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Cajuns’ Landry blossoms as scoring threat from the perimeter
LOUISIANA La. — Antoine Landry is going through changes.
For one thing, there’s the hair.
Landry began Louisiana’s 2003-2004 basketball season with his hair in braids, but now he wears it close-cropped, the mark of a young man going on job interviews and preparing to join the work force after graduation.
Then there’s the points ... plenty of them lately.
The senior guard from De La Salle High in New Orleans has had to bide his time before gaining the spotlight, but he’s quickly finding his stroke as a dangerous outside weapon for coach Jessie Evans’ squad.
Suddenly, he is the team’s leading scorer at 14.4 points per game.
Three times in the last four games he has either equalled or topped his previous career-best scoring output of 20 points, including last Saturday’s 26-point outburst in an 81-67 home victory over Houston.
In that game, Landry hit 6-of-9 3-point attempts. For the year, he has nailed 45.2 percent of his treys (28-of-62).
That kind of thing tends to happen when you blossom from averaging 10 minutes per game in your previous 63 college contests to a current 32-minute norm.
“I’ve been working hard since I got here,” Landry said. “This year I’ve been playing more and have been playing hard.”
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Bruce Brown
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