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Final score- St. Joseph's 86 Bradley 81

I'm excited about this season more than I have been in years. I'm definitely watching tonight. Also super interested in the newcomers especially Stephen Gabriel and Ville.
 
Like so many others - I am just "SO FIRED UP" to finally be able to watch this years Bradley Basketball team in action. After last years ending to the regular season, the MVC tournament, and the NCAA first round - I wanted more - and well - I just had to wait. It truly excites me to view what others are saying about the crop of new players for this season. Less than - 5 hours and counting. Looking forward to seeing everyone on the Bradley chat room. GO BRAVES ...
 
I’m always excited about the start of a new season but this year’s season might have as much anticipation and optimism since the 05-06 season. Maybe even the 85-86 season. The returning players seem to have gained a lot of confidence from last seasons post season run and this might be one the best class of newcomers in some time. 1st games can be tricky especially since St Joe’s is playing their 1st game under a new coach so we just need to establish ourselves early and often and don’t give them any confidence about winning this one. Pull them laces tight boys and kick ass. GO BU BABY!
 
Halftime... Pretty one-sided with the fouls. They are calling everything on us. Hope we can clamp down on them defensively in the 2nd half and use our superior athleticism off the dribble. Brown with two fouls, can't have him in foul trouble. Gabriel forcing things too much. Bet we have a shorter bench in 2nd half. Let Ville chuck em up. Love watching him shoot.
 
Da Coach said:
Bradley leads St. Joseph's at halftime 45-43.
Stats-
http://www.sjuhawks.com/liveStats/v2/basketball/index.dbml?GAME_STAT_ID=3204283&db_oem_id=31200

Bradley has played well offensively, but defense leaves a bit to be desired. And we have to stop fouling. SJU is 10-11 from the FT line.
Bradley has been called for 14 fouls to just 4 for St. Joseph's. Most of the calls on Bradley were deserved, but a couple were gifts to SJU.
Bradley outrebounding SJU 22-10.
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Correction- Rebounding is BU 27 - SJU 13
 
Not the outcome I expected especially after the first half. Coach Wardle has his work cut out for him. Lots of talent to mesh together. Elijah had body language issues again in the 2nd half to the point of taking one off the head and causing a turnover in crunch time. There was a lot of quit on display. Disappointing loss!
 
Really disorganized and out of sorts in the 2nd half. Very disappointing loss. Need these out of conference games to build our resume. Would like to see more of Ville, especially when we are struggling with our shots. Who was guarding Daily? He just killed us.
 
An Absolutely awful game!! We were not ready to play. Our big guns went in the tank. Where was Ville? Our best shooter wasn't able to help.
Wizard
 
The Braves were outplaying St. Joes during the first half and then "the refs" stepped in and called virtually everything St Joes way and at times I think Bradley was afraid to truly defend because everything they did was a foul and yet Childs and all can get whacked and nothing.... Fouls - 28 Bradley - 14 St Joes. So reminiscent of last years "at Drake" game. If anything this will be a learning experience for all. At the end the Braves appeared hurried and rattled. A good learning experience for the team on a hostile court with very poor refereeing ..
 
This game was certainly winnable but ultimately didn't shoot well enough and fouled too much. The good news was that we had 5 guys in double figures but down the stretch just didn't play good enough to win. You could tell on the radio after the game that Wardle was really disappointed in their execution. I expect a couple of hard practices the next two days. Hopefully we got the 1st game blues out of the way and come home on Saturday and kick butt.
 
I’ll give them this one. Lots of new guys need to gel. Gotta have court leadership from Childs... didn’t see enough of that. Refs did suck... every 50/50 call went to the home team. We will be ok. We will be better than last year.
 
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