MBB: Louisiana Heads to Jonesboro to Face Arkansas State

[Big Tyme]

Nice win.

[Crawfish]

Yes. And he’s very likable. I prefer the offense through him as opposed to street ball. He’s a good passer too.

I brought my 6 year old grandson to the basketball game last week on children's night. The kids were lined up before the game to hand slap the players as they enter. Kitenge's interaction with the kids was great. He looked like he was having fun. I was impressed.

[CajunVic]

We need more Kitenge’s

[ManAboutTown]

They finally force fed Kitenge on the block (and he did an excellent job kicking the ball out when he was crowded). Defensive effort stymied a decent shooting Arkie St guard group. Made our FTs. Competed much better on the boards in the second half. Made 40ish percent from 3. We can dominate the SBC with that formula, even with a short bench.

[Million$Mullet]

I’d like to think this was our most complete win. Didn’t die by the 3. Drove the lane. Fed the biggun and played excellent defense for the most part.

By the way Jonesboro is like putting a college campus in the middle of Crowley. Rice fields everywhere then boom there’s a stadium. Beers were cold and I paid $16 for two 16 oz drafts. That’s actually $2 more per oz than at the Cajundome

[Big Tyme]

They finally force fed Kitenge on the block (and he did an excellent job kicking the ball out when he was crowded). Defensive effort stymied a decent shooting Arkie St guard group. Made our FTs. Competed much better on the boards in the second half. Made 40ish percent from 3. We can dominate the SBC with that formula, even with a short bench.

Ketenge did a great job of anticipating the double and found the open guy which had been missing from his game.
Held AStae to half their normal percentage from 3. I like the defensive effort by this group.

[ZoomZoom]

Found this on the JMU board…their coaching situation. Must be a SBC thing.


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(Yesterday 05:57 PM)Duke Dawg Wrote:
I love what byington has done to revive the dead jmu program.

But I’ve never been a fan of the free wheeling style and he is destined to be basketball’s version of Mickey matthews.

He’ll get the huge credit for the revival, as he should, but as time goes on we’ll look back and think he could have done a lot more and that we underachieved, just like with matthews.

As I’ve said before, this year and last, there’s a reason he’s a ten plus year head coach and never come close to sniffing an NCAA bid.

[ManAboutTown]

Beating Mich St and being ranked in the top 25 has never happened here under Bob. Comparing the two situations is wild.

[cajun55]

They finally force fed Kitenge on the block (and he did an excellent job kicking the ball out when he was crowded). Defensive effort stymied a decent shooting Arkie St guard group. Made our FTs. Competed much better on the boards in the second half. Made 40ish percent from 3. We can dominate the SBC with that formula, even with a short bench.

What’s frustrating to me is we would have won the James Madison game if we had done this sooner. I get they probably don’t want to put too much on Kitenge early in the season, but he’s a real game changer. We jumped out to a 10 point lead early against JMU running the offense through Kitenge and then seemed to get away from it the rest of that game. Glad we are getting back to it.

With his presence down low we can beat anyone in the league.

[ZoomZoom]

Beating Mich St and being ranked in the top 25 has never happened here under Bob. Comparing the two situations is wild.

Basically some JMU fans are reaching back into the coach’s prior job and counting off now ten years of no NCAA appearances. At least a few of them now realize it is 3 (or 4) games in March for the entire SBC.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Basically some JMU fans are reaching back into the coach’s prior job and counting off now ten years of no NCAA appearances. At least a few of them now realize it is 3 (or 4) games in March for the entire SBC.

That’s Bobby Ball, honing in to peak performance for the tournament. The only games that matter.

[zephyr]

What’s frustrating to me is we would have won the James Madison game if we had done this sooner. I get they probably don’t want to put too much on Kitenge early in the season, but he’s a real game changer. We jumped out to a 10 point lead early against JMU running the offense through Kitenge and then seemed to get away from it the rest of that game. Glad we are getting back to it.

With his presence down low we can beat anyone in the league.

They did it heavily in the first half. That's a big part of how we developed that lead. They took him away in the second half and we were not nearly as efficient on the perimeter with the ball.