Bear Down Wildcats

Traffic must be brutal tonight in Westwood.

SCCat wrote:I know it's early, teams will change and gel and etc etc, but UCLA looks pretty pedestrian.

Theyve got some size. But no where close to looking strong. Alford as point guard is going to be a real prob for them on the defensive end esp.

Isaac Hamilton looks much better than he did in HS. Totally different player

SCCat wrote:I know it's early, teams will change and gel and etc etc, but UCLA looks pretty pedestrian.

They've been coasting in both offense and defense so far. Need to play a real team to get a better feel but they've looked better than pedestrian

We need UCLA to be better than anticipated. For that matter, we need the same from all the teams in the Pac 12.

Go Cats!!

MrBug708 wrote:

SCCat wrote:I know it's early, teams will change and gel and etc etc, but UCLA looks pretty pedestrian.

They've been coasting in both offense and defense so far. Need to play a real team to get a better feel but they've looked better than pedestrian

Well if you say that's what it is then that must be what it is. In the one half of basketball in their first two games that I've watched they look very pedestrian, very much like a team appropriately ranked (see:fringe top 25).

MrBug708 wrote:

SCCat wrote:I know it's early, teams will change and gel and etc etc, but UCLA looks pretty pedestrian.

They've been coasting in both offense and defense so far. Need to play a real team to get a better feel but they've looked better than pedestrian

Bug apparently struggling with the word "pedestrian."

Heh!

While the schedule is crap, under Howland, these games would be close at halftime before we pull out an 11 point win

MrBug708 wrote:While the schedule is crap, under Howland, these games would be close at halftime before we pull out an 11 point win

Agreed. Alford is clearly the 2nd best coach in UCLA history. Didn't take him long!

Heh!

This is actually horrible for the Pac-12

Lmao

how far before tipoff was that?

Considering the time of the tweet, like 20 minutes

PieceOfMeat wrote:how far before tipoff was that?

Pre-game layup drill and broadcast standup so I'm guessing 20 minutes before tip.

If the parents of recruits are publicly calling out your attendance, your fans have failed you in a big way.

ASUHATER! wrote:Considering the time of the tweet, like 20 minutes

shows how little I use twitter, I didn't even remember it had time stamps on tweets.
(also shows how I don't pay attention to the entire tweet, and only the text/picture of it. d'oh!)

Chicat wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:how far before tipoff was that?

Pre-game layup drill and broadcast standup so I'm guessing 20 minutes before tip.

If the parents of recruits are publicly calling out your attendance, your fans have failed you in a big way.

I didn't even read who it was from. That's even more hilarious now.

Someone should tweet her some pics of our recent games

Looks bad right now.

Powell probably the happiest of all the players to be playing for Alford

Well, we can cross UCLA out as a possible landing spot for Zimmerman.

Heh.

Being called out by a recruits parent. Hilarious. However, we know this is common unless Arizona or USC is in town. No news here.

Not used to playing in front of this many people?

Katzenfreund wrote:Bryce Alfred is UCLA's best player.

He really is. Made some pretty impressive shots. Hope we put Rondae on him.

Oklahoma was favored so I'm not surprised they lost, but having to play UNC next is probably the last thing they wanted.

Ugh, can they both lose?

Go ucla I guess.

Beat the tar holes.

I hate Unc, don't really care about ucla. Plus at this point, we might want them to win to help the conference out if we don't take care of our business.

MrBug708 wrote:Isaac Hamilton looks much better than he did in HS. Totally different player

Was he the worst high school basketball player of all time? He looked atrocious against UNC.

Good lord. Coach's son takes the most shots on the team, hits 30%, has 6 turnovers, can't make a 3pt shot, and his team loses by 20. Seems like a healthy situation.

Puerco wrote:Good lord. Coach's son takes the most shots on the team, hits 30%, has 6 turnovers, can't make a 3pt shot, and his team loses by 20. Seems like a healthy situation.

He's a point guard. It's what he does...

Puerco wrote:Good lord. Coach's son takes the most shots on the team, hits 30%, has 6 turnovers, can't make a 3pt shot, and his team loses by 20. Seems like a healthy situation.

going to be a problem going forward as any other player would have been taken off the court. This was the first game where it really showed. Norman Powell already looked fed up

MrBug708 wrote:

Puerco wrote:Good lord. Coach's son takes the most shots on the team, hits 30%, has 6 turnovers, can't make a 3pt shot, and his team loses by 20. Seems like a healthy situation.

going to be a problem going forward as any other player would have been taken off the court. This was the first game where it really showed. Norman Powell already looked fed up

I'd worry about him only being a sophomore and what that means for recruits over the next two years. Nobody wanted to play with Pete Maravich. Alford's shooting volume may only be one third of Pistol Pete's, but his floor time is the same and his talent and skill level is only one eleventh.

Chicat wrote:

Puerco wrote:Good lord. Coach's son takes the most shots on the team, hits 30%, has 6 turnovers, can't make a 3pt shot, and his team loses by 20. Seems like a healthy situation.

He's a point guard. It's what he does...

Pointless guard ...

Longhorned wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:

Puerco wrote:Good lord. Coach's son takes the most shots on the team, hits 30%, has 6 turnovers, can't make a 3pt shot, and his team loses by 20. Seems like a healthy situation.

going to be a problem going forward as any other player would have been taken off the court. This was the first game where it really showed. Norman Powell already looked fed up

I'd worry about him only being a sophomore and what that means for recruits over the next two years. Nobody wanted to play with Pete Maravich. Alford's shooting volume may only be one third of Pistol Pete's, but his floor time is the same and his talent and skill level is only one eleventh.

Just needs floppy hair, floppy socks and ... a nickname. Bazooka Bryce.

And in other UCLA-related news, UDub looks like deep-fried dogsh*t in the Wooden Classic semis against Long Beach State, down at half and chuckin' em everywhere with zero baseline D.

Merkin wrote:

FLA will be in the tourney. That's just crazy talk.

Florida is not a very good team this year...the SEC may be the only major conference worse than the PAC as well...

Saw a headline that said that UCLA was close to inking a home-and-home deal with Kentucky.

Chicat wrote:Saw a headline that said that UCLA was close to inking a home-and-home deal with Kentucky.

Those will be some lopsided outcomes -- yikes!

UCLA 43rd in one poll, 48th in the other

SCCat wrote:UCLA 43rd in one poll, 48th in the other

Gonna get worse. They play UK soon.

Heh.

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Must be more traffic in LA tonight.

Ucla looks like crap against usd.

Stop Bryce, keep Looney off the boards, and beating UCLA shouldn't be all that hard this year.

azcat34 wrote:Must be more traffic in LA tonight.

ahahahahahahahahahahahah

So beginning this season, UCLA is going to lose to UK three straight years (and that doesn't include any possible tourney meetings). How exactly is this supposed to benefit UCLA? Does getting rolled on national TV (three times!) make tomorrow's 5 stars gain interest in playing for Alford?

Beachcat97 wrote:So beginning this season, UCLA is going to lose to UK three straight years (and that doesn't include any possible tourney meetings). How exactly is this supposed to benefit UCLA? Does getting rolled on national TV (three times!) make tomorrow's 5 stars gain interest in playing for Alford?

The beatdowns UA received from UNC were really brutal from every standpoint. UA had to cancel the series when Miller took over.

And now UK will be getting an inroad into LA for recruiting?

Alford must be assuming he'll be able to compete, otherwise this series doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't think any coach in year 2 should be scheduling Kentucky, especially considering UCLA's current struggles against ranked teams.

My personal theory is that he's doing this high risk high reward series in order to better compete with Miller. We all know Arizona and Kentucky won't be scheduling any games against each other, so what better way to compete with Arizona than to take down the top team in the country? Even if UCLA gets the type of beatings we got against UNC, it's not like his job is in any danger.