Wow- BU loses 68-65

[tornado]

just win the next game, then the bandwagon will get full again

[wily coyote]

Free throws and execution are a big problem for this team. Those things are fixable. This team did turn around last year after a bad loss at Milwaukee.
I don't agree that it is due to coaching.

Did ISU lost at Ohio because of coaching? Have Creighton's losses this year been due to coaching?

DC Your first paragraph doesn't surprise me, but the natives are getting restless and you will, but can't deny we have seen some strange decisions from the bench and it doesn't seem to be getting better with experience.

[ER3]

Yes. Bradley bottomed out with a bad loss at Wisconsin-Milwaukee last year (12/20/08 ) to fall to 5-5. Jim reorganized his lineup and player rotation, and Bradley went on to play their best basketball of the season, winning their next 5 games, including road games at Wichita State and Missouri State, and big home wins over SIU and undefeated ISU.

We went 16-12 after "bottoming out" at UWM last year...is that really anything to hang our hats on? Is a 5 game stretch of good basketball enough to label a season as a success? I sure hope not.
We won 5 games in a row after UWM...and then went 11-12 to finish the year from that point on...
Doesn't exactly sound like a banner year to me...but maybe I just expect too much.

[SFP]

WOW is right! I left at the half to attend a function and I came back excited to see by how much we won!

I have one question because I have no desire to check out the box score, why did JL pull MK out in the 1st half? He was on fire. Ok one more, did he play any quality minutes in the 2nd?

When a player is in a zone you should let him play himself out before you yank them, IMHO.

[Chico]

Free throws and execution are a big problem for this team. Those things are fixable. This team did turn around last year after a bad loss at Milwaukee.
I don't agree that it is due to coaching.

Did ISU lost at Ohio because of coaching? Have Creighton's losses this year been due to coaching?

Again, don't really care why they lost.

[Chico]

I don't believe coaching was the entire reason we lost, but maybe you can answer this Coach. Why does Les seem to bench the hot players for ten minutes (MK tonight) at a time when the rest of the team is having an off night? Shouldn't a coach play the percentages?

And I know this is a second question, but why did Les draw up a play at the end of the game to a poor shooting (for this game) TB instead of leaving him exposed and getting the ball to one of the hotter shooting players? I think it's things like that lead to some of the questions that our posters ask.

Reminds me of the 70's. When ever someone besides the "star" was hot, out he came. Only thing, in those years we had a "star".

[Da Coach]

The point is (and it seems I always have to explain my point) that it is not coaching that is always the cause of every loss.


Unless, of course, it's Bradley that loses.

[Chico]

Nice try changing the subject, but the subject was last night's game.
If we are going to talk about the last 9 years, Bradley hasn't played this way either. Note that Bradley's record is way better than ISU's over the last 9 years, they have almost the same number of wins as Creighton.
Also, ISU has not played in the NCAA since 1998, and neither of them has won an NCAA game since Jim Les has been coaching at Bradley. And needless to say, neither has played in the Sweet 16.
So if we are going to play the game where we find things about past years to complain about, I'll be happy to provide some of the successes of these past years, too.

Sorry Coach, but you are the one who brought up ISU and Creighton.

[shaunguth]

The difference is that Creighton HAS a coach who WILL turn it around when it matters most...conf season. The same can not be said for our team.

Of course, that's yet to be seen and is far from being a fact at this point.

[shaunguth]

I have one question because I have no desire to check out the box score, why did JL pull MK out in the 1st half? He was on fire. Ok one more, did he play any quality minutes in the 2nd?

Apparently, he doesn't play defense as well as anyone else on the team. No, he did not play any quality minutes in the 2nd.

[Buesch N Chips]

Apparently, he doesn't play defense as well as anyone else on the team. No, he did not play any quality minutes in the 2nd.

Good thing we kept our good defenders in, or we might have lost the game. Oh wait....

[shaunguth]

??? MK was on fire, but on defense he still seems lost and perhaps this is why he never made it back into the game and I can understand and agree with that. However, he wasn??™t the only one lost on defense last night. Loyola made numerous entry passes into the post just a couple feet from the basket and had clear lanes to the basket all night long.

I completely agree, but let's just go BIG because we have a few players that are......."BIG".

??? I don??™t think we can blame all this on Jim. The players have to be held accountable for the some of the ridiculous turnovers in the second half.

I also agree that the entire team/staff shares the blame in this loss. I certainly hope the coaching staff didn't tell CR to foul on two of Loyola's last possessions!

[versace4pres]

We went 16-12 after "bottoming out" at UWM last year...is that really anything to hang our hats on? Is a 5 game stretch of good basketball enough to label a season as a success? I sure hope not.
We won 5 games in a row after UWM...and then went 11-12 to finish the year from that point on...
Doesn't exactly sound like a banner year to me...but maybe I just expect too much.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[AZ BU Fan]

I completely agree, but let's just go BIG because we have a few players that are......."BIG".

Doubt BU would have done any better against a team that KILLED them inside last night if BU went SMALLl....From what little I saw last night on the Internet stream of the game before I got too physically ill to keep watching, BU "SMALL" players didn't look much better than BU "BIG" players.

[Grassman]

BU Loses

Nice try changing the subject, but the subject was last night's game.
If we are going to talk about the last 9 years, Bradley hasn't played this way either. Note that Bradley's record is way better than ISU's over the last 9 years, they have almost the same number of wins as Creighton.
Also, ISU has not played in the NCAA since 1998, and neither of them has won an NCAA game since Jim Les has been coaching at Bradley. And needless to say, neither has played in the Sweet 16.
So if we are going to play the game where we find things about past years to complain about, I'll be happy to provide some of the successes of these past years, too.

#!, You brought ISU and Creighton into the subjectin your previous post, not I.
#2 In almost 9 years, Jim Les has has 6 good weeks.
We went to N. IA and all of a sudden J.J. Tuai figured out how to shoot.
As a result teams had to start guarding him. This kept teams from doubling down and created more opportunities for the rest of the team mainly OB and Summerville.
2006 will soon be a distant memory. what remains is we have never finished higher that 4th in The Valley during JL's tenure!
#3. We just blew any chance of getting an at large bid. Teams in a conference with an SOS in the 20's and losses to Loyola an average Horizon league team, DO NOT get an at large bid.
#4. I thought our loss to a pretty decent W. Car. would be negated by a win at Iowa St. Forgeddaboutit.
#5. "More wins" Only because we have played in those alphabetic meaningless post season tournaments.
#6 Even you must be sick of playing at 2:30 on Friday.
My friend dubs Les , 2:30 Jimmy!