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Post Game: BU Loses 59-75 @ Mich. St.

Big Mike said:
WEll sitting @ 4-3 right now....losing @ 19 Florida and @ 12 Micigan State is about what is expected from this years team so far...the only bad loss IMO was losing to UMKC...If it wasn't for that...this season is about where I thought it would be!
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The Butler and UWM game will be the two big games ahead for us. If we get them both and run the rest of the non conference schedule, we really are only off by 1 game by what most of us would have thought.

8-3 would will be very acceptable. A nice 5 game winning streak going into the SIU game on the would be very nice.
 
Big Mike said:
http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x1049846893/Bradley-falls-at-Michigan-State

report card...http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x1720683817/Bradley-report-card
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Reading anything from the pjstar =
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Just watched the game again...Jim Jackson, one of the announcers said...If your a recruit who likes to shoot the 3...you need to play for Bradley...they shoot the 3...that is their Offense and you should go there! I hope some were listening! :lol:
 
Big Mike said:
Maybe some people like it...I think we all know where you stand Mr Happy! :rolleyes:
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What? I'm not "Mr Happy".

IMO, the PJStar is crap and there are some out there who like crap when they don't know any better or they don't know crap when they see it. I try to educate them and let them know there is better.

As in... BRADLEYFANS.COM

I don't like crap. So I refuse to click on crap. And I refuse to read from crap.
 
Big Mike said:
Just watched the game again...Jim Jackson, one of the announcers said...If your a recruit who likes to shoot the 3...you need to play for Bradley...they shoot the 3...that is their Offense and you should go there! I hope some were listening! :lol:
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I was wondering if anyone else heard that comment. I thought is was a very good recruiting tool for JL and BU to use in the future. JL and staff need to have a tape of just this comment and play it to all possible recruits.

As for the game until this team can find a shooter to take over a game we are going to have our struggles. As for TB and AT & playing time they will both need to get to work in practice and then the playing time will come. Until that happens & AW is healthy (and that is still a good question as to when that happen) we are going to be a team that is going to have a lot of off nights but then also have those nights when we shoot the lights out. I said before the season that we are going to be a team that struggles early but we should be OK by conf. season and even better by the MVC Tourn. I still stand by that prediction even w/o WE whom I predicteed would be a key for this team (and if he had not got I really believe I would have been correct.
 
Quite frankly, this game was lost at the FT line. Shooting 59% FT's on 26 attempts is just unacceptable. Perhaps with Will's injury, they might of practiced on other points of emphasis but I think it's time to get back to the basics. Make another 8 or 9 of those FT's and were within a couple 3 pointers down to the last second. I pretty much expected the 3 point shooting to be bad, but again, 18%, come on. I think Les should of subbed out Singh earlier in the 2nd half when MSU exploded to a 12 point lead. SS seemed in slow motion or something, 2 or 3 MSU players were just flying around him for the boards and easy buckets. I still want to see Taylor starting or at least splitting half and half with DC. Taylor was 2 for 3 with 5 points and 5 boards in only 13 minutes of play. That was virtually as good as what DC and Singh had combined in 34 minutes of play. He might of let in a couple easy layups but was still better than the other options. Hopefully the team gets in a rhythm playing every 3-4 days now. That 8 days off and playin at a tough arena might of killed their rhythm today.

Jason
 
Big Mike said:
http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x1049846893/Bradley-falls-at-Michigan-State

report card...http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x1720683817/Bradley-report-card

KW...http://www.pjstar.com/sports/x1009159131/Wessler-More-questions-than-answers
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Thanks for the links Mike...still searching for the "crap" though. Alls that I read was three well written pieces with facts, opinions and general, information. Kinda like the same stuff I read on this board on a daily basis but with much better grammar, punctuation with some of the same insight but done from guys that have figured out how to get paid to do it. Impressive.
 
dogsrus said:
Thanks for the links Mike...still searching for the "crap" though. Alls that I read was three well written pieces with facts, opinions and general, information. Kinda like the same stuff I read on this board on a daily basis but with much better grammar, punctuation with some of the same insight but done from guys that have figured out how to get paid to do it. Impressive.
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This deserves Post of the Year!
 
Guinness said:
4/22 from the 3, looks like we're not learning that we're not a 3 point shooting team this year.
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Wait...We aren't a great shooting team?...but I thought that was a fallacy, and was proven to be incorrect beyond a shadow of a doubt over our past 3 games?;-)
 
bu fan 9 said:
People didn't understand how good Ruffin was until now.
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Or JC... go to scorer when you need one to make a basket to stop momentum. Someone on this team needs to step up and make big shots... We needed a score right before the half, I think we had 3 straight possessions down 5 and never converted. Someone needed to take the ball and make a basket.

Jason is right on... no team can go 59% on 26 attempts on the road or even at home and hope to win a basketball game.. that stuff is just not acceptable.

I would love to see the break down of the game and exactly how many open 3's we missed. Ill guess 10 were uncontested.
 
Big Mike said:
Just watched the game again...Jim Jackson, one of the announcers said...If your a recruit who likes to shoot the 3...you need to play for Bradley...they shoot the 3...that is their Offense and you should go there! I hope some were listening! :lol:
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Had them ears first time he said it...
 
Just got back from East Lansing about an hour ago. Sooo tired from a lot of traveling this weekend, but it was a great experience for sure. There were alot of things that really disappointed me today, but there were def. some good things as well. I need sleep ... more tomorrow.
 
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Shooting, both free throws and three's, undoubtedly did us in, as many of you have pointed out. But, to me our biggest weakness was our defense. JL obviously did not believe we could guard them man to man, and had us switching back and forth between a 2-3 and a 1-3-1 with a sprinkling of man. I don't argue with playing a zone against that team. I don't think they liked playing against one, especially in the first half. They did make 19 turnovers, most of them unforced.
But we obviously don't play a very good zone. And all the switching back and forth caused some confusion on our part at times.
But the most glaring weakness, IMHO, is our defensive rebounding. We don't block out at all, even when we are in a man, and when we are in a zone that weaknessis is compounded.
Michigan State was very beatable yesterday. That may have been the worst exhibition I have ever seen an Izzo team display.
We take away all those second shots they got and just come up with a decent job at the free throw line, and the end of the game would have been very interesting.
 
MSU didn't play all that well in my opinion. They seem to be content jacking up three's and shooting quick shots when they were clearly superior inside.
When they went inside either by pass or drive they were more effective.
They just wore us out in the second half.
Our ft shooting was offset by their countless unforced turnovers
 
onetuffshot said:
Michigan State was very beatable yesterday. That may have been the worst exhibition I have ever seen an Izzo team display.
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Beatable, maybe, I agree, but the worst MIchigan State has ever played? I think that is a little exaggerated. MSU shot 47% in the second half and 42% overall, and 9-19 (47%) from three- far from the worst they have ever shot, and not even close to the worst they have played this year (see their stats against Maryland, among other games).
They outrebounded Bradley 49-38, and Bradley has been outrebounding most teams they've played. They made their free throws (80%), and they got very good production from their deep bench.

I thought MSU played well, maybe not the best they could, but they were solid, and they had those big physical forwards, to go along with big, quick, good-shooting guards. That is a very difficult type of team for anyone to beat, let alone a small BU team, missing their top scorer AW, and missing Will Egolf, and with SM playing hurt.
 
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