CLo Outcoached?

[Da Coach]

I was hoping our friend Carlton Fay would have had a better game......but its great to see BU step up their game and come away with a BIG W....SIU will beat some good teams on the road....

Carlton appeared to get a cramp in his right calf when jumping for a first half rebound. He was never the same after that and was limping after he was taken out of the game. I hope he's OK.

[tornado]

I like CFay and I wish he had come to BU!

[chitown fanatic]

SIU is a good team and we beat them

Clo is a good coach and he was outcoached today...no knock on anyone, so why start picking on the posters already?
Fact is fact and the BU announcers saw it also...we were better prepared and our coaching staff outcoached theirs.
They could have used ten more timeout and it still wouldn't have helped.


A whole lot of people were dead wrong about this game and dead wrong about Bradley (just go back and look at the predictions thread), but I am happy they were.

count me in the dead wrong category. This was a big surprise and a great effort on both ends of the floor by BU. A complete demolition, and yes, Lowery was very much outcoached. However, if we lay an egg in both roadies coming up, this will be for naught. We need this effort each and every game. We must win at least one of the next two.

[Da Coach]

If we can duplicate this effort today, we can win both of them.

[dogsrus]

count me in the dead wrong category. This was a big surprise and a great effort on both ends of the floor by BU. A complete demolition, and yes, Lowery was very much outcoached. However, if we lay an egg in both roadies coming up, this will be for naught. We need this effort each and every game. We must win at least one of the next two.

Nobody that has been down on BU has been wrong CHitown. We haven't looked good. Today we did. I hope we can keep it up. All around great effort. Go BU.

[thefish7]

Carlton appeared to get a cramp in his right calf when jumping for a first half rebound. He was never the same after that and was limping after he was taken out of the game. I hope he's OK.

That also was some sketchy reffing on that one, I thought. Fay came up with a cramp, and an injury timeout was called, but Fay stayed in the game and SIU wasn't charged a TO.

[Braves4Life]

I also agree that Coach Les and staff did a GREAT job of preparing for this game and the players executed very well. It really seemed as though we got away from the weave offense and ran a much more conventional offense -- I like that. I think the weave offense has been effective in the past when we had better shooters and more experienced players, but this team seems to be more effective in a traditional "drive and dish" offense.

Good win today Braves!

[BUBrave28]

First of all, what defense were we playing when Edge went basically under the hoop? It seemed like we played some of our best defense in that set. Edge looked like he was always there to cut off any backdoor attempts and even mixed it up with the big guys, often getting in better position than them for rebounds. He seemed very disruptive at times.

I thought that the officials missed a few calls both ways. I think it was Theron got pushed a few times on rebound attempts that they missed. I also think Roberts got smacked on a lay up attempt and there was no call. One bad call that went for the Braves was in the 2nd half when I believe Edge went up for a lay up, defender got all ball and the trailing ref made the call mid-sprint.

Maybe that mask gave Sam some tunnel vision. Keep the blinders on!

Looks to me like CLo might have someone else (MoSt) in the conference running his defensive mindset a little better at this point. That was one of the worst shooting performances I think I have seen out of a team. The SIU fans at the game were yelling at him during our free throws in the last 8 minutes.

[Da Coach]

First of all, what defense were we playing when Edge went basically under the hoop?

Bradley looked like they were playing a 2-3 zone with Eddren under the basket. It seemed very effective.

[Out of Bounce]

First of all, what defense were we playing when Edge went basically under the hoop? It seemed like we played some of our best defense in that set. Edge looked like he was always there to cut off any backdoor attempts and even mixed it up with the big guys, often getting in better position than them for rebounds. He seemed very disruptive at times.

I thought that the officials missed a few calls both ways. I think it was Theron got pushed a few times on rebound attempts that they missed. I also think Roberts got smacked on a lay up attempt and there was no call. One bad call that went for the Braves was in the 2nd half when I believe Edge went up for a lay up, defender got all ball and the trailing ref made the call mid-sprint.

Maybe that mask gave Sam some tunnel vision. Keep the blinders on!

Looks to me like CLo might have someone else (MoSt) in the conference running his defensive mindset a little better at this point. That was one of the worst shooting performances I think I have seen out of a team. The SIU fans at the game were yelling at him during our free throws in the last 8 minutes.

I believe the defence when Edge was under the hoop was a 1-3-1. It was one of a couple good coaching changes in this game as SM in earlier games was the guy under the hoop. Much better with Edge, as this kid can jump and go after the ball

[pfunk880]

A whole lot of people were dead wrong about this game and dead wrong about Bradley (just go back and look at the predictions thread), but I am happy they were.

It was a good game, but it's one game.

Let's not go overboard. Just like the so-called "negnels" shouldn't get crazy after a loss, we shouldn't get big heads after a win.

[Out of Bounce]

I also agree that Coach Les and staff did a GREAT job of preparing for this game and the players executed very well. It really seemed as though we got away from the weave offense and ran a much more conventional offense -- I like that. I think the weave offense has been effective in the past when we had better shooters and more experienced players, but this team seems to be more effective in a traditional "drive and dish" offense.

Good win today Braves!

I agree B4L, and I thought putting CR in there along with the good job our bigs did was the key to the win

[wily coyote]

bad calls are bad calls....but all the travelling calls on SIU were legit.
Gimme an example of a bad call on SIU?

tornado, you need to get off this bad call bad call talk. It was a great win why don't you expound on that more and worry less about a few calls. Heres a news flash for you. There never has been a perfect game called and there never will be. So whats the big deal,let it go. We all know SIU is a bunch of thugs and we should be glad the game was called like it was. The officials called the muggings end of story. Great win Braves now on to Shocker land for a road win.

[wily coyote]

I like CFay and I wish he had come to BU!

I agree he would have looked good a Braves uni.

[Rusty 54]

It was a good game, but it's one game.

Let's not go overboard. Just like the so-called "negnels" shouldn't get crazy after a loss, we shouldn't get big heads after a win.

If we cant get a big head after a win what's the point?!?!?!