Post Game Talk BU beats Wooster- 81-71

[spoon]

lefty - I share most of your thoughts...but I will add...

-Wooster played a good game not a bad game as some seem to think - and even their head coach Steve Moore said they were the most competetive he has seen any team of his against a D-I opponent..
"It was probably the best we??™ve competed against a Division I team. This was a good game for us"

Talk about misleading. Wooster has only played one other D-1 opponent in the last decade. And sure, you can say Wooster was competitive and played a good game, but how much of that can be attributed to Bradley playing poor defense.

[Bobby Parker]

Postgame press conference and game recap videos are now linked to the postgame recap article: http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArt...DB_OEM_ID=3400

[tornado]

Thanks BP -- let us know as soon as those LOI's come in!

[Beninator]

Talk about misleading. Wooster has only played one other D-1 opponent in the last decade. And sure, you can say Wooster was competitive and played a good game, but how much of that can be attributed to Bradley playing poor defense.

I'll throw this out there, and it will probably be a minority opinion on this board, but I thought that Wooster played better fundamental TEAM basketball for long stretches of the game. Some of this I will attribute to JP not playing last night.

[Da Coach]

Talk about misleading. Wooster has only played one other D-1 opponent in the last decade. And sure, you can say Wooster was competitive and played a good game, but how much of that can be attributed to Bradley playing poor defense.

Not sure where you get this statement- but it is not true.

You must be looking at their official results, since it does not list exhibition results-

http://www.woosterathletics.com/sports/mbkb/results/1990

But they have played exhibition games each of the past several years against D1 opponents. I only looked at the last few years, but they have played the following exhibition games in the last 4 seasons-
11/8/11- vs. Bradley
10/31/11- vs. Ohio University
11/7/09- vs. Kent State
11/1/08- vs. Ohio University


BTW, Bradley now has the postgame press conference video posted, along with the postgame video recap-

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205330145&DB_OEM_ID=3400

[lefty]

I'll throw this out there, and it will probably be a minority opinion on this board, but I thought that Wooster played better fundamental TEAM basketball for long stretches of the game. Some of this I will attribute to JP not playing last night.

and some of it because players that are not overly athletic tend to be very fundamentally sound...not sure that JP makes a difference in that regard....JP would make a difference on the boards and defending the post and running the offense. Wooster player better fundmental team basketball for much of the game.

[LittleBrave]

Postgame press conference and game recap videos are now linked to the postgame recap article: http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArt...DB_OEM_ID=3400

Just saw the recap - 3 dunks that I saw. We will get our share this year with the up-tempo style.
DSE's 1-handed slam was awesome! But CR had some pretty incredible dunks - don't have to go all the way back to ZA.

Great to see that DSE & TB are on track so far. DSE took quite a long time to heat up last season.

I think we'll be alright inside (at least from a statistical POV) this season with TB, SS, JP, and AT. A little below avg. with the rest of the league, but not terrible.
Our guards will really dictate our success this year. I am very confident, as I have always been, in DSE & WL, and they should cause a lot of havok defensively, while contributing much on the offensive end.
Can't stress how badly we need Jake's shots to start going down from 3-land.
Would be great to have WL, DSE, and JE all improve in 3-pt. % this year. If so, we'll be alright. I remember AW having a very strong sophomere campaign - look for the same for Mr. Lemon Jr.

This will be a breakthrough year for AT - I'm thinking 15 mpg, 6-7 ppg, 3-4 boards, and 1 block per game, and quite a few altered shots.

[Stardust6702]

This is what I saw last night.

TB - looked the best and is obviously going to be our leading scorer. This will be an issue later in the season since I imagine teams are going to start focusing in on him but a great game.
DSE - Solid game, looked good driving and handling the ball. I think he should be our PG for the first half of the season but we'll see what Geno does.
WL - I think this is going to be our best project the next few years. Remember he really didn't get any playing time last year, so this is really his first season. By far the fastest on the floor but I feel he is getting too excited and making a few poor decisions. I feel he will calm down after a few games. I think by next year he will be dominant.
JE - I know fans on here love how he is scrappy and gets junk points but I think he should be our 7th if not 8th man. He can't make the 3 consistently, seems too slow on offense to drive and made bad turnovers last game during transition that immediately were turned into points.
AT - Was extremely impressed with him last night since from what I remember of him from previous years was a guy that got pushed around and was clumsy. If JP continues to have problems on defense I could see AT getting some good playing time.
SS - I like his ball handling and I like his aggressive play but he needs to finish. Great hands for a big man but I do agree he is getting a little too excited during play. Also, needs a lot of practice at the free throw.
NW- Looks a little lost and not a lot of confidence right now but seems better than I originally thought. He's a freshman and going to make freshman errors so I can't fault him too much. I do like that he can make this free throws though. I love to see big men that can make points from the line.
DS - Didn't get much production from him last night but he didn't cause any bad plays. The previous game he looked good at handling and shooting.
JC - About the same scenario here. Looked OK but didn't see much contribution.


Brown was the best player last night but I was the most surprised with sticks. The big things I noticed that we need to work on are the defense, not much of an outside shot, need better rebounding and free throws, free throws, free throws.
I liked our play down low, great driving game and transition points.

[tornado]

Talk about misleading. Wooster has only played one other D-1 opponent in the last decade. And sure, you can say Wooster was competitive and played a good game, but how much of that can be attributed to Bradley playing poor defense.

The quote was from their long time, experienced head coach - a guy who hasn't had a losing season and not even a double digit loss season since 1987! - and he would know.
Da Coach kinda answered this question - they have played D-I's many times...

If you do a careful check - their coach Steve Moore has been head coach of Wooster since 1987, and in that interval they've played a number of games against D-I's - several of which were regular season games against Youngstown State, Kent State, Akron (multiple times), San Diego, Harvard..

[Old Coach]

I agree. I was very impressed with ATs play last night. He definitely had more than one block, also AT getting 9 and 4 in 19 minutes this early in the season is huge. I hope he keeps up this level of motivation as a similar stat line during the regular season would spell great things for this team.

I'm more concerned about the 16 pts. and 8 rebounds that he and Wells allowed to a 6' 7" D-III post player, but that's just me. AT looks like he only plays when he wants to.

[lefty]

We just need to play better at the end of the year than we do now. If that happens then we made progress......I'm anxious for us to play a D-1 opponent and see how we progress and if get improvement from players other than Walt,TB, and DSE......it's how the rest of the team does that will determine how many games we win.

[Buesch N Chips]

I'm more concerned about the 16 pts. and 8 rebounds that he and Wells allowed to a 6' 7" D-III post player, but that's just me. AT looks like he only plays when he wants to.

Things need to improve down low, because if Prosser gets in foul trouble, which he will, this is what we have.