68 Bradley- 74 TCU in game thread.

[thefish7]

agreed... both DSE and DD need to come off bench til they get going. Just may mean starting JE for one game over them since he does hustle pretty well

Lemon.

Should be:
Maniscalco
Lemon
Warren
X?
Egolf

... Could put Prosser or Dodie in there. DSE (though I'm a huge fan) is having a rough start, gotta let him play through it, but I think it's time for him to come off the bench to do it.

[SaintLouBrave22]

Haha, how the heck do you say this wasn't a good coaching effort??? He had them in a position to win, what more do you want???

I want guys PREPARED to play and THAT is on him!

I saw 4 guys that just were not ready to play today...and I saw 3 guys that once again have been under his roof for more than 2 years that just have not gotten any better...

Besides the technical yesterday and the continuous use of timeouts in bad situations and the poor substitutions we were in position to win..

BUT that's in SPITE of him...

[Future Walk-On]

can everyone lay off warren now?

I think he played well....how many rebounds did he finish with...he did alot of good.

[Braves2011]

Lemon.

Should be:
Maniscalco
Lemon
Warren
X?
Egolf

... Could put Prosser or Dodie in there. DSE (though I'm a huge fan) is having a rough start, gotta let him play through it, but I think it's time for him to come off the bench to do it.

last i remember DSE came off the bench pretty well so maybe we need to go that route

[Big Mike]

JL just said WE has to be smarter....getting 2 fouls every 1st half.....not helping out sitting on the bench

[amckillip]

I want guys PREPARED to play and THAT is on him!

I saw 4 guys that just were not ready to play today...and I saw 3 guys that once again have been under his roof for more than 2 years that just have not gotten any better...

Besides the technical yesterday and the continuous use of timeouts in bad situations and the poor substitutions we were in position to win..

BUT that's in SPITE of him...

Haha, ok, I'll bite again, the technical yesterday was clearly ridiculous. But what were the bad timeouts today?

And you can't have it both ways. You can either blame JL for everything when he loses, but when he wins you have to give him credit. He's 4-1 missing his most dynamic player. I'm not going to convince you, JL will never do right in your eyes, but talk about having your cake and eating it too, jeez.

[BUfan14]

can everyone lay off warren now?

I think he played well....how many rebounds did he finish with...he did alot of good.

Agreed. One thing I think may be of note is that BU did play 4 games in a 6 day stretch. Perhaps they just got a little wore out at the end and finally couldn't finish one. I'll give us one non-con bad loss, but I think we should win the rest of them besides Duke, which I hope they can somehow win.

[amckillip]

can everyone lay off warren now?

I think he played well....how many rebounds did he finish with...he did alot of good.

Warren played great this game. I was really happy with him. But don't act like the AW criticism wasn't deserved. He won't get any today, he deserves lots of praise, but if he plays like yesterday, he'll get it again. But for today, great job AW! You hustled and kept your head in it.

[SaintLouBrave22]

So, our wins are flukes but our losses show we're not good, against a bad team?

We played tough today, were in the game to the end, our top players stepped up, but TCU just executed a little better. No one save WSU looks anywhere near as good as BU. On what measure based on anything from this season are you basing your 6th place comment?

We beat a Loyola Marymount team at home that has poor perimeter shooting and yet we only won by 3 and that the same team that got beat by Rider today...the same Rider team that beat this TCU team even worse the previous day (16)....and it was said that TCU doesn't play any defense, yet we don't break 70.

We also beat a bad NIU team by 2 at home...a win may be a win, but there gets to be a point where you can't possibly be ok with choking away large leads and blowing th game or just squeaking one out...

We squeaked a few out in non con last year, but once we got into the conference season it only got worse and those games became losses to SIU and ISU on the home floor...

Les can not coach them up to put teams away and that's not my opinion, that's FACT..one that many have noticed.

[real fan]

Could see this one coming as you cannot get such low production from your inside players on the offensive end because it makes it so much tougher for our guards to get open looks, Egolf has talent but continues to make dumb fouls and he seems to just want to shoot whenever he touches the ball, Prosser is a horse on the boards but has trouble finishing shots on the block, Thompson is weak on the block as his 2 shots were flung up at the hoop and he seems to try and stay away from contact instead of going up strong and making someone foul him, unless we get some offensive threats to score inside we are going to struggle to get good shots, our bigs still come to far out to set screens, wish we would allow them to stay inside and set them in the lane because they either get called for a moving screen or the defender just switches and we still get nothing, offense needs to be re-tooled .

[amckillip]

Les can not coach them up to put teams away and that's not my opinion, that's FACT..one that many have noticed.

USC?

NIU?

Yeah 'fact.' At least pretend your not just attacking JL because it's JL.

[Bravesfan]

I want guys PREPARED to play and THAT is on him!

I saw 4 guys that just were not ready to play today...and I saw 3 guys that once again have been under his roof for more than 2 years that just have not gotten any better...

Besides the technical yesterday and the continuous use of timeouts in bad situations and the poor substitutions we were in position to win..

BUT that's in SPITE of him...

Come on SaintLou! They are still 4-1. So they don't show up one night and it's all Les's fault?! I understand a lot of easy missed shots are hurting us, but for us to start 4-1, you have to give a lot of credit to Les for that, don't you?

[shaunguth]

Egolf has talent but continues to make dumb fouls and he seems to just want to shoot whenever he touches the ball

JL's fault!

Prosser is a horse on the boards but has trouble finishing shots on the block

JL's fault!

Thompson is weak on the block as his 2 shots were flung up at the hoop and he seems to try and stay away from contact instead of going up strong and making someone foul him

JL's fault!


By the way.....it's also JL's fault we can't make FT's and certain players are missing 2-3 layups every game!

I REALLY wish he would just stop coaching his players to do these things!

[Bravesfan]

We beat a Loyola Marymount team at home that has poor perimeter shooting and yet we only won by 3 and that the same team that got beat by Rider today...the same Rider team that beat this TCU team even worse the previous day (16)....and it was said that TCU doesn't play any defense, yet we don't break 70.

We also beat a bad NIU team by 2 at home...a win may be a win, but there gets to be a point where you can't possibly be ok with choking away large leads and blowing th game or just squeaking one out...

We squeaked a few out in non con last year, but once we got into the conference season it only got worse and those games became losses to SIU and ISU on the home floor...

Les can not coach them up to put teams away and that's not my opinion, that's FACT..one that many have noticed.

Will agree that winning close games all the time will come back and bite us every so often. But I think as long as we play better defense than we did tonight, those easier wins will come. And outside of a couple of teams, any team in the Valley is beatable any night. We will still win a lot of games this year, more than many people think we will. We have to beat EIU on Wednesday night though, that's for sure!

[theBUer]

Even on the LA Times website, one guy said "Nobody cares about USC hoops." Would be way different if they made it to NCAAs/NIT every year, huh?

Has Les beaten at least one team from all of the Power Conferences?

Bandwagoning there is no different than with the Blackhawks, the Madhouse on Madison will truly become MAD with fans who spent hundreds of dollars on newly minted sweaters and hoarse voices because the team did not go all the way.

Pfft.