A couple of Long's fouls were completely his fault and avoidable. Sometimes you just let them score, especially if you are a scorer and a rebounder. Fant owns Long. I just do not see a fix for this mismatch.
Road issues, size issues, that is why it is absolutely imperative you win at home.
48 seconds left...EP pulls us to within one...do you take the last timeout? Hindsight is 20/20 and we had the full court press set up...but man...it just seems like slowing the game down right there would have done wonders.
WKU has a good beat writer. I have followed his tweets over the years. He seems to enjoy Lafayette when he is here:
He's pretty comical. A couple of his tweets at the end of the game:
@MrChadBishop · 15h
"Thirty seconds left, WKU somehow leading 70-67 and CHD going to the line. Elfrid Payton has done all he could to keep ULL in it."
@MrChadBishop · 15h
"WKU 75, ULL 72, five second left..... count the number of Cajuns on the floor...."
@MrChadBishop · 15h
"Payton misses 3 at the buzzer from the right sideline. It's my job to explain WKU wins... it becomes increasingly more difficult by the day."
Also had shooting issues last night. Very difficult to win when two of your main guys are 3 for 18 from the field. To win, we need three guys contributing offensively and last night we had only two in double figures. Basketball is a game in which effort cannot overcome the ball not going through the hoop. No one can question how hard the guys played last night as evidenced by their rebounding. Playing hard is not enough when the shots don't fall. Now I won't argue that playing on the road is a factor in the poor shooting nos.
Somehow poor shooting happens more often on the road, and not just to Cajuns.
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