Jay Hedgemen suspended

[VObserver]

Good comments there VO. We agree on the need to recruit more talent at guard. I will say Bryce needs to be more consistent. He missed several attempts near the goal on Saturday at Texas State. Many of his rebounds were gathering his own misses but he just could not finish.

Mike, I did not get to see the Texas State game, but even with a sub-par performance, Bryce had a double double. I agree that he does not finish as well as I would like, bur really no one in the Marlin era has been a strong finisher.

[Cajunsmike]

Mike, I did not get to see the Texas State game, but even with a sub-par performance, Bryce had a double double. I agree that he does not finish as well as I would like, bur really no one in the Marlin era has been a strong finisher.

We have not had a team that was good at finishing near the basket since the Jessie Evans era. Robert Lee's teams really struggled with that aspect of the game. I wonder if we are getting them strong enough in the off season.

[BirdofParadise]

Mike, I did not get to see the Texas State game, but even with a sub-par performance, Bryce had a double double. I agree that he does not finish as well as I would like, bur really no one in the Marlin era has been a strong finisher.

He had a superb second half after going just 1-7 in the first half and missing three easy ones. All in all, he had a very good road trip.

[Boomer]

I guess I'm old school, but I would just like our outside shooters to follow their shots rather than stand in place looking at the ball (or get back on defense), or maybe when we're running a pick and roll to actually pass close enough to the screener to not give the defender space to pass between as well.

Also Old school and wrote this little pick poem ---Set the pick to the correct angle and side---Knees bent feet about shoulder width wide---cross you arms at your chest,Lady ???? protect your breast ( No ifs or buts, guys cover your nuts)---A long wait, a great fake, a sharp scrape, and a hard break----A great roll gets the best shot at the goal!!! Recently added the male protection part---but yea a lil old school!!!

[anhil8tor]

So I stated to him:
Braeden you are a good basketball player, but not Duke good
Braeden you are a good stundent in HS, but not Duke smart
Braeden your dad makes good money, but not Duke money

Moral of the story.........he will be going to UL.

Not to mention Duke's tuition is almost $50,000....

[RaginDave]

Not to mention Duke's tuition is almost $50,000....

Hence the quote.........

"Braeden your dad makes good money, but not Duke money"

[anhil8tor]

He is fantastic in working plays, defenses and motivating kids, but his in game decisions are questionable. That being said they are 18-5 this year, so he is doing something right. But of the 5 games he has lost he was severely outcoached in the second half of ball games. The opposing coaches made in game changes and we could not overcome those changes. He gets stuck playing zone when teams are killing us from 3 point land or we are going against a team with one superb player and fails to switch to the box and 1 or to man to man with our best defender on that player.

I've been on both sides and it sure is easier to coach or see things from the bleachers. That is where the assistants come in I believe.

[RaginDave]

I've been on both sides and it sure is easier to coach or see things from the bleachers. That is where the assistants come in I believe.

No doubt anhil8tor, you are correct. My son's coaches problem is that his assistants are volunteers and are not at every game, they are very inconsistant. He has 3 of them, but not on a regular basis.

Being on both sides of it, it is much easier to be on the sideline, rather than bench.

[Bigbuf]

So you think its okay that it'd be okay if the told his coach to go f himself??

Not ideally, no.

Come on now...not ideally???

Just another instance of this "message" board or you for that matter sticking their nose where it really doesnt belong.

If you have as much influence and access you say you have and you honestly think that it is OK for a college player to EVER disagree openly with a coach, I hope your have absolutely no contact with any players at UL. If the player has an issue, take it behind closed doors and curse, scream and do what ever it take to get it out, come up with a plan to fix the issue, then shake hands and move on.

Coach Robe is a highly respected member of the NCAA elite coaches and I would expect he would do just the same.

But from people that know more than I do about what happen, hell maybe even more than you, it seem the f you is not the reason for his suspension.

Maybe if the player would have followed the team and University rules he would not be suspended?

[jumboragncajun]

I do not believe the staff has issues with game preparation, motivation, or adjustments. An example of adjustments is the Little Rock game where the Trojans executed several plays in the first half to get layups as they were able to move Shawn Long away from the basket and there was no rim protector near the goal. In the second half of that game, the Trojans had very little of those due to adjustments the staff made at half.

I thought they still had some easy buckets in the second half. I asked one of our players a few days later why the hell they did not go to a zone when we just couldn't stop that and his response was "We are just not very good at zone defense."