TCU -18 vs Louisiana Basketball

[Turbine]

I think the problem is a contractual obligation (with Learfield?) to have a certain number of home games, which beco es difficult or imposible to meet some years if we do 2 for 1s. Not sure about that, but i seem to recall havingseen something about that earlier.

That can be offset by doing a nopay home, home, road series vs teams they normally would not travel to.

[moorecajun]

Turb, I know your just trying to make a joke but he actually stayed in school here for another 2 years after giving up his scholarship and got a degree. I’m assuming he is playing as a grad transfer now and I was surprised to see it as well.

I did not know that; I am happy for him as I'm sure he really wanted to get on the court again.

[cajuns80]

I did not see the game last night but from what I've seen from Dou thus far, he's going to help us tremendously inside in regards to defending the paint and rim and rebounding. I heard he was doing a lot more ball handling last night but I hadn't seen that from him up to this point. I think what you saw from him was someone trying to do too much and considering the current healthy talent we have on this team right now, there could be worse things to have.

You haven't watched a game this year. It's ok.

[zephyr]

You haven't watched a game this year. It's ok.

Watched both before the TCU game. It's Ok though. You're ____ed. The funny thing is he's been one of our better players thus far. We have bigger problems on this team.

[zephyr]

I'm not arguing that. I'm saying, we played the same amount of bodies.
But in truth, our biggest contributors this year played the most minutes, excluding Russell, who apparently is injury prone.

I'm not out here crushing Marlin today. Just talking about the game.

We've compared Marlin to Rickey Bustle in terms of the parallels in their programs. I think an even better comparison is Jason Garrett of the Dallas Cowboys. Bustle had such limited resources and had to deal with the Fossil. Garrett has everything at his fingertips and just teases enough to want to keep him around.

[RaginDave]

Watched both before the TCU game. It's Ok though. You're ____ed. The funny thing is he's been one of our better players thus far. We have bigger problems on this team.

I personally watched most of the Loyola game/part of the McNeese game and all of the TCU game.

My take on Gueye is that he pretty solid vs lesser opponents, but he showed vs better competition he is going to struggle. I think by seasons end he will be a solid SBC type player, but when he is going up against better teams he is going to look like he did against vs TCU.

[cajuns80]

Watched both before the TCU game. It's Ok though. You're ____ed. The funny thing is he's been one of our better players thus far. We have bigger problems on this team.

LOL THAT IS THE WHOLE ISSUE. HE IS ONE OF THE BETTER PLAYERS. Oh he looked good against a NAIA school. I'd hope so

[zephyr]

I personally watched most of the Loyola game/part of the McNeese game and all of the TCU game.

My take on Gueye is that he pretty solid vs lesser opponents, but he showed vs better competition he is going to struggle. I think by seasons end he will be a solid SBC type player, but when he is going up against better teams he is going to look like he did against vs TCU.

Again, I did not see the TCU game but have talked to several people who are big fans who watched it. My understanding is he was trying to do too much. They said he had the ball in his hands way more than he had in the previous games. Is it possible Marlin saw a matchup he liked with Dou and wanted to see if they could exploit it? I would hope he is patrolling the lane more often than not and hitting the boards because he's appeared to be our most athletic front court guy and most aggressive which is where we could use him.

[Hatch]

Again, I did not see the TCU game but have talked to several people who are big fans who watched it. My understanding is he was trying to do too much. They said he had the ball in his hands way more than he had in the previous games. Is it possible Marlin saw a matchup he liked with Dou and wanted to see if they could exploit it? I would hope he is patrolling the lane more often than not and hitting the boards because he's appeared to be our most athletic front court guy and most aggressive which is where we could use him.

I think Tirus Smith is the guy whose main roll will be to patrol the lane and crash the boards. Gueye is being forced into that roll in the meantime but I think he is naturally more of a stretch 4. He has shown the ability to knock down some outside shots as well as make some very nice passes from the perimeter to guards cutting to the basket. I really hope to see Gueye and Smith on the floor at the same time soon and see what they can do.

[oldwiseone33]

When is Smith going to be back?

[Cajunsmike]

I think the problem is a contractual obligation (with Learfield?) to have a certain number of home games, which beco es difficult or imposible to meet some years if we do 2 for 1s. Not sure about that, but i seem to recall havingseen something about that earlier.

We are required to have 14 home games every year as part of the Learfield contract. We have 15 this year because we have 20 conference games, not 18 as last season. Also, previously agreed to contracts called for both SLU and McNeese to come here this season. The 14 home game requirement may be a factor in the reluctance to do 2 for 1 deals.

[Cajunsmike]

Again, I did not see the TCU game but have talked to several people who are big fans who watched it. My understanding is he was trying to do too much. They said he had the ball in his hands way more than he had in the previous games. Is it possible Marlin saw a matchup he liked with Dou and wanted to see if they could exploit it? I would hope he is patrolling the lane more often than not and hitting the boards because he's appeared to be our most athletic front court guy and most aggressive which is where we could use him.

Dou had the ball more in the second half simply due to the fact that Russell was not available. Julien also missed a lot of time in the second half due to having been poked in the eye.