Lost in Yesterday's Drama

[MetryCajun]

We had a basketball game at Alabama. Looks like our old bugaboo's came up again....poor shooting, end of game meltdown.

So far it looks like this team will be offensively challenged. We will have to ramp up the defensive intensity so we can get some easy baskets on the other end..

[CajunRed]

We played a VERY good Bama team on the road and lost. Not to make excuses, but its VERY difficult to win on the road... and we were trying to do so with a couple of weapons still out (or in Gradnigo's case, less than healthy). When Daigle is back and the two transfers are eligible, we will have a couple of more weapons to throw out there.

I would suspect that by the first game or so in January, a game like this would be much more winnable.

just my opinion.

[CajunKate]

I would agree with CajunRed. This team has potential once Gradnigo and Daigle are healthy and playing full bore again. I am not a fan of Lee at this point, but we'll see what happens.

[TuffGuy84]

_ We played a VERY good Bama team on the road and lost. Not to make excuses, but its VERY difficult to win on the road... and we were trying to do so with a couple of weapons still out (or in Gradnigo's case, less than healthy). When Daigle is back and the two transfers are eligible, we will have a couple of more weapons to throw out there.

I would suspect that by the first game or so in January, a game like this would be much more winnable.

just my opinion. _

I do not call that a home court advantage. There were no more than 1000 people in that building, if we were ever gonna have a game without a home court advantage, this was it.

[Cajunsmike]

We had a basketball game at Alabama. Looks like our old bugaboo's came up again....poor shooting, end of game meltdown.

So far it looks like this team will be offensively challenged. We will have to ramp up the defensive intensity so we can get some easy baskets on the other end..

You have a very short but astute analysis of yesterday's game in that post. Your comment about needing easy baskets cause by defense is also spot in. I am hoping Adeife can help with that once conference play starts.

[Clutch0364]

It wasn't lost in the drama I was trying to pretend it didn't happen lol

[ULtimateCajun]

I was actually following it on espn gamecast and we were with them until about 7 or 5 minutes left in the game when they busted it open to a 16 point margin. This team doesn't seem to finish very well aside from the ORU game. If we could just play 35 minute games we'll be alright. haha

[RaginFan2]

_ I was actually following it on espn gamecast and we were with them until about 7 or 5 minutes left in the game when they busted it open to a 16 point margin. This team doesn't seem to finish very well aside from the ORU game. If we could just play 35 minute games we'll be alright. haha _

I listened on the radio online. For the most part we seemed to match up well physically at least until Barr fouled out, but horrible shooting killed us. Both our FG and FT shooting were abysmal. We won't win too many games shooting like that. Most of the other stats were pretty even for about 2/3 of the game. That last 7 or 8 minutes we seemed to go down too easily. It sounded like we were rebounding fairly well until later in the game. Defensively, again we seemed to do fairly well until later on. The shooting woes are a major problem especially since we seem to have trouble running an effective half-court game.

[ULtimateCajun]

What I want to know is why Courtney Wallace only played 3 minutes? He seemed to play well against McNeese giving Barr a rest. We don't even try to work the ball down low. I'm no coach but if we work the ball down low every once in awhile, that might free up Bureau for more shots. And Tyren Johnson only had 1 point. Another puzzling thing is Lago and McCoy split time down the middle (18 minutes). Lago had 4 turnovers to McCoy's 0. I think McCoy should get the majority of the minutes at point. I've never understood coach Lee's starting rosters or his substitution habits. From the games i've actually seen, the offense runs so much better with McCoy yet Lago starts every game and splits the time.