Cajuns Basketball

[Old-DaBoot]

Don’t even have one of our starters on the team playing yet . Without injury this team is sweet 16 pre-built.

We are LOUISIANA

Also, great second-half adjustments by coach MARLIN against Drake , too bad the referees didn’t help too much

[Old-DaBoot]

Don’t even have one of our starters on the team playing yet . Without injury this team is sweet 16 pre-built.

We are LOUISIANA

Also, great second-half adjustments by coach MARLIN against Drake , too bad the referees didn’t help too much

Also,# 18 can play basketball. Could’ve added to the team, almost made that happen, fingers crossed for the future.

[JMV JustMyView]

Don’t even have one of our starters on the team playing yet . Without injury this team is sweet 16 pre-built.

We are LOUISIANA

Also, great second-half adjustments by coach MARLIN against Drake , too bad the referees didn’t help too much

How is the depth on the team this year?

[Cajunsmike]

Don’t even have one of our starters on the team playing yet . Without injury this team is sweet 16 pre-built.

We are LOUISIANA

Also, great second-half adjustments by coach MARLIN against Drake , too bad the referees didn’t help too much

No matter how hard a team plays, you can't overcome shooting 15 percent from three. Basketball is a simple game at times. The team that puts it in the basket at the highest rate usually wins. You can win at 25 percent from three if you outrebound your opponent, make your free throws, and limit turnovers. We did some things well yesterday but we had too many turnovers to overcome the bad shooting. I understand the frustration with officials. Cajuns did not even get to shoot a 1 and 1 when they were fouled with less than two minutes to go. Drake must have really played good defense to have so few fouls at that point.

[JMV JustMyView]

Also,# 18 can play basketball. Could’ve added to the team, almost made that happen, fingers crossed for the future.

Wait your saying CF #18 could have pulled an Elijah McGuire playing 2 sports? What role would he have taken on? The role Carter had as spiritual leader and all around great guy with a tremendous work ethic.

[Cajunsmike]

How is the depth on the team this year?

Depth is inconsistent but improving. It was a factor in our favor in the SMU win while it was encouraging to see both Chancellor White and Isaiah Richards score a little more yesterday. In the wins against Tech and SMU, Jalen Dalcourt hit some big shots to help pull those games out. Jalen struggled yesterday. Joe Charles is a key guy off the bench as many or our forced turnovers come when he is on the court. His defense helped lead a comeback yesterday but he also struggled shooting the ball. Michael Thomas is the backup point guard. He has had some big plays on both ends for us at times but he has also struggled with getting caught dribbling too much and turnovers as well. We are playing 10 guys every game but as I said earlier, they need to be more consistent with their production.

[IberiaCajun]

Don’t even have one of our starters on the team playing yet . Without injury this team is sweet 16 pre-built.

We are LOUISIANA

Also, great second-half adjustments by coach MARLIN against Drake , too bad the referees didn’t help too much

Too bad coach didn't make adjustments between the 10-minute mark of the first half and half time.
Were the officials from the MVC?

[Old-DaBoot]

No matter how hard a team plays, you can't overcome shooting 15 percent from three. Basketball is a simple game at times. The team that puts it in the basket at the highest rate usually wins. You can win at 25 percent from three if you outrebound your opponent, make your free throws, and limit turnovers. We did some things well yesterday but we had too many turnovers to overcome the bad shooting. I understand the frustration with officials. Cajuns did not even get to shoot a 1 and 1 when they were fouled with less than two minutes to go. Drake must have really played good defense to have so few fouls at that point.

Mr Mike there was a lot of home cooking on that game . We got out played 1st Half and played good enough to win 2nd half .. I’m not one to complain about refs but it was bad . Felt like playing at La tech

[ManAboutTown]

Folks, C'mon.. Finally played a team with a pulse a got slapped around. I don't want to hear "refs." Officiating is awful, everywhere, around the sports world. The team lost by 12, not 2.

[Cajunsmike]

Folks, C'mon.. Finally played a team with a pulse a got slapped around. I don't want to hear "refs." Officiating is awful, everywhere, around the sports world. The team lost by 12, not 2.

Officiating is not why the Cajuns lost. The officiating may have contributed to the final margin but not the result. Cajuns lost simply because they had a bad shooting game from the perimter. Actually, they had a terrible shooting game from the perimeter. The previous games indicate that was an anomaly. Hopefully that is the case. They were just as open yesterday as in games in which the shots went in. Now, if you want to say they get three happy and should not have taken a few early in the shot clock, I won't argue.
On the other hand we shot 23 three pointers which is the same no. DRake shot. They simply made four more than we did which results in exactly the final margin. Basketball is not like football. If your opponent has an incredibly hot day you will get beat. You will also get beat if your shots rarely fall. You can also pull upsets if you make double figure threes. Our previous opponents have had some success by the way. Tech has only lost to us and Texas Tech while Harvard had only lost to us last time I checked.

[Rainman66]

Folks, C'mon.. Finally played a team with a pulse a got slapped around. I don't want to hear "refs." Officiating is awful, everywhere, around the sports world. The team lost by 12, not 2.

Agree on the officiating, however, I disagree on finally playing a team with a pulse. The early season schedule has been surprisingly good competition with the exception of Centenary. However the next stretch of games are not very challenging.

[zeppelincajun]

Does anyone know if the game against Loyola on Tuesday is considered exhibition? It doesn’t indicate this on our website, but on Loyola’s all D1 games are listed as exhibition.