Bradley vs. East Tennessee State University- Sat. 11/29, 7:05 pm

[Bradleyguy10]

17-2

3 for 3 on 3pointers...nice start

5 for 5 i think he said on fg's...keep this up all season haha

[bucfaithful]

Watching the game on video stream. You guys have beautiful facilities. I think the rims are crooked on our end Pigram is ice cold.

[bucfaithful]

The 1st half obviously killed us--you guys obviously had something to with that.

Best of luck the rest of the season. I hope the young man is not seriously injured.

Go Bucs.

[Bradleyguy10]

I predicted that we'd win by 11 but it would be a closer game than that.

I was way off. We won by 13 but it should have been worse than that. This is unfortunate for us. We can never seem to get through a year with our players and injuries. A major injury for our star player AW...who knows how long he is out for...definitely not playing against MSU. Now we find a guy that can play well for us in the middle and is athletic and contributes in a way that doesn't show up in the stats and he will not play against MSU and possibly out the rest of the season. SM with his foot...how long will that linger? I'm just so tired of this kind of stuff for BU...it's really disheartening. I feel bad for JL and the team...it's almost like clock-work. We hit a little bit of a stride and right away something happens that ruins an integral part of our success.


Anthony Thompson should have gotten playing time over DC....we REALLY REALLY know what we are getting out of DC this year and we need AT and SS to step it up now immensely.

[amettrick]

BU wins 82-69!!!

I was forced to watch the whole thing via stat-tracker while at work, but it sure looks like the Braves played pretty well. They definitely had their best shooting performance so far. 26-45 (57.8%) FG, 13-24 (54.4%) 3-PT, and 17-20 (85.0%) FT. That's some darn fine shooting.

The only bad stat I see is 17 turnovers, which is still WAY too many. But When you shoot that well, I guess the turnover don't hurt too badly.

Dodie and CR both obviously had nice games with 17 and 16 points respectively, but the performance that stands out to me is SM with 9 points, 8 assists and 0 turnovers. That's something we really needed out of him.

[BUFAN]

The 1st half obviously killed us--you guys obviously had something to with that.

Best of luck the rest of the season. I hope the young man is not seriously injured.

Go Bucs.

thankx buc, you shoulda joined our chat

[Bradleyguy10]

The good

we shot 57.8% and 54.4% from 3.....wow
and free throws were 85%
we outrebounded them defensively 27 to 19 however we only got 1 offensive rebound compared to their 9...which evens out the total to 28 a piece
we had 20 assists
personal fouls was only 11
and 4 blocks

the bad

1 offensive rebound
17 turnovers!
Will Egolf....


notes:

points in paint were 30 and 30
points off turnovers were 17 and 11 favoring ETSU
2nd chance points were 11 and 3 favoring ETSU
fast break points were 17 and 6 favoring ETSU
bench points were 18 and 22 favoring BU


overall a good game...would've been a fantastic game had WE not gone down..it's ashame

[bucfaithful]

We won by 13 but it should have been worse than that.

Not sure about that. You guys shot 56% from the 3-pt territory. I seriously doubt you'll duplicate that again this year. We shot 25%. I seriously doubt we'll shoot that poorly the rest of the season. At least I hope we don't.

I haven't seen the box scores, but rebounding and points in the paint were very close.

Could of, should of, would of...you'll still beat us. My only point is that this game was decided on the perimeter. Good/bad shooting nights tend to make teams look very good/very bad, whatever the case may be.

[Bradleyguy10]

We won by 13 but it should have been worse than that.

Not sure about that. You guys shot 56% from the 3-pt territory. I seriously doubt you'll duplicate that again this year. We shot 25%. I seriously doubt we'll shoot that poorly the rest of the season. At least I hope we don't.

I haven't seen the box scores, but rebounding and points in the paint were very close.

Could of, should of, would of...you'll still beat us. My only point is that this game was decided on the perimeter. Good/bad shooting nights tend to make teams look very good/very bad, whatever the case may be.

No..I'm not saying that we'll shoot that every night or that you will shoot that percentage every night. What I'm saying is that on this night if Will Egolf had not gone down the mild comeback that ETSU had after that would not have happened. I don't know if it was because we were forced to put in a lack luster David Collins or if it was because our players' hearts weren't in it anymore and were thinking about Egolf instead or maybe it was a mixture of both. But there is no denying that after Egolf went down our intensity and play went down and ETSU saw a glimmer of hope and ran with it. I'm not basing what I said on shooting percentages; I'm basing it on something that happened that doesn't show up on a stat sheet. If you think that comeback would've happened had Egolf not gone down than I'm sorry but I think you are wrong and we can agree to disagree. We win by 20+ had that not happened...that's all I'm saying....but it did happen and we won by 13.

[Big Mike]

WE win by 25 if WE does not go down...the team hit the wall after the injury on both ends...the score does not indicate the game at all...wasn't even close!

[shaunguth]

One team was basically a three-man team and the other was obviously a deeper, more balanced team. Not to mention the fact that we had three freshmen on the floor at the same time for a 6-7 minute stretch in the 2nd half and a center that has only played six total minutes the last two games. In fact, our freshmen played 56 minutes as opposed to the 40 they had averaged over the first five games of the season.

[dogsrus]

Lots of teams don't know how to play with a big lead.

You see it many times and here it from the losing team alot. I have heard BU fans say the same thing. "hey, I like the way we battled and made it close down the stretch"...."had a few buckets dropped late we had a shot at winning"....while its nice for a team not to quit and to rally a bit IMO, more often then not its a case of what I mentioned...teams don't know how to play with big leads.

Some of its coaching and some is just mental where you back of with a big cushion.

Had the game gone on another 10 minutes the team behind thinks,,"yes we were rallying....the game just ended to soon'. I disagree and think the team rallying usually runs out of gas...the better team that was pounding them all game wakes up and the lead grows back to the wide margin it was.

JL called of many of the dogs also as SM and TW sat for good stretches and let the freshman gain some crunch time experience.

WE doesn't go down and I agree with Mike...25 easy.

[Big Mike]

I also heard JL say in the post-game the staff wanted to rest SM and his foot...but with the Bucs making a run they had to put TW & SM back into the game!