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BU 63@ ws84 postgame

20 wins is a stretch with a home loss already, and crouch out for another month or so.

We just need to concentrate on fixing the problems right now.
 
Where do you start to fix????? Take a look at the guys we have and who the minutes are going to. What is going to change by alot. This team was going to have to play lights out to finish 5th in conf before JC went down.....more than likely it would have been 6-7.....Now , well who knows...but it is what it is. One game at a time.
 
Yeah, we shoulda won that game.
We need to clean house and start over.
This team is goin nowhere.
 
Rebounding is killing this team; ruffin and franklin are playing well but our bigs need to play like 6-7 and 6-8 players should and get those missed shots.
 
Biff said:
Yeah, we shoulda won that game.
We need to clean house and start over.
This team is goin nowhere.
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Sorry BIF. I wouldnt change a thing. DA Coach said JL needs to fix the problems now.....I replied, where do you start?

I never expected to win tis game.....but I thought it might be competitive. I never said clean house, I said it is what it is, and one game at a time. Sounds like you have written them off...
 
I don't understand why some people seem so surprised that this team has deficiencies. They lost 4 seniors from last year's team, that's hard enough to replace. Then they lost their top returning player too late (in May) to replace him with another recruit (so the scholarship went to a 5th year, walkon). They lost their only true center, and the returning defensive Player of the Year, and probably an All American.
And despite all that, they were playing great and had an RPI in the 20's with the leftovers. Then their leading scorer went down with a bad injury. Not too many teams that could recover from all this. I am amazed that Jim Les hasn't used excuses, and that the team has continued to play so hard. But they will continue to struggle against good rebounding teams, and they will not be as competetive as they were with Crouch in the lineup. Despite the rancor here, this team still has a lot of fans and supporters behind it. I remember last January they were struggling a little and people wanted to fire the coach then. At least I don't see such silliness among the posters now.
 
I think in an effort to help out more on rebounding and defending in the paint, we are leaving
the outside shooters more room.
Then last night, K. Bradley exposed BU in this regard.

BU ended up doing a GREAT job of shutting down Kyle Wilson, Phillip Thomasson, and Ryan Bradley (who combine for 31 points a game)
and we held them to only 10 points combined, 21 points below their combined average.
I wonder if we''l hear from those who said we can't defend the paint?

We really miss JC and of course the inside presence we'd have had with POB.

For those who said Jassey would give us a big boost, I still am not sure.
I think he's a year away from being an effective part of the offense.

Face it, sometimes team are going to shoot the lights out. We've had those nights, and last night the Shockers had one, going 11-19 from the arc, and 18-28 inside the arc.
 
tornado said:
I think in an effort to help out more on rebounding and defending in the paint, we are leaving
the outside shooters more room.
Then last night, K. Bradley exposed BU in this regard.

BU ended up doing a GREAT job of shutting down Kyle Wilson, Phillip Thomasson, and Ryan Bradley (who combine for 31 points a game)
and we held them to only 10 points combined, 21 points below their combined average.
I wonder if we''l hear from those who said we can't defend the paint?

We really miss JC and of course the inside presence we'd have had with POB.

For those who said Jassey would give us a big boost, I still am not sure.
I think he's a year away from being an effective part of the offense.

Face it, sometimes team are going to shoot the lights out. We've had those nights, and last night the Shockers had one, going 11-19 from the arc, and 18-28 inside the arc.
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Pretty much agree with everything here. That's why I am not overly discouraged with last night's game, and why I am confident we can give them all they can handle when they come to Peoria in 2 weeks.
 
To put it into perspective after the first five league games last year against a nearly identical schedule (the only difference is this year E'ville at home instead of Creighton, MSU instead of @ SIU and flip-flop locale for UNI):

2006 2-3
2007 1-3
 
squirrel said:
To put it into perspective after the first five league games last year against a nearly identical schedule (the only difference is this year E'ville at home instead of Creighton, MSU instead of @ SIU and flip-flop locale for UNI):

2006 2-3
2007 1-3
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Squirrel, I know you are trying to be optimistic, but last year we had a 7 foot center who was hitting his groove by mid-January and this year we have a very questionable frontline.

Guys, face it, if our guards don't have their "A" game on any given night, we will have a hard time winning that game...
 
A little more perspective -
And Bradley is missing it's leading scorer this year.....
and the Missouri Valley is better this year than last year....
and Bradley's leading returning scorer, rebounder, and shot blocker left school early and wasn't replaced.
 
You are right coach, here is more for perspective:

The Missouri Valley's RPI right now is #3 in the country according to Ken Pomeroy and #2 according to RealTimeRpi.com-
http://kenpom.com/confrank.php?y=2007
http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_conf_Men.html
Either way, the MVC's RPI is just 0.0058 behind the top conference this year, the Pac 10 (a conference the MVC finished ahead of last year).

But at the end of last year, the MVC was rated #6--
http://kenpom.com/confrank.php?y=2006

So that would seem like clear evidence that the MVC has gotten a lot better since last year.
But even more amazing, the MVC's actual numerical RPI of .5839 this year is significantly better than every conference last season (the #1 conference, the Big Ten had an RPI of .5802-
http://kenpom.com/confrank.php?y=2006

That means the MVC of this year would easily be the #1 conference in the country if it was placed into last year's computations.
So it seems logical that unless a team actually improved somewhat they would not be expected to do as well in conference play, even though they did well in non-conference play. Isn't that just what we are seeing? No surprise!
 
Scouter said:
MacabreMob said:
I think we overlooked WSU....

BU is looking more to the game on Saturday.

:?: 8)
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How do you overlook a team that was ranked in the top 10 two weeks ago?
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Ummmm....

Really?

I had no idea.

:roll:

I was trying to be funny - offer up a little comic-relief.
 
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