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[NSU2003]

154. Northwestern State: Jalan West is one of the best players in America that nobody knows about, and Zeek Woodley is the nation's highest returning leading scorer. Lot of talent here, but they need to pick up the nation's second-worst defense.

www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25331040/cbs-sports-2015-16-ranking-of-every-college-basketball-team-from-1-351

[TrackDemon]

Pretty fair. If we can do better on D we should be a 20+ win team and should contend for the conference title.

[purplestorm]

Might want to adjust that 20 win prediction, unfortunately. One of our top-two players is hurt and we just gave up 99 points, at home, to an NAIA team in a loss. Poor defense, poor free-throw shooting and our guards have little help. Same story as last year, only without our star player. Might be a long season Unless coaches can adjust quickly. Between this loss and giving up 60 points at Sam in football, we need a clinic on how to play defense by someone.

[purplestorm]

Our best player, Jalan West, is done for the year (torn ACL). We should all wish him well and hope for the best outcome for his life and career. Being selfish, I would love to see him back next year if he can get a medical redshirt, but if he gets a chance to go big-time without coming back, that would be great, too.

[NSU2003]

You gotta be sh-tting me...a torn ACL?!?!?!?! And in the last 30 f-cking seconds of the game, too!

After losing to LSU-Almost last night it appears we didn't work on our defense over the offseason...looks like a loooooooooong season.

[purplestorm]

Well, we will sorely miss Jalan and I hope he gets a medical redshirt for next year, but if he forgoes that opportunity to go pro, I would not blame him. The good news is we have had three good recruiting classes in a row and the future of NSU basketball is quite solid with these young players:

Reggie Kissonlal -- 6'11" -- Fr
Ishmael Lane -- 6'7" -- Fr
Colby Koontz -- 6'10" -- Fr
Tanner Hamilton -- 6'9" -- Incoming 2016
Devonte Hall -- 6-2" -- So
Josh Boyd -- 6'0" -- Incoming 2016
Malik Metoyer -- 6'6" -- Fr
Tyree Thompson -- 6'4" -- Incoming 2016
Cody Cambre -- 6'3" -- Fr
Bailey Walker -- 5'11" -- Fr
Stan Mays -- 6'2" -- Jr (Texas Tech transfer who is redshirting and will have two years left)

There are a couple others who are walk-on's. Now, it will be a long time, if ever, we find a combo like Jalan West and Zeek Woodley, but we have to try to have a good year anyway. Tajon Welcome, Travon Joseph, Sabri Thompson, Matt Jillian, Levi Yancy, along w the dynamo and future NBA player, Woodley, are capable. They just have to adjust to losing Jalan. So, all is not bad in basketball ... even though it feels like it at the moment. Finally, IF Jalan does come back, we could be sick, off-the-charts good next year.

[NSU2003]

Nov 19, 2015 15:30:17 GMT purplestorm said:

Well, we will sorely miss Jalan and I hope he gets a medical redshirt for next year, but if he forgoes that opportunity to go pro, I would not blame him. The good news is we have had three good recruiting classes in a row and the future of NSU basketball is quite solid with these young players:

Reggie Kissonlal -- 6'11" -- Fr
Ishmael Lane -- 6'7" -- Fr
Colby Koontz -- 6'10" -- Fr
Tanner Hamilton -- 6'9" -- Incoming 2016
Devonte Hall -- 6-2" -- So
Josh Boyd -- 6'0" -- Incoming 2016
Malik Metoyer -- 6'6" -- Fr
Tyree Thompson -- 6'4" -- Incoming 2016
Cody Cambre -- 6'3" -- Fr
Bailey Walker -- 5'11" -- Fr
Stan Mays -- 6'2" -- Jr (Texas Tech transfer who is redshirting and will have two years left)

There are a couple others who are walk-on's. Now, it will be a long time, if ever, we find a combo like Jalan West and Zeek Woodley, but we have to try to have a good year anyway. Tajon Welcome, Travon Joseph, Sabri Thompson, Matt Jillian, Levi Yancy, along w the dynamo and future NBA player, Woodley, are capable. They just have to adjust to losing Jalan. So, all is not bad in basketball ... even though it feels like it at the moment. Finally, IF Jalan does come back, we could be sick, off-the-charts good next year.

Sorry, but losing to LSUA is cause for great concern for the rest of the season. Not like we lost to a fellow DI school in our first game without Jalan. We gave up 99 points...think about that...to LSUA. We literally could not stop them and when we did our defense is so shitty that all we did was foul almost every time. Scoring I don't think will be a big problem...but once again we have a team full of guys who either refuse or cannot D Up...or our coaches don't focus or know how to coach defense.