Basketball game vs McNeese

[Hudsheen#Fired]

This years team is a has mid level Southland Conference talent. I won' be surprised if we are a .500 team this year. We don't have a big to protect the rim and get rebounds.

There is ALOT more talent on this team than that

[Balanced_view]

lots of freshmen mental mistakes to close out this game.... oh and missed FT's

[RaginScotsman]

Well. We won.

[Balanced_view]

the fact we gave up a wide open 3 point attempt when they were down 3 with less than 6 sec on the clock is discouraging, but to win is good, and a lot of learning can continue.

[ULvictory]

Glad we won. I’m feeling pretty apathetic right now.

[Jacob81]

Not the prettiest but we’re 2-0. Need to get some bodies back and more playing time.

[MetryCajun]

My grades.
UL: C-. Played short handed, but they had a couple of awful stretches of basketball in both halves. The beginning of the game was bad even by HS standards. Johnson played well and Russell got hot so that was nice. Julien reminds me of Bryce Washington. Hope he can be that third scorer.
McNeese: D. They look like a mediocre SLC team. If they were any good they would have been up by 25 in the first half. Respect their coach for not punching the refs as it was clear they were giving us the calls in the second half.
Refs: F. Basketball would be the least popular sport in the US if these guys called major games. Can we let the players play and not call every touch foul?

I will wait to make a judgement on the team until the end of the Calendar year, but this was not a great audition. It looks to me like the athleticism, shooting and rebounding are less than last year. I do not follow the program like I used to, but this looks like an underwhelming group and should give lots of fuel to the Marlin haters. The guys do play hard and seem to like each other, so maybe they can improve over the next few months.

[Cajunsmike]

This years team is a has mid level Southland Conference talent. I won' be surprised if we are a .500 team this year. We don't have a big to protect the rim and get rebounds.

We don't have one right now with the guys we are running out there. We will have one when Smith comes back and hopefully that is within the next week or so. Pretty sure he won't play at TCU. As far as tonight goes, first 15 minutes was simply a matter of not being able to make a shot or get to line. Last 5 minutes of first half and first 10 minutes of second half was a pretty good display of basketball by our guys. What happened in the last two minutes is something I have a hard time being able to explain and certainly won't try to excuse it. Turnovers when being pressed at crunch time just cannot happen and more practice time needs to be spent on that. It came down to making enough free throws to hold them off and that is a positive which may help in other games later in the year.

[ZoomZoom]

Well, the bright spot was only ten turnovers, abet two at crunch time.

McNeese's best player, Brown, couldn't wait his turn here and transferred to Lake Charles. For him, no victories against the team he left.

[CajunDreDog]

Final ❗️#GeauxCajuns ⚜️ pic.twitter.com/jpil9vEmbq

— Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns® Men's Basketball (@RaginCajunsMBB) November 10, 2019