MBB Final Louisiana 64, Georgia Southern 65

[zephyr]

Marlin will retire regardless of what happens this year. I think Maggard will ask him to ride off into the sunset

I'm sorry but I don't buy that either. I want it to happen badly but don't have faith that it will be that easy.

[zephyr]

And for as much as the game has changed and we have all these metrics about shooting more outside shots and all the ideas that philosophy says wins games, its interesting to look at the stats thus far for the league. We are the 3rd best 3 pt shooting team in the league, one of the best rebounding teams in the league as well as a decent defensive team statistically. However, as you can imagine, what is killing us is we are one of the worst in TO margin and last in assist/turnover ratio which tells you how bad our guard play has been outside of some outside shooting.

[ragin50]

And for as much as the game has changed and we have all these metrics about shooting more outside shots and all the ideas that philosophy says wins games, its interesting to look at the stats thus far for the league. We are the 3rd best 3 pt shooting team in the league, one of the best rebounding teams in the league as well as a decent defensive team statistically. However, as you can imagine, what is killing us is we are one of the worst in TO margin and last in assist/turnover ratio which tells you how bad our guard play has been outside of some outside shooting.

You didn't mention foul shooting, which did us in once again last night. That is inexcusable, whatever the reason.

[JMV JustMyView]

At least we can look forward to baseball and softball season soon.

[zephyr]

You didn't mention foul shooting, which did us in once again last night. That is inexcusable, whatever the reason.

You're right and I meant to as we are the second worst FT shooting team in the conference. Actually, the whole point of my post and I missed part of it was that the things you normally associate with success we are doing Ok in but FT shooting and turnovers (guard play in particular) are doing us in.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Im sure all 200 fans that were at the game may never go back. Express did you make the game?

The games are a real ordeal for Mrs Express. I never leave her alone for half a day that a Lafayette game would require.

Additionally I’ve decided buying tickets to this is giving a false impression to Maggard. So no I’ve pretty much become a tv fan, and that’s sad.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Check the media guide. The Cajuns have never sold out the dome. Nor have we ever consistently “packed” the dome. Overall, the crowds have gotten smaller thru the years. The past two years are Covid years so PART of the decline is directly related to that. I know multiple season ticket holders that are Covid absent.

Now would the crowd size maybe stabilize, yes. But the vast majority of the fans with basketball in their blood are from the Blackham era and they’re dying off. And nothing was done along the decades of decline to stop this, or at least control what we could.

Change is needed, and it’s not just coaches.

I want to be optimistic but from the football staff turnover to major cogs in RCAF leaving to even the soccer coach bailing and even SLU coming in our parish and hosting a SB tournament at a time we normally do, we got issues.

We had multiple games under Marty and Jesse that were 8500 plus games. I’m not sure Bob ever had one that reached that number.

Read the top ten. They’re pretty good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajundome

None included a Marlin game.

[UL_Cajuns]

We had multiple games under Marty and Jesse that were 8500 plus games. I’m not sure Bob ever had one that reached that number.

Read the top ten. They’re pretty good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajundome

None included a Marlin game.

That WKU game in the dome in 2003 was one the greatest basketball atmospheres that I have been to in my life. Although we lost it was amazing.

[shof]

Apologies if already mentioned, but it’s mind boggling that this team can’t make a FG in the last 3-5 minutes of the game!!

[Duggie35]

This team could get away without making a FG in the last few minutes of a game if they could just shoot 60% from the free throw line!!! Between turnovers and poor FT shooting, this team has no chance of winning any close games.