Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Pro Quality. Fan Perspective.
Login-facebook
Around SBN: Jim Irsay: We Can Make It Work With Peyton Manning

Ben Ball Open Game Thread

Well here we go. Here is to Kevin Love and Chase Stanback who sent in their LOI to play for the best coach in America yesterday.

Judging by Love's last visit at Pauley this is going to be ... uhm ... a natural fit:


Love in the Den/Photo Credit: Jack Rosenfeld

Good times.

Oh and I will say it again. While people are dreading over going to a regular season game watching Karl "the Thinker" Dorrell's underachieving football program, the Bruins Nation gets excited about freaking exhibition game. For those Dorrell apologists gushing about a bureaucratic bootlicker at the expense of best college basketball coach in America that should serve as our SCOREBOARD.

Anyways if you are looking to follow the game online (tip off 7:30 pm PST) you can do so by clicking here.

This is our first hoops game day open thread for 2006-07.

Well have at it boys and girls.

Thank you God for Ben Howland.

GO BRUINS.

Comment 9 comments  |  0 recs  | 

Do you like this story?

Comments

Display:

Great Pic
Too bad you weren't able to photoshop Singler out of it!  Basketball is here at last!

by charnaw on Nov 9, 2006 4:25 PM PST reply actions  

I hold no grudges
toward Singler, considering he wasn't even seriously looking our way until Love made his big push to get him here.

I've got a massive lab report to do tonight...but I think I can spare a couple of hours to support our basketball team and distract myself from the Thinker.

by Tydides on Nov 9, 2006 5:07 PM PST reply actions  

On call
for my 9am class tomorrow, but I think I can listen while I read and brief.

by bruinhoo on Nov 9, 2006 6:36 PM PST reply actions  

Half time numbers
UCLA 41, CSUH 27

AA 16 at half, 3/3 three pointers

JS 10

Roll 6

RW 4

James Keefe injured neck at practice, not expected to play.

6-7K at Pauley

Coach Wooden in the House.

by Ajax on Nov 9, 2006 8:40 PM PST reply actions  

63-44 Bruins
Westbrook picked up a quick 9 early in the second half with a 3.

I think AA has 20 now

by Ajax on Nov 9, 2006 9:03 PM PST reply actions  

80-53 Bruins
AA2 just took a charge.

JS just sat with 21.

4 minutes to go.

Den is in rare form.

by Ajax on Nov 9, 2006 9:18 PM PST reply actions  

Bruins win--87-61
Bruins shot 53% from the field and 53% from 3.

JS: 21 points, 3/3 from 3 and 7/8 from the field

AA: 18 points, 3/3 from 3

Russell Westbrook (aka RW2): 11

RW: 9 (We need more of this!)

Mike Roll: 10, 3/4 from 3

AA2: 7

LRMAM and DC: 5 each

Dragovic: 1

by Ajax on Nov 9, 2006 9:35 PM PST reply actions  

my thoughts from watching live
Josh Shipp is a beast.  I've thought ever since his freshman year that he was the most underrated player on our team, and that he was better than Aaron Afflalo that year.  Russell Westbrook is indeed a happy surprise for the team, he's playing with poise.  I'm waiting for LRMAM to explode -- he hasn't really shown that he's made a significant improvement from last year.  Ryan Wright made an impressive showing.  I dont know what to think of him quite yet.  

Dragovic.  Dude needs to take some shots.  And when he takes those shots, he needs to make them go in.  He looks clumsy on the floor and I've seen no sign of his supposed offensive prowess.  There were also a number of defensive plays where he would get a hand on the ball, but be too slow/clumsy to take it away.  Speaking of defense, our players were kind of scrambling to get to HSU perimeter shooters.  Aaron Afflalo got burned from the outside a couple times.  All in all, I'm pretty satisfied by our team's performance, we were raining three's at will.  I thought for sure we were in the 60%+ range, but 53% is damn good too.  

We need these guys to come back next year and play with Kevin Love.

by ranelar on Nov 9, 2006 10:11 PM PST reply actions  

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to Bruins Nation, an unofficial daily online scrap book covering the greatest collegiate athletic program in the nation. Established June 16, 2005. GO BRUINS.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Ks_ucla_small
A Break From Sports: Fun Old Pix of UCLA, Westwood
Small
UCLA Vital Signs and the Chianti Cancer

Recent FanPosts

Ucla_trumpets_small
Photos from UCLA vs. U$C
Jaxnjaz_school_pic_11_2011_small
Ben Howland Cracks ESPN's Bottom 10
Licenseplate_small
Who Is Your Most Hated anti-UCLA Villian?
Small
Comparison to Stanford Athletics Fundraising
Brad_pitt_as_achilles_small
Warning: Southern Cal May Have Better Hoops Future than UCLA
Troll_small
Hoops Thoughts
Uclabear1_small
Atlanta Fans Are Not Too Amused By Jim Mora's Falcon Comments
Small
The Moment I Realized Howland Lost Me
Ucla_trumpets_small
Photos from UCLA vs. Cal

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >


Managers

Uclabear1_small Nestor

Arron_afflalo1_small Tydides

Brad_pitt_as_achilles_small Achilles

377011_2642084725867_1068030137_32302525_1166539782_n_small Ryan Rosenblatt

Telemachus_small Telemachus

Licenseplate_small gbruin

2761_small tasser10

Blue_bellerophon_small Bellerophon

Img_0052_2_small Patroclus

Small DCBruins

Of Counsels

094_small Ajax

Menelaus2_small Menelaus

Small Meriones

Small Odysseus

Associates

Eee_small freesia39

Uclabruins_small AHMB