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Postgame thread- BYU 70 BU 60

We lacked fundamentals this game. We could have won if we hit ft's and had better ball control. SamM held the team up in the first half. CRob could be great if he would work on his fundamentals. McCain did not look good, save one gorgeous drive. Plenty of room to improve.
 
bottom line - -- same thing can be said for every basketball game. If you shoot better and rebound better than your opponent, you will win.

BU shot 36% from the floor and 65% from FT and got out rebounded by a margin of 12. I'm sure TB's presence would definitely help the rebounding margin, but I doubt his presence would lift the team's shooting stats sufficiently.

Seemed like the game was "closer" than the 10 point final margin. We got down by 7-9 points within the first 7 minutes of the game (when we were shooting 2-10) and then played level with BYU the rest of the way.

Could have been better... could have been worse... all in all, not a terrible way to start the season.

I think the point when the game decidedly turned in BYU's favor was when BU (DD I think) missed the front end of 1-and-1 in back to back possessions. That is when BYU stretched the lead from about 5 to 13 fairly quickly.
 
TB would have made a difference IMO. I'm not sure about winning though. Turnovers killed us! We need to protect the ball. Overall I'm optimistic about the team.
 
Da Coach said:
I think with Taylor Brown we probably could have won.
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I think with TB it would've been closer but I'm not convinced we would've won. This one doesn't sting that bad because without one of our arguably best players, we still managed to cover and almost kept it in single digits. Still lots of room to improve but I think BYU is better than most teams that we will see in the Valley.

For now let's move on and make sure we take care of business against Idaho St.
 
I agree with the general sentiment. Plenty to work on, but no reason at all to panic. I would like to see AW assert himself more. I know he's still shaking off the rust, but he had a very quiet 13. He needs to be the #1 option, not SM. (This isn't intended to be a knock on Sam at all. He had a nice game, and we definitely need his offense, too, but AW should be getting more shots than him.)
 
I just wanna say... TB woulda made a difference!

Not saying we woulda won, and not saying we woulda lost by a closer margin.

But GD it if we are gonna lean on ONE player!

Bradley basketball is beyond 1 PLAYER. WE ARE A TEAM!

No excuses - we went, we played (playing well enough, considering "everything"), and we lost.... to a very good team.
 
Da Coach said:
Did anyone hear any mention of why Milos never got in the game?
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I didn't hear anything but then again I spent a lot of time mingling with differently Bradley people at the Fieldhouse. Good question though, I thought he would've gotten into this game since TB was out.
 
I cannot believe we have McCain guarding Jimmer who is 6-3 and can shoot over Eddren at Will, where was Egolf during the last 6 minutes? Dunson cannot play 25 minutes and not score, I thought Sam, Andrew and Chris all played great, DSE looked good also even though he rimmed out a few shots, Thompson was fair but Singh needs to play much better, too many missed layups but a very good sign in that we never gave up and some made layups and freethrows and we are right in it.
Still don"t like our substituion patterns and if we play the right guys we will have a great season, just concerned why it seems like we don"t have the correct players in and this seems to be Jim"s mo.
 
I don't know....if that team is suppose to be top 25 caliber, I don't see us finishing 6th in the MVC. I saw plenty of good things, mostly we didn't fold the tents and continued to play hard and give effort. Plenty of room for improvement but alot to be encouraged by!
 
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