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If Evansville is hitting the 3 ball, it will be "good night Irene". In the past it seems that when opponents shoot the 3, we shoot a lot more 3's. That's not a good thing. Warren Jones is the only consistent 3 point shooter we have. Omari Grier is highly over rated. I still say our defense is not as good as advertised, especially against the 3. Maybe that will change today.
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Warren Jones definitely is one of our better 3-pt shooters...but is that really saying much since nobody we have is all that consistent..
and I don't mean to be tough on him but we've seen a lot of the Tyrone Cole-Scott phenomenon lately with Jones, Grier, & others having very good games then completely disappearing after that!
Barnes actually has our best 3-pt shooting pct at .393 - but that's way down from what he was earlier in the year - and only in the GF era is that considered good - because in all of our prior years - that would be pretty mediocre.
Warren Jones is 17-47 - .362 - just above the national average of 34-35%...
BUT Jones was 5-10 against CMU - so his 3-pt shooting against every other team in DI, DII, and DII that isn't named CMU is
12-37 -- which works out to .324 - which is actually WORSE than our TEAM AVERAGE that's at the bottom of the MVC!!!Comment
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I notice that Mockevicius has only 11 assists all year in 15 games, despite the fact Evansville has several great outside shooters he could be passing to. He is not a good passer, so it would seem like a good idea to go ahead and double-team him every time he gets the ball within 10 feel of the basket, and try to force bad passes or bad shots. He isn't going to hurt you by being able to find the open man, since that is not what he is good at.Comment
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we seem to choose defensive plans that help our opponents - so don't count on it...
I strongly suspect our staff will set a game plan NOT to double with reasoning that we are a good interior defensive team
(that's what we keep being told in the PJS) & we'd rather he try to shoot than pass to the guys that can nail the shots that we are unable to defend.
btw - a report from just this morning says Marty Simmons stated in an interview that Evansville's Adam Wing will not return to play today.
He had been listed as "day to day" with a possibility of playing Saturday...
PJS now reporting Warren Jones will play today - probably in the 10-15 minute range
Maybe we can get a crowd like this!
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Halftime
Evansville 36 Bradley 32
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S.O.S. Same old story...couldn't put the ball in the hole. 31% shooting won't beat anyone. Didn't make a shot from 10:51 until 1:03 left in the game. 15 missed FG's in a row. Wouldn't have taken many makes in there to win this one.Comment
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this game was winnable but we came up short...
any one of 3 or 4 things would have helped..
- we have to shoot better
-or get the ball in the hands of guys who are shooting better - Mike Shaw (22%) & Josh Cunningham (12%) should not take any 3-pointers
-we knew who their scorers were and yet both of them got plenty of good shots and both got exactly what they wanted - both got their averages, and we left both undefended way too often.
-dribble into traffic and scoop up a wild shot - wasn't working and probably won't work very often..we need better offense
-which brings me to the final point - I have yet to see in FOUR YEARS - any evidence that Geno Ford knows how to coach offense at this level.
How many years before someone besides the few here on this message board finally figure out that our offense is horrible and that we cannot score more than 50-56 points, and that this exact same problem has plagued us since April of 2011!!!!
Prior to that we were one of the better offensive teams in the league and very entertaining to watch.
Now - even when we win - there are people who feel the offense resembles the latter years of the Albeck era.
5600 attendance for a conference game on a Saturday -- but I guess people must be so used to it that it doesn't mean much any more...
but this is what we ought to be drawing - please Board of Trustees, pull the trigger...
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nice to see Sam Maniscalco and a couple of past Bradley assistant coaches who were there...and also saw AJ Youngman & his dad at the game
whatever people think - we need to stay in on the kid - would love to see him at BU - he's a Jeremy-Crouch-type playersComment
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mid-season comments from Dave Reynolds & GF
still nothing but the injury excuse....it's getting a little bit old...
Here's a few clips since the link to the page is malfunctioning
"Midway point of season for Braves"
Bradley is 6-10 at the season’s midpoint, exactly on target for the same 12-20 record the team compiled last year.
But is the 6-10 mark a true barometer for this team? Considering the full team has yet to play together, likely not. Still, there’s no guarantee enough
time remains for the returning wounded to get their games together for the season’s remainder.
Warren Jones returned Saturday against Evansville and Jermaine Morgan’s target return is Tuesday against UNI. If everybody else stays healthy,
Tuesday would be the first time all 12 scholarship players will be available to coach Geno Ford.
“It’s been real difficult for me to take a big-picture look at the season,” Ford said. “I can read the record. But some of our best scoring has not been
available. The theme of the year has been shuffling and re-shuffling.
“Before (point guard) Tramique (Sutherland played), we averaged 16 turnovers and now we’re averaging 11 with him. We’re not a 6-10 team, but
we are when you factor in reality. It’s taken us a while to get the pieces together. It’ll be Game 21 or 22 before we have the rotation we wanted
from the beginning.”
Whether the Braves are able to navigate the treacherous Missouri Valley Conference waters and avoid the Thursday play-in round of the MVC
tournament for the first time in five years is the biggest question on the table. Starting the tournament on Friday could help the Braves begin to
return to relevance in the conference again.
“There’s a lot of basketball left and all the important stuff is still in front of us,” Ford said. “We went from 10th to eighth to seventh in our first three
years. We’ve gotta make another jump.”Comment
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You can have A.J. Youngman. He may be a good player, but it is obvious that his dad has interfered with every coach his son has played for. I feel bad for A.J. to have to be put in that situation. If his dad doesn't think things go just right for his son, he takes his ball and goes home, or to another school. It appears his priorities are a little out of order. Just because his son is a decent player, doesn't mean he gets to run a program. That's the last thing we need at BU. Besides, his son wouldn't stay at BU for long, he has left everywhere else.Originally posted by tornado View PostComment
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Dave is working overtime to manufacture his line of excuses. He seems to suggest that the 6-10 record is not a "true barometer" for this team, and that Bradley is really much better than a 6-10 team because they have had injuries affecting them most games.
What? I thought injuries were not a legitimate excuse for losing? And I wonder why Dave never mentioned that 6-10 record was compiled mostly against a really awful schedule with wins over Eureka (yikes!), North Carolina A&T (RPI 341!), Texas A&M CC (RPI 337!!), UIC (RPI 227), and SIU (RPI 316!!!).
(He also never seemed to dwell on injuries when they affected the previous coach a whole lot more.)
That is 5 of our 6 wins against a collection of the worst teams in America. Does anyone actually check the things they say at the PJ Star? Or are they just part of the spin machine from Bradley?
So if anything, I would argue that our 6-10 record (now 6-11 after today's loss), is not a true barometer, because we are actually much worse than our record suggests! When will we ever beat a quality team? Only 6 road wins in 3 1/2 years, and they were all over really crappy teams. No road wins this year. Geno is also 0-13 on neutral courts? Is that even possible without trying to lose games?
And please, Geno, stop with this absurd and silly claim-
“We went from 10th to eighth to seventh in our first three years."
We all know that is ridiculous. There was no improvement from year two (18-17) to year three (12-25), in fact, Bradley was much worse. And the only reason you are fooled into thinking there was improvement is because Loyola replaced Creighton, giving Bradley one more team to finish ahead of.
And when you lose in the play-in game to a team seeded lower than you every year (something that has never been done before, and may never be seen again) who cares what ridiculous claims anyone can try to make to delude themselves into thinking there are some redeeming qualities in these last 3 years?
The bottom line is that there has been nothing but failure from this coach and this AD.Comment
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Now, my comments about the game- Again, it seems every time Dave or Kirk try to write a nice article about Bradley, they have to eat their words the next game. "Go-To" guy and senior leader Auston Barnes was 1-8 from the field, scored 3 points, had just 1 rebound, 4 fouls, and never got to the Free Throw line a single time.
Another player who recently had accolades heaped on him by Kirk Wessler, and referred to as a "difference maker" and a "floor general", Tramique Sutherland, was just 2 for 11 from the floor.
Ka'Darryl Bell (1 for 8 ), Mike Shaw (0 for 4), and Xzavier Taylor (2 points, 1 rebound) all did their usual disappearing act whenever we play anyone whose RPI is higher than 300, or a Division III team.
Yet all of Evansville's key players had seemingly no trouble scoring and rebounding at will to reach their averages, and as a team they shot 53.3% on the road (something no Bradley team has come close to under Geno, except in their dreams).
And so much for Bradley's vaunted defensive prowess, and improving offense.
It's time for the PJ Star to stop sugar coating everything and be objective. This is the worst coached team I have ever seen at Bradley, and it just keeps getting worse. When coaches like Porter Moser, Marty Simmons, Mark Phelps, and many others routinely out-coach us, it is way past time for a change.
Maybe Dave can still write another one of his "Bradley didn't suck as bad as...(fill in the blank)" columns, and make a few clueless fans happy.Comment
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Here are some more stats from a game that "didn't suck as bad" as the Memphis game. Our center duo of Mike Shaw and Xavier Taylor had a grand total of 3 points on 1 for 6 shooting, had 11 rebounds (10 by Shaw) and 5 turnovers. X now has 51 points and has committed 53 fouls while Shaw has scored 50 points and has 54 fouls. Evansville's center Mockevicius had 14 points and 14 rebounds. I think Nate Wells could have helped in this game but our elite unfallable game plan I guess didn't call for our 7 footer to even get his practice jersey off. As a team Evansville had 17 assists on 24 FG's with 7 different players having at least 1 assist. BU had 7 assists on 18 FG's, Tramique had 5 and Shaw had 2. I had flashbacks to the last few years with Tramique charging down the lane and just throwing up a shot and hoping it goes in. How often do we have a guy who hits a few in a row, like Omari did in the 1st half, and either don't keep feeding him the ball or take him out because it's time to get his replacement in. But hey at least this game "didn't suck as bad" as the last one.Comment
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Agree about Nate. I would have liked to have seen a 7-footer affecting some of those Balentine shots in the lane. And while I know we don't have shooters, the thing I like about Nate in the post is that when it is passed to him he might -- just might -- pass as well as shoot. When it goes in to X, he doesn't even look for a pass option.Yajusneverno!Comment
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KW finally must have read what others are saying...then blames the players ... "somebody's got to get the ball in the basket"..
who...? who was recruited that can score?? None of them were scorers elsewhere....they were all either bench players, single digit scorers, disgruntled transfers, etc..
we have no shooters and everyone else except Geno & KW saw that 3.5 years ago...Comment
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