Getting our asses handed to us tonight...
Missing our bench this year.
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Getting our asses handed to us tonight...
Missing our bench this year.
"Long three by Tech, no good, easy rebound for UL-Lafayette"
"Long inside, layup good"
Very disappointing.
82-71 under 3
No defense
I wish I knew is HCMW recruited players with size and didn't get them or if he avoids beefy guys because he thinks they can't run the floor the way he wants.
Come on Dawgs we need this win against ul-lgbt!
We are missing Keyon and JJ off the bench!
Well, ULL is no NJIT, but they are looking pretty good tonight. :)
Let me guess: We're getting pasted by a big, physical, guy......down low in the paint, that's beating us on the boards and killing us with high percentage shots, lay ups, etc...??Quote:
Originally Posted by DogsWin
This has been Mike White's kryptonite for the last 3 years.
Hard to beat a team nearly 80% from 3 point line. We have got to learn to play more physical.
That sums it up HD. No inside defense whatsoever.
Can't rebound or make free throws. Not going to beat good teams if you can't do those things.
We have problems - we need someone to toughen up and play in the middle - if this team had an Antonio Meeking, we would be undefeated.
But we don't and MW needs to find some answers - looking forward to post game.
We have forgotten how to shoot free throws again.
Mike's coaching style may not fit big time
Looks like HCMW will be in Ruston a while longer.
This is my concern as well. This is NOT a new problem for us. We had the same issues when we lost the WAC Tournament title game to a bigger and more physical NMSU team in Las Vegas 2 years ago. And again, when we lost to a more physical USM team in Hattiesburg last year. In that game, USM's Michael Craig flat out beat us by playing football in the paint. Our "finesse" guys couldn't handle it.Quote:
Originally Posted by latech
White has had 3 years to fix this, and he hasn't.
Very disappointing loss..... lowers my expectations for the season considerably.
What the hell is our problem with in-state schools? ! This is ridiculous.
Gibby Talbot might have gone off for 20 against us. We are getting out-rebounded by everyone we play.
What is the final score?
True. This has been a perennial issue. Kinda tired of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Not good. ULL just lost to McNeese by 10 this past weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
ULL - 94, Tech - 86Quote:
Originally Posted by DONW
Surprised that we're getting absolutely nothing from the jucos and freshmen. Would've thought at least 1 would shine. Got to be crazy disappointing for White.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
I think we will be okay come conference play, but I think we can kiss any thoughts of a top 25 ranking goodbye.
This loss makes me laugh.
... or an at-large bid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
need to beat Cuse now!!
We may not be okay in conference play either. But, we shouldn't panic yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
I always tell anyone that will listen, there's a big difference between college basketball in early December, and college basketball in February. It's still very early.
Please translate. I fail to see the humor.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrongBad
Pieces still coming together. We had high expectations with only 4 starters coming back. We all know White can put it together. We lost to this same team last year. We will hit our stride again about mid-season and roll....... That is what we have done the last couple of years. The key this year is if we can continue to roll through the CUSA tournament. I have no doubts that we will be at the top of the conference.
ULL gets WAY up for Tech, but this does not and has never determined our season.
Mine too. That defensive effort was atrocious. Apart from our ball pressure, we got nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by nadB
If we're going to try to outscore people, we need to run the entire game. That bi-polar stuff is screwy!
But I'd freaking like to beat them once in a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by champion110
We got PANTSED:(Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Again, did MW recruits any guys with size and not get them or does he just go for lanky guys that he hopes run the floor well. I thought he had recruited someone that was a legit big. Maybe I misheard, but I thought we found a 6'10" 250 type guy.
This^^^^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Russdawg
Is officially bad juju.
Only 4 starters? Sounds like a good problem to have.Quote:
Originally Posted by champion110
We got PANTSED:(Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
We got panty-hosed.
4 players coming back
One thing's for sure, its going to be a HIGH challenge to beat our marquis opponents X(
A new article has been posted on www.latechsports.com:
Erik McCree and Alex Hamilton combined for 52 points, but second half woes were too much to overcome for Louisiana Tech on the road as the Bulldogs fell to Louisiana-Lafayette, 94-86, on Wednesday night in the Cajundome.
More...
Discuss it here.
We were outrebounded on the offensive and defensive glass 29-42.
http://www.latechsports.com/sports/m.../tech1210.html
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
I just looked at the Box score. 5 LA Tech players played 8-9 min each tonight against ULL, but they only scored a combined total of 11 points. That's not enough scoring from the bench.
Last year we had a ton of bench scoring. It was always one of the talking points for TV games and a major contributor to success.Quote:
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.)Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
He is a slight framed seven footer. Simply doesn't have the body mass to match up with sturdier builds. If I was Sheppard, I would build my body to a solid 245lbs and become a defensive stopper. We don't have a guy like that on the roster right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooddawg
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?
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
We just need a couple of "enforcers" who can run the floor and go to the basket hard. Take and deliver punishment!!
Another FAIL by Tech. They add to our humiliation by referring to ULL as Louisiana in the boxscore on our official website.Quote:
Originally Posted by DogsWin
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooddawg
Any time we lose to an in-state double-directional or hyphenated school, it is embarrassing and unacceptable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooddawg
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?
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
Plain and simple this is another bad loss. Should have beat this team and Temple. We aren't as good as a lot of us thought we would be...BUT. We still have a very real shot to win CUSA. I think any chance of an at large will be out the window unless we beat BOTH Syracuse and NC State.SO win the conference haha.
Take it a step further, he can't learn to play against talented big men if he doesn't have playing time. ULL has big fast, athletic, talented big men and Joniah got significant playing time. Hopefully he, and the rest of the freshmen, will learn a lot before conference play starts. I don't like losing to ULL at all, but I want to win the conference and conference tournament more.Quote:
Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
We have no size in the middle. Kyser is a weak side defender, he is great at leaving his man and blocking a shot by another defender's guy. He cannot body up on a big boy and shut him down, he just doesn't have the size. He is a 4, we need a true big boy 5, and those are hard to get at the non-elite programs (at least one that can walk and chew gum at the same time).
Yep. Even beating both Syracuse and NC State may not be enough if we don't run the table in conference play, which is nearly impossible. Those are both bubble teams at best right now. Neither are projected to win 20 regular season games. This is the worst Syracuse team Boeheim has put on the floor in a long, long time. And the committee knows that Temple's two best players missed their first 10 or so games or so even if Temple improves, it doesn't improve our resume.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluecrew
Sometimes you start typing and your ignorance really flows out. The game was played in Lafayette. It was a ULL home game. They refer to themselves as Louisiana. Our SID's office can't edit the box score when we're the visiting team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg06
15 of 25 60% from the FT line, won't get it done, especially on the road. Out-rebounded...again. That never helps....
This team has ONE shot at dancing this year. Get hot in the CUSA Tourney and win the auto-bid. Other than that, forget it. UTEP and ODU will be tough to beat out for the regular season crown. I also like Charlotte as a dark horse contender. But, truthfully, no one is setting the world on fire, so Tech has as good a shot as anyone. That's why it will come down to who's hot in the tourney. The regular season is more about positioning yourself for an NIT bid, or other post season tourney bid.
Wrong. They've edited it in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by theprofessor
Football Box Score
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana-LafayetteQuote:
Scoring Summary (Final)
Louisiana Tech Football 2014
Louisiana Tech vs UL-Lafayette (Sep 06, 2014 at Lafayette, La.)
Louisiana Tech (1-1) vs. UL-Lafayette (1-1)Date: Sep 06, 2014 • Site: Lafayette, La. • Stadium: Cajun Field • Attendance: 25607
Quote:
Louisiana (1-1) vs. Louisiana Tech (1-1)
Other than the bad defense, especially in the post, the one thing that sticks out to me is we only had six assists on 31 makes. Speedy usually has that, or more, by himself. We are a better team when we share the ball.
Yes. I know we should win a game we score 86 points, but it was still something that caught my eye.
Sounds like a GREAT idea to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by qng001
If you want to live in the past so be it. The post I responded to called them double directional. Lafayette is directional as is Austin chapel hill Knoxville Reno LA. That's a bunch of other "double directional" schools tech can't beat according to the original posters definition.Quote:
Originally Posted by stodgdog
I'm out and I'm loving it.
After the game was removed from DirecTV's guide, the recording that was set up to record also disappeared. I knew I was beat so I didn't even check to see if the game was being shown, nor did I record anything.
The video was so-so for me. I know ULL was running the video, but like you I'd rather see what Tech is doing instead of seeing a ULL basket replay from multiple angles.Quote:
Originally Posted by S'PortDawg
I turned off the ULL audio since it wasn't in sync with the video, but found that the Tech All Access audio was a couple of seconds ahead of the video. So I paused the Tech audio for a couple of seconds so that the audio ended up being only a split second off. It was a crazy way to watch a game, but at least I got it to a bearable state. The game itself was painful to watch.
This week I was working in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge area and WWL referred to them as UL and the ESPN affiliate in BR did the same. A year ago that would have never happened. It appears to be slowly becoming common place for all south of Hodge and the entire G&L community.
I don't care about the name, I really don't. But what does it have to do with the Gay & Lesbian community?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
To keep it simple, just call us daddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by stodgdog
Kent is "out and loving it."
Thanks to Southwestern's new minor!Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
Perhaps he made a reference to ULL's minor in LGBT studies. I'm not sure what that has to do, though, with people being more likely to call ULL by the wrong name.Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
Lol that's awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
Tech absolutely man-handled and embarrassed the most talented ULL football team ever.. in Lafayette. I think you are confused on who is daddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajunfanatico
And you don't have to keep reminding us that your softball team is good, bc no one gives a shit. Football matters most, and yall (still) suck.
I never mentioned our softball team, or the quality of our football team, but we do appreciate your obvious and continued interest in Ragin Cajun athletics!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by hambone29
I care about dog shit on my yard too, but I clean that up as well and move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajunfanatico
LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
great come back!
as evidenced by the fact YOU are on OUR forum. Got it...Quote:
Originally Posted by cajunfanatico
Don't be so hard on him. It must be tough to go to your own board where everyone is a closet tigger fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Okay, who commented under my rep that my comment was lame but didn't put a signature to own his/her comment?
Cajun...no need waisting your energy with them...Their pissed cause they live in ruston..who wouldn't be. Have you seen that place?? On top of that they are fans of Louisiana technical college....Talk about directional...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kent
http://s.quickmeme.com/img/5d/5d983b...cfeef3dba7.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by no1cajunfan
This from a guy who supports a school that uses trailers for their athletic facilities on purpose. I mean, living in the bacteria infested back water, one would want to be able to relocate easily above he flood plain.Quote:
Originally Posted by no1cajunfan