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BU Beats UW-Parkside 87-77

Not to bad of a showing, although I was disappointed in the Free Throw shooting. Been many games the past couple seasons where FT shooting has cost us 10+ points. Learning a new system has nothing to do with FT shooting, that's all on the player shooting FT after FT in practice. It can get better if they really work on it.

Everyone should e-mail this box score to all the MVC media outlets who left Taylor Brown off the radar. He put up all league #'s in his 1st game in over a year. Should be a beast if he stays out of trouble.

Oh and don't keep preaching that the D needs to get better. Ford's system is all about run and gun. Players will be getting tired easily but primary focus needs to be on the offensive end. Just gotta keep putting up the points.

Jason
 
BUBraves06 said:
I agree, to me Jake is the type of player that a winning team needs, someone who does things throughout the game that don't show up on the stat sheet but are necessary for the team to win. My only gripe with him, and granted this is based on last year and has nothing to do with tonight, is that he needs to be more aggressive on the offensive end of the court. I'm not saying that we should rely on Jake to carry us offensively or even that he needs to be a consistent scorer, but I felt like consistently last season he would get the ball and not even look at the basket or consider shooting. I fear that if he turns himself into such a non-threat that teams will pick up on it and start to sag off him or double someone like TB.
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I agree with you. He also had some stupid TOs, and his FT shooting is abysmal for that type of player.
 
I'd have to think MK is going to need to play some this year as JP is really our only big man right now outside of two freshman that aren't super ready to contribute. It makes me nervous he only got 3 minutes in an exhibition. Is this what we can expect from him all year? Because even if we use JE at the 4 again this year, JP cannot play the entire game at the 5.
 
One quote jumps out from me from Dave Reynolds' article.

"Parkside despite being picked for last place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, proved to be a worthy opponent."

Guys, the main reason I am upset about last night's performance, is that Parkside is not a very good team and we were not ready to play that game!
 
Beninator said:
One quote jumps out from me from Dave Reynolds' article.

"Parkside despite being picked for last place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, proved to be a worthy opponent."

Guys, the main reason I am upset about last night's performance, is that Parkside is not a very good team and we were not ready to play that game!
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LIGHTEN UP! IT WAS A FREAKING EXHIBITION GAME!!! We did not prepare for them at all, film-wise. Did you listen to the post-game show?? Geno said they worked on their stuff and didn't even look at film of Parkside. My goodness, it was the first game for a team picked to finish last. To crucify Ford for not having them ready to play is BS.
 
Beninator said:
One quote jumps out from me from Dave Reynolds' article.

"Parkside despite being picked for last place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, proved to be a worthy opponent."

Guys, the main reason I am upset about last night's performance, is that Parkside is not a very good team and we were not ready to play that game!
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We were tied for last a year ago and picked last again this season!
 
jasonpeoria911 said:
Another note, the 77 points allowed tonight is just a few points higher than what Ford's team usually allowed last season. His team usually scored in the high 70's and low 80's. So tonight was pretty much right on track with what we'll see this season.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/teams/kae/schedule?y=2010

Jason
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Exactly. JE said on the postgame that it's more about defensive shooting percentage than points scored, simply because of the tempo and number of possessions.
 
shaunguth said:
We were tied for last a year ago and picked last again this season!
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I know I know... I feel as if I am on the Score after a Bears loss.:lol: But IMHO, that does not mean that we should have been exposed the way we were last night by a bad Division II team.
 
I thought we looked really bad last nite too. If we play like that all year we wont win 10 games. Last nite reminded me of the Stan Albeck years.
 
bu fan 9 said:
I thought we looked really bad last nite too. If we play like that all year we wont win 10 games. Last nite reminded me of the Stan Albeck years.
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Good comparison. If we recruit the talent to play in that system it can be really fun to watch. If we don't it can be ugly. I am somewhat confident that we can get some players in here to run the system. I hope that is the case. For now just enjoy the ride.
 
bu fan 9 said:
I thought we looked really bad last nite too. If we play like that all year we wont win 10 games. Last nite reminded me of the Stan Albeck years.
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lake Camelot said:
Good comparison. If we recruit the talent to play in that system it can be really fun to watch. If we don't it can be ugly. I am somewhat confident that we can get some players in here to run the system. I hope that is the case. For now just enjoy the ride.
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bu fan 9 said:
That last nite was not fun for me to watch it was ugly.
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Very much agree with these comments.

I attended the game last night with a good friend who played for BU briefly in the 1940's. He made the Albeck comparison last night as well and we discussed this for most of the evening.
 
Beninator said:
Very much agree with these comments.

I attended the game last night with a good friend who played for BU briefly in the 1940's. He made the Albeck comparison last night as well and we discussed this for most of the evening.
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Ben...I have to ask...what exactly did you expect to see last night? I think you give coaches too much credit/blame. The players are the players. They weren't very good last year--lost three of the better ones--and replaced them with freshmen. Do the math there....it's not gonna be pretty for a while.

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken s***.
 
Beninator said:
One quote jumps out from me from Dave Reynolds' article.

"Parkside despite being picked for last place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, proved to be a worthy opponent."..
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-first - this quote is a tiny bit disingenuous...because in the 16-team GLVC - they play in TWO different divisions, and the voting for the East & the West Divisions is done completely separately...

So yes, they were picked last in the East (8th out of 8 teams) but no voting was taken of all 16 teams together - so we really don't know if they would have been last given the SEPARATE polls for the two divisions.

-second - It is possible this team could be better than a last place team in their conference - only time will tell...... I kinda recall Drake being picked last in the MVC in 2007-08..



bu fan 9 said:
That last nite was not fun for me to watch it was ugly.
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OK - I'll bite --

-people clammored for more offense - we got it

-people said we gotta win the exhibitions - losing to a D-II team is intolerable - and WE WON, and won by double digits and were really never truly threatened

-people said we need to rebound better and win the rebounding battle - WE DID and we won the rebounding battle easily

-people said we need to shoot better, and we shot an amazing 53% from the field!!

-people said we need to take better care of the ball - well we had 15 TO but much of that total was because the coach used the EXHIBITION GAME as a tool to try out a new option at PG - and it paid dividends in showing the coach what maybe he needed to see!
BUT -- only two players had more than a two turnovers....for the most part when we had starters on the floor with Donivine at PG - we had almost NO turnovers.

I guess folks can choose to be bummed out or hate what they saw - but I think we'll be OK...
 
tornado said:
Great job Bobby-

Here's DR's report
http://www.pjstar.com/bradleyhoops/...n-87-77?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Donivine's stat line 5-5 from the floor, 2-2 from 3-pt, 12 pts, 4 rebs, 6 asst, NO turnovers, and I thought he had a couple of steals!

and indeed TB is 9-9 from the FT line and everyone else is 12-25
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I totally agree with you about DS starting. He has had naysayers at every level of play and the kid continues to prove them wrong.

Some kids just have that ability to adapt and excel regardless of the level of competition they're facing, and Donivine is one of them. He makes up for his lack of appealing attributes through hard work and you can tell how much he has improved his ball handling, his ability to create shots for his teammates, and his defense. He's as battle tested as any true Freshman we've had and is ready to start.
 
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