Braves lose 73-68

[Guinness]

I dont know about anyone else but when someone else is doing better than I am, my first question is "What are they doing?" and then "How do I outdo them?". And then you go out there and bust your behind to be the champ. Excuses never get you there. The situation is what we make of it.

What really makes you good? What really makes you the winner? Overcoming "bad refs" to win anyway.

How many home games have we lost this season? How many times have we won the MVC tournament in the last 10 years? How many home games has Creighton lost? How many times have they won the tournament in the last 10 years? And hell, this year is one of their "down years".

See a pattern yet? No more leaving it up to chance. Light a fire under everyone. Get it done.

[flipper]

What are you talking about? Creighton clearly played out of their shoes today and Bradley stuck in it with rebounding and effort despite struggling with the outside shot.

There are days in college basketball where you get beat by a decent team that has a very good shooting day and plays above its level. Creighton won because they were lucky and hit more shots, not because they're the better team.

what are you talking about. i am tired of some making excuses on why we are medicore. creighton was lucky? they aren't better after they beat us on our home court? how old are you? please tell me you were joking.

[Guinness]

It is not a factual reality that Bradley is a program with no direction that is always underachieving. That is an opinion. I believe four straight 21 win seasons no matter how they are gotten with some post season success is a good start on slowly building a program. Funny I just posted an Outside the Lines story about teams fans expecting too much too fast. I think we are trending towards more success, but that is an opinion not factual reality but nor is your opinion. And I'm sure Les is trying to make adjustments. Also anyone can be positive at anytime for the future. I don't like where we are at, but I have hope for the future. Some people's stress levels here must be so high with the constant negativity.

Two of those seasons were due to ....lets admit it.... extremely low quality post season tournaments with 4-6 games each pretty much HANDED to us. In reality it was the 06 NCAA Sweet 16 and the 07 NIT season.

[wily coyote]

I'm not sure Creighton can play any better than they did tonight...and Bradley still should have won. That gives me hope for the rest of the year.

Good observation, I agree completely. They played great and we shot poorly and still had a chance to win a game that we missed to many free throws and didn't deserve to win. Now we really need to win Sat at ISU.

[BUfan14]

please dont blame the refs for this loss and lose all credibilty.

He's not blaming them completely, he is saying they make a difference. And in who's eyes does he lose credibility? I don't think many will listen to any type of defense of Bradley anyway

[Majik45]

My suggestion is for Les to make a defensive adjustment on teams who continue to bomb away against us from 3 at home night in and night out.

You didn't like switching to zone multiple times against a team on fire from 3? Every time we went zone tonight, I turned to my wife and said, here comes another 3 make from CU.

[Da Coach]

The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.

[BUfan14]

what are you talking about. i am tired of some making excuses on why we are medicore. creighton was lucky? they aren't better after they beat us on our home court? how old are you? please tell me you were joking.

Yes he obviously knows nothing because he has a different opinion. I think he made sense. Is South Carolina better than Kentucky? Using your theory they are.

[Disturbed]

The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.

How do you know this is the best game they played all year?

[BradleyBrave]

The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.

We could hire people with more experience and better records. What a concept.

[Buesch N Chips]

I thought we played pretty well. It certainly wasn't a meltdown like Iowa State. We did a lot well, Creighton was lights out. I think everyone in the arena was waiting for the threes to stop, but they really never did. If we go man, they dump it to that big guy and he goes right around our 5, if we go zone they chuck 3's. Even though they made a ton of them, I'd rather see them take those then let their 5 (forget his name) score 25 points on layups, dunks and free throws. If you make 3's and have a big man that needs to be double teamed, you are going to score against anyone, no?

We shot poorly, they shot great. Story of the game. The fact that were were in it at the end was pretty impressive. Big game Saturday.

[BUfan14]

It really pisses me off when the complacents say this about those of us who expect more. We're not bailing on the team. In fact, we know they're better than this and hold them to much higher standards than everyone else.

Why is everyone setting the bar so low for our team? Perhaps it is the rest of you who have little faith. Because if you set the bar low enough.... you cant really fail.

No one is setting the bar low, we just don't go crazy everytime we lose. If it was a lack of effort that is one thing, but it wasn't and hasn't been for a while so these kind of games will happen. As long as effort stays around this team is talented enough that they will do pretty well the rest of the year

[thefish7]

Should have won this game. I'm on the "positive side," but... I think Les got outcoached tonight, the zone was mindboggling. I guess you could say he was playing percentages against a team that was shooting 31.6% coming into tonight (good for 259th in the country)... But they were hotter than anything, and punished us each time. That for me cancelled out the "ref effect" which was ridiculous tonight, there was one ref who was just killing us. But, like I said, refs=Les zone tonight (I'm giving that zebra about 9 points, plus/minus 3-- which is probably what that zone cost us).

It was a tough game to lose because we pretty much kicked the crap out of Creighton on every stat that wasn't shooting percentage. Stats aren't out yet, but we commanded the boards, and I think they turned it over more than we did. If the team keeps doing that, we'll win some more games, if they start mailing it in, season done. I feel like CU is going to be like SIU this year, and we'll beat them at our place, if the guys keep up the effort on the boards.

Also, someone mentioned shot selection, and yeah, WE took a couple of long mid-range shots--- but he made a couple too. The thing is, CU had ridiculously awful, terrible, absolutely stupid shot selection, time and again, and they went in. It happens. The Missouri State, SIU, WCU, Loyola losses THIS was not.

Edit: ONe other thing, best game of the year, Sam Singh. Keep it up, we need some good minutes out of you!

[Bravesfan]

The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.

I wasn't able to see the game tonight because, as those on the chatroom know, I have been having problems obtaining the video of the games on channelsurfing.net due to some codec issues on my computer. So I did not get to actually see how well our team played, just heard the commentary.

So my question is not the effort we put forth tonight because I know it was there. However, since you were at the game tonight, how was our shot selection? It seemed like based on the commentary, we missed a lot of "point blank" threes (I say that in quotes since I know those are easier said than done to make them) and some shorter shots, but still played well on the offensive end. Also, how was our defensive effort? It again seemed like the effort was there, but we still gave up 31 three point attempts which unfortunately won't win many games. In other words, was Creighton just that good tonight?

[Chucky T's]

The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.

...And I will ask again, why does it seem that every "poor shooting" team comes into Carver Arena and just lights us up? Why do teams continually shoot free-throws at an alarming high percentage on BU's floor?

I'm very frustrated. I am very disappointed in yet another home loss...but I am not giving up hope. A win at ISU and I can see BU going on a four game winning streak. We can still be in the top three.