Final: Louisiana 72, Texas 100

[R1Letterman]

It’s a Chris Beard special

speaking of something wrong in one situation but ok in another:

various RP takes of the past:

“we better not play baylor ever if briles is still coach”

now

“im really looking forward to playing texas, i guess we need to wait and find out what happened with their coach”

[CajunEXPRESS]

It’s a Chris Beard special

Sorry but I didn’t see anyone choking or hitting our players. Mr. Beard clearly hasn’t been teaching them the finer aspects of domestic basketball.

It didn’t make the slightest difference in the game, but in the second half I saw the zebras totally ignore a Longhorn foul when a Texas player blasted through one of our players back. Not a near miss, a solid blast. Happened just before they decided to give Charles a technical foul for being too rough.

[CajunVic]

Sorry but I didn’t see anyone choking or hitting our players. Mr. Beard clearly hasn’t been teaching them the finer aspects of domestic basketball.

It didn’t make the slightest difference in the game, but in the second half I saw the zebras totally ignore a Longhorn foul when a Texas player blasted through one of our players back. Not a near miss, a solid blast. Happened just before they decided to give Charles a technical foul for being too rough.

Agree . . . if we got a fair shake, it would have been a different game . . .

[cajuns80]

Agree . . . if we got a fair shake, it would have been a different game . . .

You can't be serious Vic.

[CajunVic]

You can't be serious Vic.

Just going with the flow during the Christmas season. People here like going with the flow better and this time it is in support of my university, players and coach . . .

[Million$Mullet]

Sorry but I didn’t see anyone choking or hitting our players. Mr. Beard clearly hasn’t been teaching them the finer aspects of domestic basketball.

It didn’t make the slightest difference in the game, but in the second half I saw the zebras totally ignore a Longhorn foul when a Texas player blasted through one of our players back. Not a near miss, a solid blast. Happened just before they decided to give Charles a technical foul for being too rough.

I’ll have to take your word for it. I wasn’t able to watch and figured it would be a blowout. Like I said before a Chris beard system will run circles around Bobby ball, refs helping or not. I’ve heard jay walker say that this team is just as good and talented as the 17 team. I don’t see it. Actually it’s not even close. It’s Jordan brown and everyone else.

[HoustonCajun]

Yeah, they're ball movement, transition, speed, was silky smooth. This is the first I see them play, so I don't know how they typically look, but man, they looked like a well oiled machine.

We have good talent. It is coaching. If we had ball movement finding an open man like Texas and quit dribbling into trouble and playing an isolation game, we would be much improved.

[ManAboutTown]

I keep reading the same crap. Year 13 and we still have people that don't see the trend. EVERY time we play decent to good competition, they shoot the lights out. There is a reason for that. We have a defensive specialist coach that has very rarely fielded a good defensive team. Do people realize this?

Honest question, because obviously I didn't watch that embarrassment: How many of those shots were contested or with hand in face? Texas shot over 50% from the field and 54% from 3. How many of those shots were wide ass open?

[SlickRick]

I keep reading the same crap. Year 13 and we still have people that don't see the trend. EVERY time we play decent to good competition, they shoot the lights out. There is a reason for that. We have a defensive specialist coach that has very rarely fielded a good defensive team. Do people realize this?

Honest question, because obviously I didn't watch that embarrassment: How many of those shots were contested or with hand in face? Texas shot over 50% from the field and 54% from 3. How many of those shots were wide ass open?

I watched the first half, then after 4 consecutive turnovers to start the second half, I switched to the NOLA bowl. We've played better defensively this season, but we couldn't match their speed and athleticism which lead to too many open shots. And the same on the other side of the court, they contested our shots and circled the wagons on JB.

JB has to do a better job our finding the open man when doubled, because that's all he's going to see in conference. Our guys must have good spacing as well to make this work.

[ManAboutTown]

I watched the first half, then after 4 consecutive turnovers to start the second half, I switched to the NOLA bowl. We've played better defensively this season, but we couldn't match their speed and athleticism which lead to too many open shots. And the same on the other side of the court, they contested our shots and circled the wagons on JB.

JB has to do a better job our finding the open man when doubled, because that's all he's going to see in conference. Our guys must have good spacing as well to make this work.

Spacing?!? HA! I've been asking about spacing (along with VObserver) for a decade.
I'm not shooting the messenger here, Rick. Didn't want you to take my comments as aimed at you. I appreciate your response.

Many an under-talented team put up fights against the top of CBB. USM beat a top 15 team this year. Miss St just loss to a MVC (I think) team. We remain a disorganized, poorly prepared, immune to adjustments in game, sloppy basketball team. I can't tell you the last time we played good defense; and the calling card of the coach is defense. That should tell people something.

I won't harp on it because I've largely been disconnected. But all i see all over social media is "10-1!!!" and "believe the hype!!!" It's the same damn propaganda we've seen here for 13 years. We just got WAXXED by a team who had their coach in JAIL! Controversy all over the place. And we couldn't even compete. I feel bad for the players, I really do. Because we have a talented roster that plays hard. This isn't on the players.