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MSU 86 - Bradley 78

It was a very good college basketball game.....the refs should have let the player's decide the outcome though! :x
 
Re: MSU 86 - Bradley 78

Da Coach said:
Tough loss for Bradley. I thought they played very well, but a lot of loong rebounds and loose balls went MSU's way. And for some reason they shot several times a many free throws as Bradley.

Missouri State 86 - Bradley 78

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There may have been a few questionable calls, but BU did a TERRIBLE job of boxing out, defending on the perimeter, and finishing point-blank shots. Missouri St gave us every opportunity to seize control of the game, and much like the less successful teams of recent years, we shot ourselves in the foot at every opportunity. JC's absence had very little to do with the outcome of this game. Terrible defense and even worse efforts on the boards is what lost this game.

Also, it's hard to get to the line when you shoot 34 3's, but that's the way we have to play due to our personnel, so the FT disparity doesn't concern me as much.
 
i'm sorry, and i don't mean to complain...but the officiating was once again pretty shotty, they were in the bonus with about 12 mins left in the second half and in double bonus with around 7:30 left, 10 to 4 at one point...
we defintely played good enough to win, hats off to missouri for playing a tough game.
good production from DA and Warren and the tandem of zack and salley looked good tonight
 
Dave Snell said new Bradley record......35 3's taking out the old record of 33 attemps! :-o

Congrats to DA for stepping it up and AW for putting in some quality minutes! :wink:
 
A game we could have won and maybe should have won. Just too many lost opportunities. We didn???‚¬?„?t finish some drives, lost some inside passes that would have been dunks, and couldn???‚¬?„?t get the ball on some scrums.

We got out rebounded 46 ???‚¬??? 21. That stat alone should have spelled defeat. If it wasn???‚¬?„?t enough the Bears were 26 ???‚¬??? 30 from the line while we were 6 ???‚¬??? 9.

On the plus side Danny Adams and Andrew Warren filled in for JC very well. Drew didn???‚¬?„?t hesitate on his 3 pointers which he had started to do. Zach had an amazing drive down the lane as if he could fly.

There were at least two recruits at the game. One was a white kid who has been at a game before. I never saw him standing so I do not know his height. Then there was a black kid who definitely is a big. Anyone got anymore more info on these kids.

Well we now face two rough road games. It will be tough. Go Braves.
 
Also want to give Matt Salley some credit.....he played a nice game and had at least 3 put-backs! DR and WF had their usaul complete games! This next week could put BU behind the 8 ball with playing WS there and DU at their place! :idea:
 
Here's something that has not been pointed out yet and it drove me nuts in the second half.

TOO MANY FANCY HOT-DOG PASSES THAT TURNED INTO LOST BALLS! 2 tunrovers in the first half and 9 in the second. A couple of the guys got "too cute" with their passes in crunch time and those turnovers cost BU big-time. Those type of passes look great in blowouts, but leave them at home in a close game against a good team.
 
I think we lost because of our home court {dis}advantage

I think we lost because of our home court {dis}advantage

This being the fact the refs consistently call so many more fouls on Bradley. Think Hitower (however you want to spell it). Think Sanchez. Think the white haired dude I have never known the name of who officiates in the same manner. These three should be example enough of the disparity in foul calling in our never to be enjoyed home court advantage in this regard. There is one area of play I can give the refs a break in, however. Our once again consistent miserable layup make percentage. How many more years will we as fans be putting up with miss after miss after miss after miss while the other team in the cut of the game ambles right on down to make a layup of their own? This business of the coach not being able to make a more distinctive point of getting screwed by pathetic officiating is bogus as is our said inablity of making such easy baskets. :!: :!: :!:
 
georgethedog said:
Here's something that has not been pointed out yet and it drove me nuts in the second half.

TOO MANY FANCY HOT-DOG PASSES THAT TURNED INTO LOST BALLS! 2 tunrovers in the first half and 9 in the second. A couple of the guys got "too cute" with their passes in crunch time and those turnovers cost BU big-time. Those type of passes look great in blowouts, but leave them at home in a close game against a good team.
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That was part of what I was trying to point out saying lost opportunities. I was being nice, but you are right.
 
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Re: I think we lost because of our home court {dis}advantage

asurfaceofone said:
This being the fact the refs consistently call so many more fouls on Bradley. Think Hitower (however you want to spell it). Think Sanchez. Think the white haired dude I have never known the name of who officiates in the same manner. These three should be example enough of the disparity in foul calling in our never to be enjoyed home court advantage in this regard. There is one area of play I can give the refs a break in, however. Our once again consistent miserable layup make percentage. How many more years will we as fans be putting up with miss after miss after miss after miss while the other team in the cut of the game ambles right on down to make a layup of their own? This business of the coach not being able to make a more distinctive point of getting screwed by pathetic officiating is bogus as is our said inablity of making such easy baskets. :!: :!: :!:
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To complain about the officials is to be like an Illini fan.

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Mike Radigan said:
georgethedog said:
Here's something that has not been pointed out yet and it drove me nuts in the second half.

TOO MANY FANCY HOT-DOG PASSES THAT TURNED INTO LOST BALLS! 2 tunrovers in the first half and 9 in the second. A couple of the guys got "too cute" with their passes in crunch time and those turnovers cost BU big-time. Those type of passes look great in blowouts, but leave them at home in a close game against a good team.
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That was part of what I was trying to point out saying lost opportunities. I was being nice, but you are right.
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Sorry Mike, I must have read your post too quick... It's late... Thanks.
 
I thought a huge; telling possession of the game was the turnover DA caused. He tips the ball, dives after it at half court, and tips it towards our basket. We pick up the ball and run the floor. Can't remember who had the ball, but threw a pass to Salley, who promptly misses the ball. MState takes the ball, scores, and instead of us being down two, we're down 6! I felt like that was kind of a turning point.
 
There were several similar situations where Bradley made a nice steal, and had an easy basket, but then somehow it broke down and they ended up not getting any points out of it.

We all know these things happen in a fast paced game. But this team has been so good at finishing all year, and I can't recall seeing any such flubs in the previous games, so to see them do it several times tonight was frustrating.
 
Agreed. It was VERY frustrating to see.

Was really glad to see DA and AW play well though. I was surprised to see AW only played 15 min. It felt like more. He was pretty effective when in.
 
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Re: I think we lost because of our home court {dis}advantage

MacabreMob said:
To complain about the officials is to be like an Illini fan.
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It is not necessarily "complaining" just to point out the incredible discrepancy in number of times our guys went to the line vs. theirs.

And it cannot be explained away just because we shot a lot of threes, since we points in the paint were almost exactly even.

Nope-- the difference was that when MSU had the ball in the post, there were two refs (both the gray haired ones) who awarded a foul every single time they did their back up move and pounded into their defender.
The third ref, never once blew a single one of those calls and was a bit astounded on occasion when the other two guys did.
For the BU guys to play their heart out and be within a shot of winning this game, then have the whole thing turn on a couple calls that kept sending their 90% FTers to the line was awful tough to swallow.

But for a team that lost its best returning player to the NBA, then had their best player and top shooter out with injury, I am still proud, and am confident we can win on the road and get this one back, and we can be a considerable force in the MVC Tourney. At 1-2 in the Valley, we are still ahead of Wichita State and a couple other, so we need to play harder and get one back on the road.
 
Re: I think we lost because of our home court {dis}advantage

Re: I think we lost because of our home court {dis}advantage

tornado said:
MacabreMob said:
To complain about the officials is to be like an Illini fan.
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It is not necessarily "complaining" just to point out the incredible discrepancy in number of times our guys went to the line vs. theirs.

And it cannot be explained away just because we shot a lot of threes, since we points in the paint were almost exactly even.

Nope-- the difference was that when MSU had the ball in the post, there were two refs (both the gray haired ones) who awarded a foul every single time they did their back up move and pounded into their defender.
The third ref, never once blew a single one of those calls and was a bit astounded on occasion when the other two guys did.
For the BU guys to play their heart out and be within a shot of winning this game, then have the whole thing turn on a couple calls that kept sending their 90% FTers to the line was awful tough to swallow.

But for a team that lost its best returning player to the NBA, then had their best player and top shooter out with injury, I am still proud, and am confident we can win on the road and get this one back, and we can be a considerable force in the MVC Tourney. At 1-2 in the Valley, we are still ahead of Wichita State and a couple other, so we need to play harder and get one back on the road.
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Smarter not harder.....I think this team plays hard all the time. I LOVE the effort. We got away from who we are for a short stretch trying TOO hard to go down low. I realize you have to but to many forced passes and cute passes.

With that said we also need to finish......just recall how many times we had lost legit opportunities.

WF passes to MS on a breakaway where he had the layup. ZA fumbling away a perfect pass from JJ for an easy dunk. AW leading a fast break and we get nothing.....we didn't finish and you can't give this very good team in Mo State any extra chances.
 
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