I have a hard time in thinking that Jim Les is getting blamed so much for our poor play this season as without all the injuries we would have a good team. I do not agree with him playing 3 small guards or with his choice at the center position but when a team can play so well in one half of the game and so poorly in the other half it has to boil down to the players performance as we seem to miss a lot of wide open shots and way too many layups.
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The Seat May Be Warmer, But I Don't Think It's That Warm
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The AD has said these 2 programs are not comparable. Revenue generating sports are treated differently than other sports.
houstontxbrave
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So there you go she gets to muddle along with a sub par program because she cant win enough to even try to generate money or interest, while if anyone else who makes money is under a micorscope.
Makes perfect sense.
BradleyBrave
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I think the leash for Paula will be shorter when they have brand new facilities to work with and recruit with. Of any program at BU, the women's basketball program has had the least to work with facility-wise over the years.
houstontxbrave
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Fine they are 7-2 this season, she has been an absolutely bad coach for every other season prior to this one... I have documented several times how overall and in the conference her records are terrible. You are welcome to go ahead and tell all of us what she has done as the Bradley head coach since her hire, I am sure many would be surprised someone with such poor overall numbers kept her job.
She should have been fired, if any firing was based on a win lose record. She has a very long ways to go to deserve the position of head basketball coach. 7-2 in what year 9 of her reign, is not justification enough for her still being head basketball coach.
Volleyball had the same facility-wise, what about the facility of swimming all of those plus virtually every other sport outside of baseball and mens basketball had facility challenges.
SaintLouBrave22
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No, the real question is, are they for real or is this another season they get into conference and tank?
I think BB's posts have been generally dead on. JL is not on any seat right now even though I believe he has to take some responsibility for last nights fiasco.
If we stay healthy, everyone stays or shows up, and everyone improves and learns the system we should win the MVC in 2 years, period. This year is the price we are going to pay in order to get to where we are heading. Next year we will be better and if we learn to get the ball to the post, AW is healthy, WE is the man we believe he is and we learn to play some decent D then we will be better then my expectations.
If we stay healthy, everyone stays or shows up, and everyone improves and learns the system we should win the MVC in 2 years, period. This year is the price we are going to pay in order to get to where we are heading. Next year we will be better and if we learn to get the ball to the post, AW is healthy, WE is the man we believe he is and we learn to play some decent D then we will be better then my expectations.
I'm not overreacting but I'm just trying to be a realist right now as BB has pointed out to me that I sip the Kool-aid a little to much. If we continue to play this way we'll be lucky not to play on Thursday in St. Louis. This team for better or worse does not have the luxury to take even a minute off. There is no room for errors. UW-M is a team we should have beaten IMHO and for some reason the first 20 minutes we made them look like a top 20 team. How many 3s did they hit during the 1st half? Who scouted them? We left them open for toooooo many 3s. These were shots that a decent YMCA player could hit. These were shots that SM must be hitting in practice.
On another note I like that SM drives inside and keeps his guy honest but that should be an exception and not the norm. He also shoots the 3 sooooo much better when he is set and in rhythm then when he is trying to create it himself.
We also need to keep him from guarding the other teams best offensive player. I'm sorry to say that Boyle was schooling him. That's not an insult to him, I'm sure Boyle has and will school a lot of players. I'm just not sure why we had him on Boyle.
I agree with most of your posts on this thread. My only difference, albeit slight, is that I think we need to see what type of recruiting JL can do after the new facilities are completed.
mrcoachdude
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With Warren, Egolf, now SamS playing healthy..we don't have this thread......not to metion SamM being completely healthy......
I do agree with Lefty though...seems like some basics are missing.... how many times did Versace say.....that was a bad shot or that was a good shot, but not in this situation...
UMW shot lights out..poor D? or just great shooting?
I do agree with Lefty though...seems like some basics are missing.... how many times did Versace say.....that was a bad shot or that was a good shot, but not in this situation...
UMW shot lights out..poor D? or just great shooting?
BradleyBrave
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We're letting bad shooting teams shoot the lights out almost nightly. I don't think teams are just having 'a good night'.
Always proud to wear my Bradley stuff.
This is what I am wondering. Many of the three point baskets in the first half were low-percentage, 24+ foot shots by players who had poor 3-point percentages for the season, and many of them were guarded fairly well. Even the UWM fans around us were shaking their heads in amazement at which players were taking the shots and making them.
It does seem this happens almost every game, but I am not sure any defense will stop those kinds of shots.
BradleyBrave
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Yes, this has something to do with it. The first problem is that the shots are largely uncontested. The second part is that when they are contested, they are contested by undersized guards, so essentially they are uncontested. I don't care how bad a team is, most DI teams will make a high percentage of uncontested shots. We don't contest shots. Sure, the UWM people may have been a bit surprised that the shtos were going in like they were, but I think if they watched the tape they would see how wide open a large number of the 1st half looks were.
I agree that in the 1st half the shots were uncontested, why was the defense so much better in the 2nd half? I also agree that a 6-2 or taller guard can take a smaller guard into the lane and shoot over him even though he is guarding him.
My lineup would be:
Maniscalco
Dunson
Wilson
Brown
Singh
McCain , Roberts, Norris and Thompson off the bench.
My lineup would be:
Maniscalco
Dunson
Wilson
Brown
Singh
McCain , Roberts, Norris and Thompson off the bench.