Pre Season Basketball Notes

[talktomewillis]

GSU and who? UTA? Nah. GaSo? Nah. ULM? Lol

Georgia Southern will be every bit as good as last year with Tookie Brown and Ike Smith coming back. UTA will take a step back.

Go ahead and laugh at ULM. They will be vastly improved this season and could easily finish in the top four of the league.

Also, watch out for App State. They were the 5 seed last year, their best player in Shabazz returns and they have two guys from good schools who sat out last year who are now eligible.

[Million$Mullet]

Georgia Southern will be every bit as good as last year with Tookie Brown and Ike Smith coming back. UTA will take a step back.

Go ahead and laugh at ULM. They will be vastly improved this season and could easily finish in the top four of the league.

Also, watch out for App State. They were the 5 seed last year, their best player in Shabazz returns and they have two guys from good schools who sat out last year who are now eligible.

I will laugh at them. It doesn’t change the fact that the sunbelt is still a terrible basketball conference.

[Cajunsmike]

I will laugh at them. It doesn’t change the fact that the sunbelt is still a terrible basketball conference.

I imagine you are using hyperbole with the word “terrible”. Last year league was 18th of over 30 conferences and year before they were 13th. I understand terrible is a very subjective term. Personally I would say terrible is in the 20’s. Others may say anything outside the Top 10 is terrible. I suspect league will be in the mid to lower teens again this year.

[Turbine]

I will laugh at them. It doesn’t change the fact that the sunbelt is still a terrible basketball conference.

"Terrible" is obviously unacceptable, and unacceptable can fall anywhere you deem, but a declaration of terrible has to fall in the bottom half to be acceptable.

[Million$Mullet]

I imagine you are using hyperbole with the word “terrible”. Last year league was 18th of over 30 conferences and year before they were 13th. I understand terrible is a very subjective term. Personally I would say terrible is in the 20’s. Others may say anything outside the Top 10 is terrible. I suspect league will be in the mid to lower teens again this year.

College basketball as a whole is pretty bad these days Mike. We ran through the conference last year and before we lost to GSU, the average margin of victory was around 15-20 points. I could be wrong but I don’t think any of our conference games were decided by less than 10 points other than the conference tournament loss.

[Cajunsmike]

College basketball as a whole is pretty bad these days Mike. We ran through the conference last year and before we lost to GSU, the average margin of victory was around 15-20 points. I could be wrong but I don’t think any of our conference games were decided by less than 10 points other than the conference tournament loss.

I think we had one game against Texas State that was relatively close. Of course that is because they play a patient style. I won't argue that the state of the college game is not at it's best. When you use the word terrible however, you are comparing it against other schools, not history.

[Cajunsmike]

I listened to the interview with Marlin posted in the other thread. He said redshirting Julien would be evaluated after this semester. I really hope they can see enough production from Marquetti and Davis in the early non conference games to where they don't see the need to pull that redshirt going into conference play.

I heard today doctors recommend a 12 month recovery time from this injury. That date won't arrive until February. That now makes me convinced he won't play this year regardless of how quickly he seems to progress.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Actually college basketball is better than ever, except for the very top. And that's because Duke, and other elite programs are losing their best players to the NBA sooner than ever.

[ManAboutTown]

Actually college basketball is better than ever, except for the very top. And that's because Duke, and other elite programs are losing their best players to the NBA sooner than ever.

Not sure if serious...

[CajunJeaux]

Actually college basketball is better than ever, except for the very top. And that's because Duke, and other elite programs are losing their best players to the NBA sooner than ever.

Who else can’t wait to see man child Zion play this year for Duke?...

[Cajunfever]

The key for success this year will be PJ and JD. Our starting 5 will be among the best if not the best in the Sunbelt. Look for Russel and Miller to show great improvement. Both have worked extremely hard in the offseason.

[Cajunsmike]

The key for success this year will be PJ and JD. Our starting 5 will be among the best if not the best in the Sunbelt. Look for Russel and Miller to show great improvement. Both have worked extremely hard in the offseason.

I agree the three year juniors will be key. Hayes will contribute immediately.