Good piece in Lafayette, LA newspaper, plus game notes.
AcadianaNow.com: Cajuns need win badly
Charlotte49ers.com: Charlotte-ULL Game Notes
RaginCajuns.com: Louisiana-Charlotte Game Notes
GO NINERS!
I’m confused, all three links are the same article…
Try theses allie…
Charlotte49ers.com: [URL=http://www.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/ncch/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/weekly-release][B]Charlotte-ULL Game Notes[/B]
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RaginCajuns.com: [URL=http://www.ragincajuns.com/Basketball/mens/Stories/0506notes.pdf][B]Louisiana-Charlotte Game Notes[/B]
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Thanks HP!
Any TV coverage at Picassos?
[QUOTE=49erFan1;142819]Any TV coverage at Picassos?[/QUOTE]
No TV. Some people don’t read press releases.
Here’s the game wrap-up from The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette, LA. Interesting comment by the writer in paragraph 6:
[b]Without three players, UL loses home opener[/b]Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com
The Daily Advertiser
December 5, 2005His team had three prominent players on the sidelines in street clothes, suspended from the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajun basketball team for unspecified indiscretions. But Robert Lee didn’t want to hear anything about giving up a game to prove a point.
“I thought we were going to win the game,” Lee said shortly after the Cajuns’ 67-62 loss to Charlotte Saturday night. “I thought the guys that we had would come out and play hard, and with two minutes left we had a chance.”
Not a lot of the disappointing 3,209 crowd for “Back to Blackham” night gave UL a chance, once they got inside and saw Michael Southall, Ed Turner and J. T. Fields not dressed. The threesome were suspended by Lee for violations of team rules, rumored to be missing team functions and class time, and those suspensions might not be just for Saturday’s home opener.
“It depends on those guys,” Lee said. “More than likely they won’t play the next game, either.”That would be the Dec. 11 contest at Texas-El Paso, when the Cajuns (0-4) will look to snap their season-opening loss streak following a short break for fall term finals. Lee, though, was more concerned about other issues.
“When you put on that jersey, you have to represent it well and have pride in that jersey,” he said following the game. “This program is bigger than winning one game. We’re trying to help these young men have success in their lives. That’s what this suspension is about.”
There’s little question that the Cajuns would already have snapped the loss streak had those three played Saturday, especially with Southall’s interior presence. Without him, UL played zone more than normal against Charlotte’s athletic inside players, and the shaky-shooting 49ers found their long-distance range for one of the few times in the early part of the season.
Charlotte, a 27 percent shooting team from 3-point range, made seven of its first nine outside the arc in forging a 36-29 halftime lead.
“They hadn’t been shooting it very well,” said Cajun guard Dwayne Mitchell. “We had to come out and get them. I thought we did a good job in the man (defense) in the second half, a lot of it on heart and effort.”
Few have shown more of those traits than Mitchell did against the 49ers. He finished with 25 points on 9-of-13 shooting including 3-of-4 treys, 13 rebounds including five on the offensive end, and seven assists in a 40-minute effort.
“He had a lot on his shoulders,” said UL senior forward Chris Cameron, who had a season-high 13 points. “He had to play the point, the two, rebound and play defense. He’s doing some pretty wonderful things.”
Mitchell’s trey got the Cajuns within three points in the final minute and the much-maligned defense forced a bad 49er shot at the shot-clock buzzer, but the last of the Cajuns’ 18 turnovers prevented a potential tying shot in the final seconds.
“Those guys just made shots,” Lee said. “We definitely had better intensity and focus. Against Georgia State (a 76-61 loss Tuesday that ended the season-opening three-game road swing) as didn’t battle hard enough. Tonight we competed every possession.”
“We’d only played 15 minutes of good basketball all season,” Cameron said. “This was much, much better than the last three games. If we have that every day, we’ll be successful.”
Link: AcadianaNow.com