Bu 56 WC 54

[thefish7]

True. Not to mention that our posessions were pretty deliberate due to all the passing involved and consuming plenty of clock.

[Braves4Life]

Why pull back the reigns when the lead could have easily been 20 by the 5 minute mark where you then can ease back a bit?

But what would your reaction be if this caused us to be down 5-10 instead? It's easy to play Monday morning quarterback. Let's just say that a win is a win and go on to Presby with a smile and another notch in our belt. Like a good baseball manager Les simply played the numbers to get the W.

[thefish7]

Yeah, I guess I'm not as concerned with how it worked last night... Just more interested in the fact that we seem to be pretty bad at slowing down. I've felt many times that our offense stops working when we try to run clock.

I personally think it's kind of because we design our offense to take several approaches at the basket until we get a good open shot. Having SM dribble around for 15 seconds just limits the number of looks we try to develop.

[SaintLouBrave22]

Yeah, I guess I'm not as concerned with how it worked last night... Just more interested in the fact that we seem to be pretty bad at slowing down. I've felt many times that our offense stops working when we try to run clock.

I personally think it's kind of because we design our offense to take several approaches at the basket until we get a good open shot. Having SM dribble around for 15 seconds just limits the number of looks we try to develop.

Yeah, and I agree completely there....


That and Sammy isn't very good at just dribbling around because he does so with his head down...


We end up not even running a play and get a bail out long jumper out of it usually with a 1 and done.


We do much better when we run our sets and move the ball quickly without so much dribbling.


I must ask though...with Andrew back and now having DSE and Chris, along with skilled players that can take the ball inside in Will and Taylor, why don't we run the weave anymore?

[thefish7]

Yeah, ditto on weave. Only saw it, I think, once last night. It didn't work that well for us last year, so I wonder if Coach Les has removed it...

[Braves4Life]

Yeah, ditto on weave. Only saw it, I think, once last night. It didn't work that well for us last year, so I wonder if Coach Les has removed it...

I think we ran it one play where DSE threw an unsuccessful alley oop to CR. It was never used again.

[thefish7]

Wofford had that alley-oop scouted out, I think we tried to run it twice and it got disrupted both times that I saw.

[Buesch N Chips]

Yeah, ditto on weave. Only saw it, I think, once last night. It didn't work that well for us last year, so I wonder if Coach Les has removed it...

I thought I saw it in the 2nd half once against Idaho St.

[AZ BU Fan]

Well I'm sure Les' intention was not to let Wofford back in the game. If I were a coach in that situation, no problem with slowing tempo a bit to try to control the other team's opportunities on offense... But the slowing of tempo should not equal Maniscalco dribbling around like he's lost it should just discourage him from taking a 3 after 5 seconds have come off the shotclock.

Perhaps BU could lobby to abolish the shot clock and let BU go 4 corners when they have a large lead at the 10 minute mark!

[SpfldBUAlum]

That's my big problem with JL as a coach. Under him we never seem to go for the kill. It seems like as soon as we get up 10 or so we start holding the ball and let the other team back in the game! Up 10 with 2 minutes left that's fine but with almost 10 you are trying to give the game away!

[MacabreMob]

I think it is pretty Classy of Coach Les not to go for the jugular. I mean, c'mon... Roberts throwing down a 3 at the buzzer last year when the game was already decided got a lot of bad press. So I repeat... Coach Les not blowing Wofford out was a Classy move.

[Bradleyguy10]

I think it is pretty Classy of Coach Les not to go for the jugular. I mean, c'mon... Roberts throwing down a 3 at the buzzer last year when the game was already decided got a lot of bad press. So I repeat... Coach Les not blowing Wofford out was a Classy move.

I would bet good money he didn't take those players out trying to be classy. I believe he fully intended for them to put the game away. I agree he might've done it in order to not get much more of a lead but I don't think he expected for them to come back...classy was not the motivation of the substition. We put some people out there that are part of rotation and Wofford came back and almost beat us. Let's not try to spin it any other way and not give credit to Wofford. They almost beat us...and it was with people that we normally use...yes not our starters, but still a number of people in the normal rotation. So I repeat...it was not done to be classy. No way.

[Buesch N Chips]

I would bet good money he didn't take those players out trying to be classy. I believe he fully intended for them to put the game away. I agree he might've done it in order to not get much more of a lead but I don't think he expected for them to come back...classy was not the motivation of the substition. We put some people out there that are part of rotation and Wofford came back and almost beat us. Let's not try to spin it any other way and not give credit to Wofford. They almost beat us...and it was with people that we normally use...yes not our starters, but still a number of people in the normal rotation. So I repeat...it was not done to be classy. No way.

I think someone is missing some sarcasm.

[Bradleyguy10]

eech you may be right....but i'll leave it because it's my opinion

[Chico]

I think someone is missing some sarcasm.

I was going to respond to MMob's post, but if you think it was sarcasmm, I won't bother.