Couple o' bright spots from tonight...

[MacabreMob]

How about the 6 free Wings at Buff Wild Wings for everyone cause the guy hit the 1/2 court shot?!?!

[pfunk880]

I don't know where all the negativism comes from, but from what I saw-

Theron Wilson, Sam Maniscalco, and Chris Roberts played great.
David Collins had a much better game. Eddren was solid again, too.

And, Bradley controlled the game, and won easily. Now on the the MVC season. I am confident Bradley will be 1-0 after Sunday.

Another bright spot - some of our fans are apparently also great comedians.

We controlled the game and won easily?!?! A six point game against a transitional D1 school that just got pounded on the road the night before?

[Da Coach]

I was never worried.

[pfunk880]

I was never worried.

I never worried either... about losing the game. But the fact that we barely squeaked out in a game the walk-ons should have been able to get into has me very worried about the conference season.

[mrcoachdude]

I never worried either... about losing the game. But the fact that we barely squeaked out in a game the walk-ons should have been able to get into has me very worried about the conference season.

Just a hunch....but I think we will be fine in the Valley.....sometimes young teams play to the level of the team they are playing against

[chitown fanatic]

but we won easily. especially our 9-22 or whatever from the line that really iced it!

[braves12]

Another positive was the little boy who nailed the free throw at the beginning of the half time contest for the longest shot......maybe he has eligibility remaining.

[SaintLouBrave22]

And here I thought someone would talk up the play of our starting center

[ER3]

Post of the year Peoriakid...post of the year. Look for a 'myths busted' post coming later to tell you how wrong you are on everything.

And a rambling list of "fallacies" that we haters have all been propping up as truths...

[SaintLouBrave22]

And to think no one mentioned the guy that got everyone free wings...

C'mon you guys...that was by far the best shot we've seen all year

[MacabreMob]

And to think no one mentioned the guy that got everyone free wings...

C'mon you guys...that was by far the best shot we've seen all year

I did in a couple other threads. And someone else did in another.

Check the new game thread/sticky for the SIU game.

[Bradleyguy10]

Just a hunch....but I think we will be fine in the Valley.....sometimes young teams play to the level of the team they are playing against

I agree. Just based off of my gut I think we beat SIUC. You said it perfectly, I think we are a team that plays to the level of competition. Believe me if you look at my posts I'm not one of the kool-aid drinkers. I am upset, frustrated, and worried; and I don't lay significance on a win is a win. A 30 point win in this game is much different than a 6 point win. So therefore I'm not like some who are being accused of wearing "rose colored glasses" or w/e, but as of right now I think we'll be ok, but I truly mean ok as in average. Just based on my gut though...if I go with my head I'd like to SCREAM "thursday night in STL"

I guess this makes me a moderate.

I think we are truly going to have to take each and every game at a time this season.

[tornado]

hmmm...I don't know why all the pessimism....I saw a win against a team roughly on par with all the opponents ISU is getting nice writeups for beating.
Maybe the pessimists would have been happier if our schedule was full of Morehead State's and Alabama State's so we could win them all?

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=10399

[ser_solace]

hmmm...I don't know why all the pessimism....I saw a win against a team roughly on par with all the opponents ISU is getting nice writeups for beating.
Maybe the pessimists would have been happier if our schedule was full of Morehead State's and Alabama State's so we could win them all?

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=10399

It's not pessimism if the facts support it. We're just not a very good team right now with a lot of fundamentals to address.

As far as I know, no one on this board is doing those "nice writeups" on ISU's wins. In fact, with the way we performed last night, we might not even win out with ISU's schedule.

[tornado]

ss-- I agree we are not a very good team right now, but we have 3 potential starters out and are playing with all freshmen and other 1st & 2nd year guys.
We can find things to dwell on and agonize over and we can find things to criticize, but will that make things better?

I still enjoy the games, and despite being a holiday, students gone, non-marquee opponent, and horrible weather....we still had well over 8000 fans enjoying a win...that gives us a winning record and an RPI nearly as good as the team down the road with an 11-0 record. (our home attendance is nearly double or more what most of the Valley draws.)
Seems we might just have more to be thankful for than to criticize, but I guess that won't stop people from doing so, it's their constitutional right, you know...