(11-16-2022 12:47 PM)Miggy Wrote:  Brutal game last night. EMU looked like a far different team that played so well against Michigan.

Sorry to have to say this but Bradley looked like a well coached team and EMU a poorly coached team. Doubt Heath would disagree.

Every EMU shot looked contested. No in and out passes for easy open three's. No pick and pops and no pick and rolls. Worse percentage shot is jump shot off the dribble and that's what EMU players did all night.

Billingsley plays with no energy. When healthy, believe Pranger a far better player.

Where is Rice? As Acuff a mess right now, and Lovejoy too inexperienced.

Noah played entirely too fast on offense.

Defense a mess, zone approach, with EMU players running from 8 feet away to close out on perimeter shooters.

A defense should want opponent bigs to shoot jumpers from the foul-line or from sides of the foul-line.

Rather than play a defense and have a big guard the rim, EMU has it's stray away from the hoop. As a result, opponent simple goes around them time and time again and either scores at rim or draw fouls. At least the defender should be told to keep weight back so the can move and prevent offensive player from getting to the hoop.

Bad night.

I agree, but I have a question:

How did Howard coach UofM? How did Bradley's coach coach differently?

Did the Bradley coach discover a secret? Or was EMU just plain bad, unmotivated, tired or whatever?

P.S. I doubt we find the answer here. Maybe Tom can extract the answer Saturday from Stan, if even Stan knows.

Sometimes a game will be really bad and there were no warning signs.