Final score: TCU 74 Bradley 42

[Big Mike]

Very hard to watch....trying to come up with something we do good and turnovers is all I can come up with! Something wrong here....we seem to be getting worse? Way to many soft passes to no one and for no reason.....how does this happen this far into the season with Valley play ready to start? Brown and Thomas are the only two showing signs of life in 1st half!

[Da Coach]

It's a difficult threshold to meet, but that just might have been our worst half of basketball this year.

Halftime score:
TCU 38 Bradley 20

Bradley shot 8-21, 38%....2-9, 22% on threes, and 2-6, 33% on FTs
Bradley outrebounded 23-15 (13 offensive rebounds for TCU!)
12 turnovers, nearly all of them were unforced on soft lazy passes
13 personal fouls, several of them giving TCU 3-point plays

Just about as ugly an offense as I can imagine. I can't tell what our purpose is on offense. The passing is worse than most junior high school teams. And the shooting continues to be terrible. Defense at times looked decent, but broke down too easily and gave up too many points late in the shot clock, or gave up offensive rebounds when TCU missed. I don't know if I can watch much more.

What is most frustrating is that I think the talent is a little better than Geno's teams, but the play is just as bad or worse.

[Vent]

Discipline is better. The talent isn't and the floor coaching isn't. Otherwise results would be better.

[Jim]

Turnovers

Have we made any improvement in reducing turnovers this year? Even with the new point guards is seems like we have not improved at all. How do the new guys compare to Suggs (turnovers)?

[Big Mike]

Nice to see Koch show some life again!

[Da Coach]

Not much more to say- this stunk from start to finish. Another game where we have no player in double figures.

Final score: TCU 74 Bradley 42

Final stats-

http://www.gofrogs.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mbaskbl.html?event=1516781&school=tcu&sport=mbaskbl&camefrom=&startschool=&

Thomas, Pittman, and Bar with 8 points each to lead Bradley
Rebounds: Bar with 9, Thomas with 7, Van Bree with 6

Bradley- 42 points
Field Goals: 17-48, 35.4%
Free Throws: 6-13, 46.2%
3-Pointers: 2-14, 14.3%
Off. Rebounds: 8
Def. Rebounds: 26
Total Rebounds: 34
Assists: 11
Blocks: 5
P. Fouls: 21
T. Fouls: 0
Turnovers:18

TCU- 74 points
Field Goals: 25-65, 38.5%
Free Throws: 14-19, 73.7%
3-Pointers: 10-26, 38.5%
Off. Rebounds: 19
Def. Rebounds: 27
Total Rebounds: 46
Assists: 21
Blocks: 5
P. Fouls: 16
T. Fouls: 0
Turnovers: 11

[bigjimmy]

I'm trying to remember that this is the Christmas season so I'll just say I hope the guys enjoy their Christmas and are ready to go against SIU.

[Braves2006]

I'm trying to remember that this is the Christmas season so I'll just say I hope the guys enjoy their Christmas and are ready to go against SIU.

LOL ....Don't kid yourself, we have no hope against SIU....or anyone in the Valley at this point.

[tornado]

as a team we now have 189 turnovers on the season..
that's 30 to 40 more than every other team in the MVC and it's 75 more than UNI has..
add to that - we shot under 50% from the FT line and gave up a humongous number of 2nd chances with offensive rebounds giving them 20 extra possessions!

I'd like to think we're just making mistakes because we're a young team, but these things are so consistent

[Vent]

The mistakes we make, for the most part, are not because of our youth.

[molar50]

When you cannot make 50% of your free throws, you should not be even playing Div I college basketball.

[Vent]

when you cannot make 50% of your free throws, you should not be even playing div i college basketball.

amen!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lefty]

When you cannot make 50% of your free throws, you should not be even playing Div I college basketball.

In fairness that was one player....take out Bar's 0-4 and we were 66%....not great and not a lot of ft's but still

[Chico]

Discipline is better. The talent isn't and the floor coaching isn't. Otherwise results would be better.

Coach Wardle was put in an almost impossible situation and had to practically start from scratch. Give him a break.

[Da Coach]

I think almost everyone understands the unique situation Coach Wardle inherited, and are willing to be patient. However, what I hear from many fans, and what concerns me, is that these current players consistently underperform, make too many of the same mistakes game after game, and don't seem to have a clue how to stop teams defensively or make adjustments and correct the flow of games (both on offense and defense) when they are getting away from them. I know I have been critical of these things, but isn't some of that on the coaches and the game plan? And even if it is all on the players, who recruited them?