Comments on: Basketball: UCLA game thread

By: Bears

Bears — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:32:04 +0000

What a great road win. Alone in first place with 7 to go. Each of those 7 games is winnable. The UW game thrusday is huge! Students need to show up and arrive early to help drive home a big win. Time for Haas to produce some home cooking. Really excited for these last 4 week of Pac 10 play. These guys can do it!!!
Go Bears!

By: milo

milo — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:36:14 +0000

haha…thank you WSU for taking down UA. UW needs to finish the AZ sweep.

By: LR

LR — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:26:42 +0000

Dan,

Frison was the way to go and needs the work after a layoff. Max has limited upside, and his development is of secondary importance to winning the conference in a down year. Monty needs to generate some buzz around this program, get the alums and students back to Haas and stimulate recruiting. A win over UCLA (even this team) helps in all those areas. Playing Zhang wouldn’t have helped him accomplish those things. He had a very quiet 10 minutes against the Bruins at home and, as a “confidence guy” (Monty’s words), probably would’ve fared worse on the road. Good decision to sit him, IMO.

By: milo

milo — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:03:17 +0000

Got some decent minutes from MSF and Cal broke the zone on penetration…and it seems Jorge is most of the way back and he led the hustle, which keyed everything else. Also didn’t seem Randle’s knee bug him. Lets hope the Bears are finally reasonably healthy. Nice win…finally. Lets hope the WA schools can ding the AZ schools tonight. Go Bears.

By: The Wisdom Cow

The Wisdom Cow — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:44:08 +0000

Two thoughts:

One, the only real difference between this game and the last match up against the Bruins is that UCLA did not make 8 of their last 10 three pointers of regulation.

Two, I do not know which suprised me more – our seniors not giving up once down by 12 early, or myself not giving up on them.

By: SteveNTexas

SteveNTexas — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:55:18 +0000

Whoopie maybe we will split against the worst UCLA team since at least 2003 (although the Pac 10 was much stronger then) . Most likely this is the worst UCLA team since Wilber Jones was the coach- remember him … 1947

There is a decent argument that the 1947 Bruins could beat the current ones— even if played today provided there were enough ’47 Bruins alive to put 5 players on the floor.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:50:38 +0000

UCLA gets the foul call inside every time, even though they intiate contact every time and our guy is standing still with their arms straight up. Pac 10 officials are their usual subpar selves.

Another unforced turnover, this one by Randle. Clock stops, Bruins shooting free throws. Man, the Bears can’t get out of their own way. Split the free throws, still up by 10. BE SMART, for heavens sake!!

Randall THREEEE!

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:46:30 +0000

Back to being up by 12- just quit shooting too quickly here, play smart, run some clock and offense trying to get some high percentage shots, and close this thing out.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:44:09 +0000

Another game where Max never even gets on the floor. He’s either in your rotation or not.

Way to develop him Montgomery.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:41:18 +0000

Win or lose, this just continues to be a hard team to watch. What a bad decision making team- dribbling into trouble, stopping their dribble, putting themselves into bad offensive positions (like being double teamed), quick poor shots early in the shot clock, stupid passes leading to turnovers and easy fast break baskets the other way.

Cal should be up by 20 if they weren’t so stupid. They beat themselves more than the other team does. So much for experience and senior leadership.