Well.....Creighton 73 BU 64

[Rusty 54]

Chris Roberts with 3 points on 1-8 shooting from the field in 27 minutes. We need more from him then that against teams like Creighton. Ouch. Got 9 rebounds though.

[braveatheart]

We need to find a way to get the ball to the post against the zone. I thought CU's bigs blocked a few shots early and altered a few shots and we stopped driving to the basket. We did get Walker to foul out but Lawson never got into trouble.
Instead of going 1-9 on threes in the 2nd half I would have loved to see us drive the ball more or at least pass into SS and DC. We kind of got away from what worked in the first 4 conference games.

[SFP]

We need to find a way to get the ball to the post against the zone. I thought CU's bigs blocked a few shots early and altered a few shots and we stopped driving to the basket. We did get Walker to foul out but Lawson never got into trouble.
Instead of going 1-9 on threes in the 2nd half I would have loved to see us drive the ball more or at least pass into SS and DC. We kind of got away from what worked in the first 4 conference games.

I would agree with you in most cases and I believe we need to work on our ability to feed the post but DC nor SS did much to warrent plays running through them yesterday. They allowed Lawson to dominate both of them and both seem not to be able to make the adjustments necessary to not be called for moving screens.

On another note the refs were consistant for the most part and called a decent game even though they call to many soft fouls in my opinion. I would wish the MVC would tell the officials to not call touch fouls. Some of TW fouls were just that. They were fouls but were really just soft touches that could have been not called.

[Big Mike]

I cannot understand why we don't toss the ball down low and back out to an open shooter from the 3....you know...the old inside-out play....instead of the aimless dribbling around the 3 pt line and weaving around wasting precious clock time and firing off a last sec shot to beat the clock? Seems like if the ball goes down low in our post it never comes back out and they are almost always going to shoot it!

[Out of Bounce]

I cannot understand why we don't toss the ball down low and back out to an open shooter from the 3....you know...the old inside-out play....instead of the aimless dribbling around the 3 pt line and weaving around wasting precious clock time and firing off a last sec shot to beat the clock? Seems like if the ball goes down low in our post it never comes back out and they are almost always going to shoot it!

Ha Mike, I am not sure I understand this. Last night SS 0-3 and DC 0-1 thats 4 total shots by the to post players for the night. Does that mean they only got the ball 4 times in the post and they shot it every time There was 18 3's shot by BU last night and they made 6. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT trying or looking for a reason to justify the terrible play that was displayed by our post players
SS had just no fire under him and hardly put a body on anyone and DC he was just in one of his daze modes again. We cannot Win the MVC if these two don't wake up and put a body on someone, **** it Its just inexcusable from two seniors.
As for all the passing around the perimeter and taking the last sec shot I can't agree more with you

[Big Mike]

I just think it would open up more good looks for the guards and make the D' have to adjust more...go ahead and watch the previous games and you'll see...every time it goes down low it almost never comes back out...so any scouting report would say...crowd the paint when the ball comes in because the post players are about to shoot! I say change it up once in a while and not be so predictable.....I said before the game that a zone against the Braves killed them for a while agaisnt isu and cu watched that game tape and employed it....either we start hitting 3's or open looks or drive into the zone passing back out to an open man or hitting someone for an open lay-up....too-much driving with no purpose IMO!

[SFP]

Our guards also do not know how to pass it to the post and our bigs do not work hard enough to get good low post position or they maybe just frustrated that when they are in good position they rarely receive it. Our guys need to look at how Mich. St. played against Kansas on Saturday.

[Big Mike]

Seems like the centers # 1 job is to set a screen at the top of the key!

[Out of Bounce]

Seems like the centers # 1 job is to set a screen at the top of the key!

I think your right.

[Out of Bounce]

Our guards also do not know how to pass it to the post and our bigs do not work hard enough to get good low post position or they maybe just frustrated that when they are in good position they rarely receive it. Our guys need to look at how Mich. St. played against Kansas on Saturday.

I'll agree with you. And the part about the guards, goes with what BigM said about passing and passing out on the perimeter and shooting a last sec. shot as the clock runs down. Pass the ball into the post.