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Missouri State 91 Bradley 80

I was wanting to see Wade Knapp play since he choose MS over the BRaves but he did not get into the game........does he get minutes or is he hurt? I remember how hard we wanted to get him so I thought he would play?
 
molar50 said:
Unfortunately, this will hurt for several years, as we are not getting freshmen (except for SM), who could develop into good players in the future.
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Have to disagree with you here molar... I think that we have a decent set of underclassmen for the future...

SamM--as you pointed out with your post
Warren--only a sophomore
Thompson-redshirting this year but I liked what I saw from the skinny big guy in the exhibition games..
Egolf--yeah he is akward now, but there is talent there to develop.
 
This team is showing all of the characteristics of the pre-Chuck Buescher teams in the JL era. Bad defense, poor rebounding, can't play a full 40 minutes. The kids are talented, and we can't use the excuse that 'these aren't his players' anymore. If we were losing because we weren't good enough, that's one thing. But we are good enough, we just don't do the little things that we did the last 2 years.
 
This season is eerily similar to the Roberson/Dye senior season.

If you remember that year we loaded up with juco's (Selby, Flanders, Rabey, etc.) to try to go with the senior guards. The entire season their was a lack of chemistry on both ends, but we were always optimistic that we would "come around" and the talent would mesh. It never did.

A freshman Kyle Korver and a young post Sears/Walker Creighton bounced us in the first round of the MVC tournament with what seemed like a zillion 3's.

I know that we have the injury factor with Ruff, but I felt this way before he was injured. You just haven't seen any flow on offense or consistency on defense.

All the entangable stats are bad. I really hope I am wrong, but at least at this point I don't see an "epiphany" on the horizon.
 
I tend to agree with D, but unfortunately I see more of a problem from our "veterans", Crouch and Salley. Crouch has been disappointing this year to say the least. His ball handling is poor, and his shooting has been only average. He does however force some good turnovers at times, but does that make up for all the times he throws the ball away? It's sad to see such a promising player go downhill. Matt has played decent this year, but last night also had problems holding on to the ball and coming down with rebounds, and as the underneath player he needs to be on the boards.

Singh had an awesome game IMO, and definately deserves more playing time. I would love to see Collins in center accompanied by Singh down low, Wilson slashing the center, with Warren and Sam M at point. Rotate in Austin and Salley to give Collins/Singh a break.

I also hope Warren can keep playing as well as he did last night. He unfortunately has been too inconsistant this year.

My last comment is regarding the poor defense. Half the time it appears as if they aren't even trying. There were a couple of the Bear's freethrows where Manswell was under the basket. Had they missed, he would've had the rebound. On our end, most of our freethrows had 1 Brave left in the middle of 4 Bears. That just doesn't cut it! The need to learn to box out and at least try for position to get rebounds!
 
Didn't see the game, but it looks like it was a better effort than the UNI game ... so that's a major plus. Gotta keep plugging away
 
Dallas Brave said:
Didn't see the game, but it looks like it was a better effort than the UNI game ... so that's a major plus. Gotta keep plugging away
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Effort wasn't the problem against UNI. The shots just weren't falling. They were falling so well in the 1st half last night that any kind of defensive effort and we'd have been up 10-15 at half instead of just 4. I'd say the efforts were similar, as were the results.
 
BradleyBrave said:
Effort wasn't the problem against UNI. The shots just weren't falling. They were falling so well in the 1st half last night that any kind of defensive effort and we'd have been up 10-15 at half instead of just 4. I'd say the efforts were similar, as were the results.
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I'd offer that the teams "psychie" (sp) was better for MS vs UNI. The team had more time to accept and adjust to being without DR.

I expect continued improvement...as Dallas stated, "just keep pluggin along'.
 
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