BU vs ISU

[BUfan14]

I'll never be ashamed to be a fan. However, I agree that we lost focus after knotting it up at 21! They go on a 14-5 run and then we come out in the 2nd half and couldnt hit the broad side of a barn!

That is 2 games in a row that we have lacked focus to the game plan. Don't really understand how you can't have focus.

Especially for this game is what is even more disappointing to me. Almost every Bradley ISU game is a decent game just because no matter where the teams are it always means a lot. Now we are in similar places, so it means even more beyond just the rivalry and we put forth no effort. Very disappointing. There just seems to be a lack of fire with this team when they need it most, as evidenced by us getting pushed all over the court in this big game. I am still holding out hope for a good showing in St. Louis, but we are a long way from that. I thought we had fixed the effort problem for the year, disappointing to see it is still a problem.

[AZ BU Fan]

EVER NOTICE HOW ALL THE JL SUPPORTERS DISAPPEAR ON THIS FORUM WHEN THEY STINK THE JOINT UP VS ISU?

How do we defend JL and the progress of his program now?

[real fan]

I had hope for making a run in the tour. but reality says we do not have a true center to go up against the best teams centers in the league (UNI,ISU,Creighton and Wichita ST.) , our starters would have to play way too many minutes in 3 or 4 games to be effective so we have little chance of challenging for the tour. title.
Next season we will have a good starting lineup but very little help off the bench unless we get some big time recruits.

[BUfan14]

EVER NOTICE HOW ALL THE JL SUPPORTERS DISAPPEAR ON THIS FORUM WHEN THEY STINK THE JOINT UP VS ISU?

How do we defend JL and the progress of his program now?

I am here, I am a JL supporter. I'm am saying what I think as well. By the way I think we are all JL supporters while he is coaching BU cause we want to win, I think you mean JL believers, which I am as well.

Maniscalco and DSE played hard the whole game, Taylor good 1st half but appeared to quit playing along with Egolf in the 2nd half, worse effort I can remember in a long time , it is apparent how much better ISU is recruiting players better then we are as it looked like men playing against boys. We need a bench that can contribute more then 7-8 points a game as our starters are having to play way too many minutes.

Maniscalco always plays hard if he is having a good game or not and I appreciate that more than anything. I can't say the same for almost anyone else on this team besides him and DSE and Eastman when they are in. At least that is what I see.

We need a shooter and a big bruiser type guy off the bench IMO. Dodie can hopefully be that shooter next year, I'd like to see us get a JUCO bruiser type guy. I also thought AT looked like he was playing harder, albeit he was only in 2 minutes, but maybe we should see what he can do down low now.

[Braves4Life]

EVER NOTICE HOW ALL THE JL SUPPORTERS DISAPPEAR ON THIS FORUM WHEN THEY STINK THE JOINT UP VS ISU?

How do we defend JL and the progress of his program now?

I'm here..... And I don't think you really can defend JL after this game. He's now on "double secret probation".

[AZ BU Fan]

At the end of the day, maybe it isn't just about coaching. JL could be the best coach in the world, but if he and his staff aren't successful recruiting talent, or enough talent, perhaps time to try and find someone who can...

Just sayin...

[ER3]

Dismal. Embarrassing effort and performance in what is supposed to be a huge, rivalry game.

I guess Wessler was right, afterall, when he said better things aren't ahead. I guess a lot of people on this board now owe him an apology for suggesting that he owed them an apology for having that opinion.

Guess the Kool-Aid crew had their own "knee-jerk reaction" to that fluke of a three game winning streak that we were on...Ooops.

[amckillip]

Originally Posted by AZ BU Fan
EVER NOTICE HOW ALL THE JL SUPPORTERS DISAPPEAR ON THIS FORUM WHEN THEY STINK THE JOINT UP VS ISU?

How do we defend JL and the progress of his program now?

Actually, the JL supporters are the people who actually go to games and aren't back yet....

[BU_EMT128]

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Actually, the JL supporters are the people who actually go to games and aren't back yet....

Are you implying that they are better fans than we anti-JL people who got stuck working a long, long shift today and thus could not make the drive to normal???

[amckillip]

Are you implying that they are better fans than we anti-JL people who got stuck working a long, long shift today and thus could not make the drive to normal???

Dude, grow up. Everyone AZ was talking about went to the game. Everyone knows it. If you somehow turned that into a personal insult against yourself you have a serious persecution complex.

[AZ BU Fan]

AMC,

Just

Some of us JL should be on thin ice crowd have a sense of humor!

You are probably correct. All the pro and anti JL posters at the game are probably still out drinking their sorrows away right now, and not Kool Aid!

[flipper]

people drink on saturday night?

[BUBraves2006]

As I wrote a little bit ago ... this team simply isn't that good.

Throw the blame game wherever you want - that's for all of you to decide, I try to stay out of that. There's no depth and we don't have a single player who can defend a powerful guy like Odiakosa in the post.

Combine that with one of the worst shooting performances I've seen in a long time (5-28, 17%; 1-11 3PT, 9.1%) in the second half, and that's how you get a blowout.

50-28 on the boards after destroying Creighton on the glass again proves that rebounding is not necessarily about size, but about desire.

Sadly this team never looked like it ever had a chance to win today.

Most important point to make, especially on a message board that is so divided these days: Bradley is never as good as it looks in victories (Ill, vs. MSU, at SIU) and is equally not as bad as it looks on the rough games (at MSU, at ISU). What you have is a very average team that has hovered around .500 the entire season and will stay there the rest of the way.

And being average is more frustrating than anything, which is really what gets people riled up. You see this team put up great performances and you might think it could be a contender for the top of the Valley. But then you see games like today and you see all of the deficiencies.

Bradley doesn't do anything well on a consistent basis. We have games where we rebound well, shoot great, minimize turnovers, knock down FTs, play lockdown defense. But when it really comes down to it, not any one of these (except for maybe free throw shooting in conference play) is something we do really well on a game-in-game-out basis. So, that's why you have the ups and downs.

If the team was lousy, fans could understand that and root hard for them to overachieve. Similarly, nobody ever has trouble with a team that is a winner. But the roller coaster ride is what gets everyone so angry.

I don't have the solutions but that's what I see.

[Braves4Life]

Good analysis BUBraves2006.

[tornado]

EVER NOTICE HOW ALL THE JL SUPPORTERS DISAPPEAR ON THIS FORUM WHEN THEY STINK THE JOINT UP VS ISU?

How do we defend JL and the progress of his program now?

that's insane...
we disappeared because we were in Bloomington and then had the drive back...
and since when is it the fans' job to defend anything...I am a fan of the program, I am unapologetically supportive and if you need to complain go right ahead...