BU at Creighton game thread

[Chico]

He's a MVC guy, so I wish best of luck.

[tornado]

Hey - did anyone see -- only a couple days after someone questioned why Nate Wells wasn't dressing and going thru pre-game warmups - since that's just all the more opportunity to get practice...
then we see this...
" BU redshirt center Nate Wells dressed in uniform Saturday for the first time this
season and participated in pregame warmup drills. ???We thought this would be a
good opportunity for him to get some jitters out going through warmups
before a big crowd,??? said BU coach Geno Ford. ???He??™s still redshirting this
season.??? Wells will continue dressing out the rest of the year"

http://www.pjstar.com/bradleyhoops/x842390499/Another-moral-victory-in-season-full-of-them-for-Bradley?zc_p=1

Also - here's an article about the game from the AP media...

http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Struggling-Bradley-loses-73-59-to-No-15-Creighton-2799072.php

..one comment caught my eye...
"I thought for the most part tonight we really had a good mentality about grinding...
..I didn't feel so much like we lost tonight as Creighton won."

http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Struggling-Bradley-loses-73-59-to-No-15-Creighton-2799072.php#ixzz1kyUPdjvM

[DoubleJayAlum]

Sorry, but this had nothing to do with it. It was motivated entirely because McDermott is in contention for the top scorer in the country, and his team wanted to get a couple more points to get to his average. That is why he was in the game at the end, to ensure he got to his average, and it is why he played 36 minutes in the game, while every other Creighton player played 29 minutes or less.

By the way, Doug has fallen to 3rd in the country now-
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...rseason/yearly

Watch the video again. The intent was to have Young dribble out the clock. When the defender got up on him forcing the refs to do the 5 second counting, he drove the lane. Seeing Doug down low, he passed it off. It was not a designed or called play and certainly not what the coaches preferred (they wanted to just dribble out the clock).

We've had several games this year where walkons have played significant minutes. If the intent was to pad Doug's stats, that wouldn't be the case.

Nobody at Creighton expects Doug to get player of the year. We just want to win games.

[Chico]

Watch the video again. The intent was to have Young dribble out the clock. When the defender got up on him forcing the refs to do the 5 second counting, he drove the lane. Seeing Doug down low, he passed it off. It was not a designed or called play and certainly not what the coaches preferred (they wanted to just dribble out the clock).

We've had several games this year where walkons have played significant minutes. If the intent was to pad Doug's stats, that wouldn't be the case.

Nobody at Creighton expects Doug to get player of the year. We just want to win games.

I agree.

[Old Coach]

Remember a couple years ago when Chris Roberts threw up a 40 footer at the end of a game that BU won and Gregg Marshall went ballistic about it??
Seems like there's only whining when it's BU who does it...when it happens the other way around it's fair because the game is 40 minutes long...

I don't remember that. My personal belief is that it's poor form.

[Da Coach]

That's what both coaches also believed. Jim Les scolded Chris about that, and a few games later when he had a chance to take a last shot in a game we won easily, he thought about it and decided not to.

[shaunguth]

I don't remember that. My personal belief is that it's poor form.

I believe CR took that shot in order to get to the points total on the back of the season tickets......thus rewarding the season ticket holders. I do not have a problem with that at all.

[SFP]

He's a MVC guy, so I wish best of luck.

With ya on this one Chico!

[tornado]

I don't remember that. My personal belief is that it's poor form.

Here was a comment on our board about that last second shot by Roberts even tho BU had the game won handily..

"And according to the Dave Reynolds column, Gregg Marshall even made a big
deal of the Chris Roberts end-of-game shot in his post-game press conference."

http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=114656&postcount=37