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Final: Evansville 66 Bradley 60

MVC standings after 8 games

Team.................MVC....Overall
Wichita State......8-0....21-0
Indiana State......7-1....16-4
Missouri State..ll..4-4....14-6
Illinois State...l....4-4....11-9
Northern Iowa..l...4-4...10-10
Bradley...............3-5....8-13
Loyola................3-5....8-12
Evansville......l.....3-5...10-11
Drake.................2-6....11-9
Southern Illinois..l.2-6....6-15
 
Did anyone else notice that when Walt Lemon made a driving layup with 3:19 left to cut Evansville's lead to 55-52, Geno called a timeout right after after the basket? Why stop the action there when we have a little momentum going?
I never liked the idea of calling timeout when your team has the momentum, unless it is for a necessary substitution. And Geno did not make any substitutions there, just seemed to want to stop the clock.
It was only a 30-second timeout, so there wasn't even any significant coaching during the stop.
 
This was a winnable game - they got almost half their points from the FT line and 40% from just one guy ..
We're still getting very little off our "deep bench" - and we have the worst passing post players I have ever seen - our trio of XT, Blake, & Pross who play the 5-position had zero assists & throw in TP who also had zero -
but this is not new...we ought to have the ability to kick it out to an open shooter but that simply never happens...
JP, CB, and XT combine for 13 assists on the year about one every other game!

Tuttle has 44 assists all by himself - he knows how and when to kick it to a shooter instead of being one-dimensional and forcing up bad shots.

Remember - after this season we lose:
- our best player
- top scorer
- our top rebounder
- the scholarship player with the best FG shooting pct
- the guy with the most FT's
- the guy who gets to the line the most
- our primary ballhandler
- our best assist guy
- our top guy in steals
- our top guy in offensive rebounds
- and the two most durable guys who have played the most minutes

Anyone think we're gonna be light years better next year besides KW?
 
Bradley should never,ever lose to a team of Freshman and Sophmores. The Freshmen are a few months out of high school. And we cant beat them. The 4th youngest team in the nation and we lose to them. TERRIBLE!!!!! No excuse...
 
It would be nice someday to watch Bradley play on Saturday in the MVC tournament in St Louis. I used to always look foward going to St Louis in early March. Even when I knew we did not have the best talent, I thought we could compete. This program is going nowhere out of Thursday in St Louis.
 
tornado said:
inexcusable - this should be addressed - had this happened in foregone eras - Dr. Cross would have dropped the hatchet.
BTW - UC Davis has lost five different starters for long stretches - three of them for the whole season - what's Bradley's excuse?
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It's Bush's fault????
 
tornado said:
This was a winnable game - they got almost half their points from the FT line and 40% from just one guy ..
We're still getting very little off our "deep bench" - and we have the worst passing post players I have ever seen - our trio of XT, Blake, & Pross who play the 5-position had zero assists & throw in TP who also had zero -
but this is not new...we ought to have the ability to kick it out to an open shooter but that simply never happens...
JP, CB, and XT combine for 13 assists on the year about one every other game!

Tuttle has 44 assists all by himself - he knows how and when to kick it to a shooter instead of being one-dimensional and forcing up bad shots.

Remember - after this season we lose:
- our best player
- top scorer
- our top rebounder
- the scholarship player with the best FG shooting pct
- the guy with the most FT's
- the guy who gets to the line the most
- our primary ballhandler
- our best assist guy
- our top guy in steals
- our top guy in offensive rebounds
- and the two most durable guys who have played the most minutes

Anyone think we're gonna be light years better next year besides KW?
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I don't disagree with this post but I must ask, who in the h-ll is the shooter our post guys are going to throw it out to. It's just so sad to watch us struggle with shooting but so much fun to watch us run and jump but forget to block out. Oh and did I forget to say our offensive schemes su-k. I get so sick watching us dribble ,dribble, dribble then throw up a piece of crap. I could go on but I'm getting sick typing this.
 
There are just too many times we see the same mistakes again and again and I'm really tired of it. In late game situations you can't let the other teams best player take a wide open uncontested shot. The one time we had a chance for the lead in the 2nd half and we don't try to run any offense and our worst offensive player ends up with a terrible shot. There's no rhyme or reason to our offense and our defense is either feast or famine. 1 and 24 on the road in the MVC is not what I was looking for after Jim Les was replaced. Far from it.
 
who is the shooter - well when we've aimed for Mason Alwan he's come thru...he is hitting 60% from the arc ;)
 
tornado said:
who is the shooter - well when we've aimed for Mason Alwan he's come thru...he is hitting 60% from the arc ;)
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He's going to struggle some though??¦he's not a secret and has hard time in other aspects of the game??¦..3 turnovers in 11 minutes doesn't help
 
lefty said:
He's going to struggle some though??¦he's not a secret and has hard time in other aspects of the game??¦..3 turnovers in 11 minutes doesn't help
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Who doesn't struggle on this team and who isn't a secret? Give me someone who can shoot the 3 at 60% and I'll overlook only 3 turnovers in 11 minutes.
 
Chico said:
Who doesn't struggle on this team and who isn't a secret? Give me someone who can shoot the 3 at 60% and I'll overlook only 3 turnovers in 11 minutes.
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Come on lets get serious. Mason may be our best shooter but is very limited in other areas like getting good looks and we certainly don't believe he's gonna get us to where we want to be. Great kid ,our best shooter but never gonna gets us out of Thur. night let alone competing for titles. We need a major overhaul and soon for Geno. 4 or 5 kids need to go and they better bring in a whole lot better shooters than what we have.
 
Geno has brought one good player to the hilltop in 3 years. What makes people think he can bring 3 or 4 good players in this spring?
 
wily coyote said:
Come on lets get serious. Mason may be our best shooter but is very limited in other areas like getting good looks and we certainly don't believe he's gonna get us to where we want to be. Great kid ,our best shooter but never gonna gets us out of Thur. night let alone competing for titles. We need a major overhaul and soon for Geno. 4 or 5 kids need to go and they better bring in a whole lot better shooters than what we have.
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Amen brother!! Could not agree more..
 
wily coyote said:
Come on lets get serious. Mason may be our best shooter but is very limited in other areas like getting good looks and we certainly don't believe he's gonna get us to where we want to be. Great kid ,our best shooter but never gonna gets us out of Thur. night let alone competing for titles. We need a major overhaul and soon for Geno. 4 or 5 kids need to go and they better bring in a whole lot better shooters than what we have.
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Not saying he's our savior, just asking who doesn't struggle on this team and who is a secret?
 
Unacceptable everything. It's not quite to bag on head status, but it isn't far either. ISU this Wednesday. Anyone here have equipment to make t-shits?
 
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