MBB Final: Louisiana 56, Houston 71

[SlickRick]

Go back further, George Almons blocking Hakeem. Probably one of the best pound for pound athletes I've seen wear a MBB uni at UL. Lost to UH and Phi Slama Jamma by 1 @ UH. I think UH might of been ranked #1 at the time.

I was at that game! Was working on Houston and went to the game with a couple of coworkers who were UH fans. They were impressed!

We had the last shot to win the game and it was Almons getting to the run for a layup, but blocky by the Dream!

I had the opportunity to play a couple of rounds of golf with Clyde Drexler. I told him about being at that game and he paused a second and said "they were good". That was pretty cool.

[SlickRick]

Go back further, George Almons blocking Hakeem. Probably one of the best pound for pound athletes I've seen wear a MBB uni at UL. Lost to UH and Phi Slama Jamma by 1 @ UH. I think UH might of been ranked #1 at the time.

I was at that game! Was working on Houston and went to the game with a couple of coworkers who were UH fans. They were impressed!

We had the last shot to win the game and it was Almons getting to the run for a layup, but blocky by the Dream!

I had the opportunity to play a couple of rounds of golf with Clyde Drexler. I told him about being at that game and he paused a second and said "they were good". That was pretty cool.

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The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team fell behind early against Houston, and their comeback attempt wasn't enough in the 71-56 loss.

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[CajunEXPRESS]

Damn Slick you’re having a Groundhog Day

[moorecajun]

Damn Slick you’re having a Groundhog Day

[HoustonCajun]

Why isn’t Jones on the floor?

Why is Williams on the floor? He is terrible. Worse game I've seen Julien play. Garnett is a great shooter, but don't run plays to get him open. We were within 7 points with about 4 minutes to go, but shots wouldn't fall. Too many careless turnovers. No offensive rebounding killed us.

[HOUCajun]

UH arena is fantastic! Perfect size and not a bad seat in the house.
We payed $40 to park. Considering UH is In a terrible part of town I guess it’s smart/opportunistic on their part

[zephyr]

Why is Williams on the floor? He is terrible. Worse game I've seen Julien play. Garnett is a great shooter, but don't run plays to get him open. We were within 7 points with about 4 minutes to go, but shots wouldn't fall. Too many careless turnovers. No offensive rebounding killed us.

All interesting. Williams struggled a bit offensively as he is not a true PG and was unable to get into the lane to create off the dribble. He's not terrible though and we're going to rely on him in conference. You are correct, Julien didn't play that well and teams that are able to cut off his dribble to the basket have been effective in keeping him in check for which he starts to press and make more mistakes. I also saw something about his stats at home versus away. He is shooting horrible from the field on the road and has been completely opposite at home. He'll need to get more consistent moving forward to be successful in conference. Basketball IQ killed us. Garnett was on fire and I noted in the thread 3 times that he was wide open in transition for a great look at 3 and all were either misses or turnovers and they killed momentum. We are a turnover machine and that's been a constant regardless of caliber of team we've played. A big issue is we have too many bigs running the ball up the court off a defensive rebound which has led to a number of turnovers all year.

[CajunJeaux]

If Wesley is going to play, he HAS to be a Derek Fisher type player due to his size and knock down outside shots. If he can’t shoot from outside, defenses won’t be scared of him penetrating to the lane.

[MetryCajun]

This game was served up to us on a silver platter and we said no thanks. Houston was missing key players and played absolutely horrible basketball in the second half. Someone on this tread said we have athletes and not basketball players, I would question how many athletes we have. I would also question if most of these players have the physicality to play high end D1 basketball. I thought half the turnovers were due to physical domination and not poor decision making.
First time visiting their arena...really nice. Wish we had something that size.