Followups of BU guys and recruits, more ISU issues, etc...

Here's how a few other our past Bradley Braves players and former recruits fared over the weekend...

-Andrew Warren's Cairns Taipans won again beating Adelaide 87-75, with Andrew playing well especially on defense.

-Zach Andrews played well again for his LA D-Fenders of the NBDL...
He had 10 pts, 15 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks, and a steal...
Osiris Eldridge who was playing for the opponent, Bakersfield, had 24 pts, but took 23 shots (as usual) to get it done.

-Halifax won again 113-99 as Lawrence Wright rested a bit this game and scored only 6 pts, in 15 minutes....Boogie is still 5th in the league in scoring!

-Chris Roberts had 8 pts, 6 rebs in his team's easy win - Texas Legends 91 - Canton 82.

-Dodge City lost to #12 ranked Seward 81-75...as always I have the stats when they are simply unavailable anywhere else...
The score was quite close the whole way with Seward outscoring Dodge City down the stretch to take an 11 pt lead at 76-65 - but DCCC stormed back and almost sent the game to overtime before Seward fended off the challenge for the final 6-pt margin of 81-75.
Dodge normally gets good production off the bench but didn't in this game - and were outscored in bench production 18-5 by Seward.
Tyshon was 5-11 from the floor, and also 6-9 from the FT line for
16 points, 10 rebounds, and 3 assists, and 2 steals....in 36 minutes.

-Jim Les lost another of his starters to injury over the weekend - it's gonna be a long year...
but a very bright spot is the play of Tyler Les...
he made 3-5 from 3-pt range over the weekend, and now he is the LEADER in the entire conference (Big West) in 3-pt shooting and hitting nearly 50% and making more than 3 per game...

-Turkey has an All Star game that divides their best players into Turkish players vs. their foreign players...
We don't have any ex-Braves playing in Turkey but the "Foreigners" won 140-139.
http://www.eurobasket.com/Turkey/basketball.asp?NewsID=257056

-Ex-Bradley recruit Matt Roth (6 pts on 2-2 from 3-pt) helped the Hoosiers beat Penn State 73-54...
Sadly though they game turned ugly at the end...
One of the Penn State players fouled Christian Watford as Watford launched yet another 3-pt attempt with only seconds to go and Indiana already ahead by nearly 20!
It happened right in front of the Indiana bench and Tom Crean verbally attacked the Penn State player then some of his bench players - notably Will Sheehey, went onto the court after the guy...
Sheehey picked up two technicals and was run off the court & ejected.
The fight is seen here about 4 minutes into this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLOU_-D_ojw

Also seen after one of Matt Roth's 3-pointers is a little cocky trash talking and the ever-present and stupid little "3-goggle" crap that every high schooler seems to do nowadays.....come on guys - grow up a little...
by the end of his college career, Matt Roth may just have a grand total of maybe 500 career points - and a little over 100 3-pointers - not even what Jeremy Crouch had in ONE single season in 2007-2008 ...so let's put this into perspective...

-AP (Anthony Parker) is still with the struggling Cavs - he's off to a slow start but the Cavs have a chance to battle for a playoff spot this year!
They were at .500 until losing their lst 3.

-Danny Granger is having another solid season - 16 ppg, 4 rpg - but those numbers are definitely way off his recent years' numbers.


-Lastly - ex-Bradley recruit Iman Shumpert is getting a great chance to play for the Knicks - since the Knicks management simply did not plan well and they have NO other point guards!
He had a really nice game Saturday with 18 pts, 7 asst., and 4 rebs..
In 12 games now he's averaging 12.3 ppg, and 3.6 apg.
The Knicks also went after Josh Harrelson who is also underproductive and now out with fracture and my miss the rest of the season...
and we all recall Renaldo Balkman (1st round pick) who doesn't even see the court any more!
They have not planned well nor made good decisions despite spending plenty of millions....and to think people criticized Isiah Thomas!!


I get a real kick out of ISU fans who point at minor discipline issues at other schools...do those fans have no clue what's going on right under their noses??

They have multiple players currently on their own basketball roster with assault arrests...
Their reported "suspension" for disciplinary reasons lasted a grand total of a couple days and one game...a meaningless blowout of SIUE...
http://wjbc.com/tags/darious-clark/

But not only have their been a whole lot of major legal issues at ISU recently - a whole lot of kids have been run out at ISU the past couple seasons...here's just some....
..Kellen Thornton, Bobby Hill, Justin Clark, Terry Johnson, Kenyon Smith, Jeremy Robinson, Ty Modupe, Sead Odzic, Landon Shipley, Mike Vandello..
...all of whom have been Janked out thru the revolving door at ISU in just the past year or two ...many after getting arrested...serious stuff!
Here's just a brief list of some of just the more serious-robberies, batteries, rapes-
http://is.gd/JBXI7y
http://is.gd/NieUbF
http://is.gd/iiTZxU
http://is.gd/eULhfp

They've also had a few DUI's a drug related arrests..and virtually none of those was ever suspended even a single game!! Not even a single practice - as has been proven before..
I get a snicker out of ISU folks pointing fingers at other schools who have minuscule issues by comparison...



Also at ISU - they have a football player who has walked on for basketball and he was logging some pretty good minutes although he had only 6 pts in their BLOWOUT loss at Drake - but he was still in near the end of the game and re-injured his previously fractured ankle...
Bryant Allen is said by head coach Tim Jankovich to have an injury more serious than a sprain - so there's speculation it could be broken again.
He has not played in over a week since that loss.



Also - seems that the very people who whined that Bradley had to make massive changes and that we'd be immediately better - are all suddenly going into hiding although some are occasionally bitching about this year's team or out there shooting messangers...
one of our local sports editors was among the MOST vocal demanding a change and saying we couldn't be any worse...
Well, KW, you got your wish but you're being pretty naive saying we look good and could be out of the cellar in the MVC soon...
I sure don't remember JL's squads being this inept at scoring - barely hitting in the 40's and unable to even get a decent shot on key possessions.
As bad and fraught with injuries as we were last year - we only scored in the 40's twice...and once was at Duke and the other was still only a 20 pt loss at Wichita not 40 points.
We've scored in the 40's already four times this season - you have to go back and include the entire LAST four seasons of the JL era to find four 40-point regular-season games....
It might seem BU is at a low ebb - but it seemed that way a month ago and it clearly has gotten worse since..
Look for even a bit more fallout - it's not done yet...




The team from the Canarias Basketball Academy - where Michael Ochereobia was from - is touring the US and playing here...
http://www.zagsblog.com/2012/01/23/canarias-basketball-academy-making-u-s-tour/