Interesting Exchange Between UL MBB Assistant Coach Murphy and Dave Schultz

[RoarMan]

i just like that fact that he gets relevant guests on his show. its an lsu station, but they are talking cajuns every day on the way in to work. i dont think stevie has ever had an interview or a guest on his show, and i just cant listen to his monologue. id rather listen to interviews that are relevant to what is going on around sports.

+1

[zephyr]

Wow, listening to this interview gives me even less confidence in Marlin's coaching staff. This guy got totally defensive for no reason. He was talking in circles about bragging about scoring 80 points per game yet can't hit the 3.

Do you think that Coach Murphey really believes that the Cajuns will magically get red hot from behind the arc for the rest of the season?

He stated that if the Cajuns can get hot from behind the arc they can make a run....that applies to every single team in the country guy!

NOTHING from this season indicates that the Cajuns will suddenly get hot from 3 point land.

He didn't necessarily predict they would get "hot". His point was valid as he mentioned that they needed to continue shooting the 3 ball. Shooting well from the perimeter opens up the inside and stretches a defense. All he said was that he believed they had shooters that can make the shots but they have to start making them and I agree. Shepherd, Register, Wronkowski and even Jay Wright can hit the three ball.

Schultz lost me when he suggested Register attacking the zone at the high post and shooting bank shots from mid range. I don't have a problem shooting the 3 ball as we have to shoot it in order to open up the defense and we are also a decent offensive rebounding club so if you are hitting the glass, I don't mind it as long as it is a good shot. I don't really care where the shot comes from if it is a good shot. What I've had a problem with is that getting good shots usually comes from ball and player movement to briefly shift defenses and create seams which we don't seem to do very well.

[zephyr]

No college team takes midrange jump shots anymore. That's why I no longer watch .

Many of the best teams in the country take them. However, to win in today's game, you have to be able to hit the 3 at least a little bit.

[zephyr]

Coaches will tell you that the mid range shot in college is one of the toughest in the game as you generally get it when you are on the move. Still, I would like to see us take more of those as we would not get so many charges. Coach Murphy made a good point however in that the mid range shot is difficult to obtain at times when the defense is a soft man to man or zone. Turnover often results in those situations. I found the debate interesting. I do note coaches do get defensive when people they do not believe know as much about the game as they do try to give them advice. It is like me taking advice from some actor on how the energy industry works. That being said, I do not know how much basketball knowledge Dave Schultz has. He may have played the game competitively and therefore speaks with credibility. I also listen to them in the morning more frequently these days as they do focus on the Cajuns more than in the past. However you guys should know that last Friday morning he was going on about Jay Wright being in a slump as he only played a few minutes at Troy. I had to call and tell them that Jay suffered an injury which is why he did not play much. He was developing his commentary strictly from the box score. I found that situation indicative of a lack of preparation. He obviously had not listened to the game or read details about the game. If he had, he would have known about the injury. At least read the ragincajuns.com story before preparing your remarks. Injury report was in there. Speculating on Jay's situation without knowing the whole story was unfair to Jay.

A mid range shot is not always an on the move shot but I understand what you are talking about. The thing is, being on the move is not always bad as pulling up for a jumper allows you to get into a rhythm for the shot. While I did not play on the collegiate level, I always enjoyed shooting off the dribble and pulling up for a jump shot as I felt more in rhythm with the shot and could get more lift on my shot.

[MountainDew]

One thing I didn't hear being talked about was defense. We obviously don't play defense. We may score a lot of points, but we give up even more. It does us no good to score 200 points if we give up 201.

[zephyr]

One thing I didn't hear being talked about was defense. We obviously don't play defense. We may score a lot of points, but we give up even more. It does us no good to score 200 points if we give up 201.

I think defense has been good enough to win, at least lately. Our offense is the elephant in the room and I'm not talking only about perimeter shooting. People are putting too much emphasis on the bad 3 point shooting but there have been a couple of games recently where our 3pt percentage was better than our overall FG percentage and that's terrible. In the Arlington game, we had 19 offensive rebounds but only 7 second chance points. That's a lot of misses close to the basket. You won't win many games shooting 29% from the field.

[RaginDave]

A mid range shot is not always an on the move shot but I understand what you are talking about. The thing is, being on the move is not always bad as pulling up for a jumper allows you to get into a rhythm for the shot. While I did not play on the collegiate level, I always enjoyed shooting off the dribble and pulling up for a jump shot as I felt more in rhythm with the shot and could get more lift on my shot.

Reference a former player for the Cajuns. Tony Moore. Man had a great first step. Would beat players off the dribble and hit a 10 foot jumper. Very little of that left in college basketball.

[MountainDew]

I always get the feel that we're playing a "street ball" offense. Watch other teams. They're running plays. Setting off ball screens. Getting men into good position. We just pass the ball around the top of the key most of the time.

[GeauxCajuns]

I always get the feel that we're playing a "street ball" offense. Watch other teams. They're running plays. Setting off ball screens. Getting men into good position. We just pass the ball around the top of the key most of the time.

schultz was right in the fact that our offense works as in we get open looks, we just havent been able to knock them down consistently. for the most part, the 3's that we are missing are good looks that arent contested.

[Cajunsmike]

+1

I also like Dave having guests on his show and I don't mind a different approach to questions. I am listening to that morning show more frequently these days. However, not knowing a player was hurt when wondering if his slump limited playing time is something that should not occur.