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Braves lose 73-68

I'm not sure Creighton can play any better than they did tonight...and Bradley still should have won. That gives me hope for the rest of the year.
 
Pretty good game.

Creighton made too many 3s, we didn't make enough.

Poor FT shooting down the stretch.

Ridiculous turnover by POY at 69-68 trying to take the lead.

Game balls go to: Taylor Brown, Will Egolf, Sammy Maniscalco, and Sam Singh. I thought all 4 played well.
 
chitown fanatic said:
You can be as positive at 10-10 as you want to be friend. I prefer to let the results speak for themselves. You have no defense for that. No opinion makes any difference. Only factual reality. My suggestion is for Les to make a defensive adjustment on teams who continue to bomb away against us from 3 at home night in and night out. What's yours? Let me guess. Great effort and hustle, right? The kids tried hard, right? Ostriches belong in the zoo.
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Our 3 point defense has not been the problem this year. In the past yes, but it has not been that bad this season. Again, I didn't see the game, but even tonight it doesn't appear to have been terrible - they were 12-31.
 
SFP said:
Reffs in the MVC are just plain and simple terrible! Reffs can make a difference!
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I hope so. If you are insinuating that the referees were part of the problem tonight, that's a huge cop out. If you are pulling my leg, carry on.
 
chitown fanatic said:
You can be as positive at 10-10 as you want to be friend. I prefer to let the results speak for themselves. You have no defense for that. No opinion makes any difference. Only factual reality. My suggestion is for Les to make a defensive adjustment on teams who continue to bomb away against us from 3 at home night in and night out. What's yours? Let me guess. Great effort and hustle, right? The kids tried hard, right? Ostriches belong in the zoo.
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It is not a factual reality that Bradley is a program with no direction that is always underachieving. That is an opinion. I believe four straight 21 win seasons no matter how they are gotten with some post season success is a good start on slowly building a program. Funny I just posted an Outside the Lines story about teams fans expecting too much too fast. I think we are trending towards more success, but that is an opinion not factual reality but nor is your opinion. And I'm sure Les is trying to make adjustments. Also anyone can be positive at anytime for the future. I don't like where we are at, but I have hope for the future. Some people's stress levels here must be so high with the constant negativity.
 
flipper said:
should of, would of could of. thank you.
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What are you talking about? Creighton clearly played out of their shoes today and Bradley stuck in it with rebounding and effort despite struggling with the outside shot.

There are days in college basketball where you get beat by a decent team that has a very good shooting day and plays above its level. Creighton won because they were lucky and hit more shots, not because they're the better team.
 
I dont know about anyone else but when someone else is doing better than I am, my first question is "What are they doing?" and then "How do I outdo them?". And then you go out there and bust your behind to be the champ. Excuses never get you there. The situation is what we make of it.

What really makes you good? What really makes you the winner? Overcoming "bad refs" to win anyway.

How many home games have we lost this season? How many times have we won the MVC tournament in the last 10 years? How many home games has Creighton lost? How many times have they won the tournament in the last 10 years? And hell, this year is one of their "down years".

See a pattern yet? No more leaving it up to chance. Light a fire under everyone. Get it done.
 
VeveJones007 said:
What are you talking about? Creighton clearly played out of their shoes today and Bradley stuck in it with rebounding and effort despite struggling with the outside shot.

There are days in college basketball where you get beat by a decent team that has a very good shooting day and plays above its level. Creighton won because they were lucky and hit more shots, not because they're the better team.
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what are you talking about. i am tired of some making excuses on why we are medicore. creighton was lucky? they aren't better after they beat us on our home court? how old are you? please tell me you were joking.
 
BUfan14 said:
It is not a factual reality that Bradley is a program with no direction that is always underachieving. That is an opinion. I believe four straight 21 win seasons no matter how they are gotten with some post season success is a good start on slowly building a program. Funny I just posted an Outside the Lines story about teams fans expecting too much too fast. I think we are trending towards more success, but that is an opinion not factual reality but nor is your opinion. And I'm sure Les is trying to make adjustments. Also anyone can be positive at anytime for the future. I don't like where we are at, but I have hope for the future. Some people's stress levels here must be so high with the constant negativity.
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Two of those seasons were due to ....lets admit it.... extremely low quality post season tournaments with 4-6 games each pretty much HANDED to us. In reality it was the 06 NCAA Sweet 16 and the 07 NIT season.
 
VeveJones007 said:
I'm not sure Creighton can play any better than they did tonight...and Bradley still should have won. That gives me hope for the rest of the year.
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Good observation, I agree completely. They played great and we shot poorly and still had a chance to win a game that we missed to many free throws and didn't deserve to win. Now we really need to win Sat at ISU.
 
flipper said:
please dont blame the refs for this loss and lose all credibilty.
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He's not blaming them completely, he is saying they make a difference. And in who's eyes does he lose credibility? I don't think many will listen to any type of defense of Bradley anyway
 
chitown fanatic said:
My suggestion is for Les to make a defensive adjustment on teams who continue to bomb away against us from 3 at home night in and night out.
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You didn't like switching to zone multiple times against a team on fire from 3? Every time we went zone tonight, I turned to my wife and said, here comes another 3 make from CU.
 
The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.
 
flipper said:
what are you talking about. i am tired of some making excuses on why we are medicore. creighton was lucky? they aren't better after they beat us on our home court? how old are you? please tell me you were joking.
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Yes he obviously knows nothing because he has a different opinion. I think he made sense. Is South Carolina better than Kentucky? Using your theory they are.
 
Da Coach said:
The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.
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How do you know this is the best game they played all year?
 
Da Coach said:
The Braves played well. Creighton played the best game they have played all year. Creighton was the worst free throw shooting team, and the worst 3-point shooting team before tonight's game, but they shot extraordinarily well.
Like it or not, there were several questionable charging calls that cost Bradley 3 baskets, and there was a bizarre 5-point play awarded Creighton with a foul under the basket on a made shot. That is something you'll be lucky to see once every 10 years, despite the fact that on every shot in every game there is far more contact and pushing under baskets.

I am proud of the team for playing touh and hanging in on a night when their shots weren't falling. Hopefully, there won't be so many fans that seem to want to bail out on this team like we see here every time they lose a game.
Or we could fire all the coaches and hire some of those here who are far smarter.
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We could hire people with more experience and better records. What a concept.
 
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