M. Basketball. Bulldogs Fall on the Road to Ragin' Cajuns

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Originally Posted by Gooddawg

Can Sheppard defend the post? He isn't far from 240 now. I seriously consider playing him now. We have zero size and presence in post. Mcree is a 3 playing the 4. Kyser is a 4 playing the 5 and we have no 5. Really could have used Gibby for games like this. Edwards was our best post defender and player tonight. I think Mcree may have to become the 6th man and slide Kyser over and start Edwards. White is not even close to ready as I feared after watching him play a few games. He needs to play some but has a long way to go.

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I think we're missing Massey's bulk/athleticism more than Gibby. I'm not sure Branden is ready. But he has the frame to carry 250 comfortably. McCree is more of a finesse guy and we need him on the floor for scoring purposes. But, you're right, Edwards was much more effective than White against Long. Long was awesome tonight. Have to give him his due.

We are missing his athleticism but Massey did himself in. We need a big body who can defend the post a little and put up some resistance. I think I try to play Edwards with Kyser some. Let's face it Kyser is great vs guards driving the lane but a poor defender vs other bigs. Even if Mcree continues to start bring Edwards in I guess or maybe instead of White. Anderson had the big body Mcree doesn't and that is fine but not when your center is that outmanned down low too.

Embarrassing and unacceptable.

So what did y'all's DVR's record?

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Originally Posted by boxerdog

I think we're missing Massey's bulk/athleticism more than Gibby. I'm not sure Branden is ready. But he has the frame to carry 250 comfortably. McCree is more of a finesse guy and we need him on the floor for scoring purposes. But, you're right, Edwards was much more effective than White against Long. Long was awesome tonight. Have to give him his due.

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Boxer, an enforcer doesn't have to be 7 ft tall. USM's Michael Craig was only 6'5, but he was 250 lbs of MAN! He was the closest thing you'll see to a football player on the floor. And he brought THAT football attitude to the floor and scored.

We just need a couple of "enforcers" who can run the floor and go to the basket hard. Take and deliver punishment!!

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Originally Posted by DogsWin

We were outrebounded on the offensive and defensive glass 29-42.

http://www.latechsports.com/sports/m.../tech1210.html

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Another FAIL by Tech. They add to our humiliation by referring to ULL as Louisiana in the boxscore on our official website.

If there is anything embarrassing about it, it's that they are beating us with Louisiana kids every year. 3 starters and 11 total on roster from LA, granted they are all S LA kids but when was the last time we landed a good basketball recruit from I-10 or below?

If you have seen our team play much this year you had to see this coming.

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Originally Posted by Gooddawg

Don't kid yourself though this is a really good team who won belt, made the tourney and lost to a good Creighton team. They had a top 10 pick to draft but returned everyone else and Long is a beast. Their new pg is pretty good too. They only lost 2 games because Long was out and barely lost to McNeese because their pg was out and that s a tough place to play. I don't think this loss will hurt our ncaa chances as much as our pride when all is said and done. They will win a lot of games this year.

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BS on most of that. ULL was not a good team last year, and they lost their all-everything player from last year. And they are not a good team this year either. ULL got very lucky to win that Belch tournament last year with two miracle 1-point upsets against much better teams in WKU and Georgia State on what was essentially a home court for ULL. And our at-large chances are at 0.0001% right now. Gone. We already have two bad losses and 0 quality wins. Our pathetic schedule only has 1 Top 50 opponent (Syracuse) and only 5 games against 4 other Top 100 opponents (NC State, UTEPx2, Old Dominion, Charlotte). That's 25 must-wins (already lost 2) and only 6 chances for quality wins on our schedule with only 1 of the 6 being a big resume opportunity.

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Originally Posted by Gooddawg

If there is anything embarrassing about it, it's that they are beating us with Louisiana kids every year. 3 starters and 11 total on roster from LA, granted they are all S LA kids but when was the last time we landed a good basketball recruit from I-10 or below?

If you have seen our team play much this year you had to see this coming.

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Any time we lose to an in-state double-directional or hyphenated school, it is embarrassing and unacceptable.

And yes, it was quite apparent to me after the Southern and Temple games that this team was not close to good enough to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Coach White made a big mistake by hyping this team up so much with all that NCAA or bust talk in the preseason. That was way too much pressure to put on a team with 9 newcomers and a schedule that gives them almost no margin for error. White made it clear that this team only had 1 goal this year, and one of only two avenues to achieve that goal is already closed. I posted about it after the Temple game and got blasted for it.

"Louisiana" in this link, too. Come on man! Can we please proofread before we publish?

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Originally Posted by Dawg06

Any time we lose to an in-state double-directional or hyphenated school, it is embarrassing and unacceptable.

And yes, it was quite apparent to me after the Southern and Temple games that this team was not close to good enough to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Coach White made a big mistake by hyping this team up so much with all that NCAA or bust talk in the preseason. That was way too much pressure to put on a team with 9 newcomers and a schedule that gives them almost no margin for error. White made it clear that this team only had 1 goal this year, and one of only two avenues to achieve that goal is already closed. I posted about it after the Temple game and got blasted for it.

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Correct. But Lafayette is only one direction and Tech is just as directional as Lafayette. The only difference is ULL is twice as big and has nicer FB BB BASE B and SB facilities. Tech did not lose to NWST or SELU. La Laf is equal to Tech at the very least.

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Originally Posted by Kent

Correct. But Lafayette is only one direction and Tech is just as directional as Lafayette. The only difference is ULL is twice as big and has nicer FB BB BASE B and SB facilities. Tech did not lose to NWST or SELU. La Laf is equal to Tech at the very least.

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Tech is not a direction. Southwestern is. You are Southwestern, always, no matter what you try to call yourselves. Nevertheless, they seem to have our number in MBB.

Need to put a clause in our coaches contract regarding losing to an instate school. They should get penalized in the form of reduced pay for losing.

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Originally Posted by HogDawg

Jonah White --isn't he our 6'10 guy?-- played 9 min and scored 0 points and had 0 rebounds. Give me a frickin break! Is this guy a terrible athlete or what? (I don't know, so I'm asking.)

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My opinion, he's young, skinny and learning college ball at its faster pace. He's being coached and getting playing experience. He's only 205 lbs but will naturally put on muscle weight and I'm sure they're working with him on strengthening. He moves well and he has good awareness of the court.

He's also a little on the quiet understated side but I won't say timid. But so was Kareem Abdul Jabar. He just needs to learn big man college ball and physically grow up some.

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Originally Posted by Dawg Fan

We have a 7' 0" 210 pound guy (Joniah White). Gibby was 6'10" 290 pounds. It's not all about size, otherwise Gibby would have been a force to reckon with at 6'10', 290 lbs.

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We all knew about Gibby. I was led to believe, over the summer, that we had 2 bigs coming into the program. One was J. White and the other was an athletic big with muscle. Like I said, could have misheard or been misled. Not sure.