Especially, when you are playing a good team at their place.

UTA is not a good team. We are barely a good team. We can continue to spin it if we want to, but we are only good when we get a great game out of someone else beside the big two.

I have pretty much made up my mind that Marlin won't get the program back to the Fletcher/Evans era, but with Stove coming in next year and Peyton and Long we should win. Hopefully he can build something after next season when we will likely lose two great players.

[tetragrammaton]

Isn't building a good lead early part of what happens in basketball? For this very reason? Momentum can shift on a dime.

It is precisely how we have lost games this year. This time, we were on the right side of getting our points early enough to escape with a win.

I'm glad we were able to do that, and with 8 games left in conference, maybe we can keep it up.

[tetragrammaton]

One more thought.... we win 3 more games, we have our best seasons in the last decade. Just sayin'.

[Zeebart21]

One more thought.... we win 3 more games, we have our best seasons in the last decade. Just sayin'.

Just remember HUD took a 3-9 team and went 9-4 in his first year. Just sayin'.

And won a bowl game.