Mata-bores: Bruins Crush CSUN

by Tydides on Dec 7, 2008 9:36 PM PST in Basketball

Bruins run away from CSUN early despite turnovers and sloppy play to win 85-67 (box score). Jrue Holiday and Josh Shipp led the Bruins with 14 points and DC had 13. Aboya and Keefe nearly joined their fellow starters in double figures with 9 each.

If nothing else, the Bruins avoided repeating the past and left no doubt that there would not be a Lavin-esque letdown tonight. Instead, the Bruins stepped on the Matadors' throats early.

Photo Credit: AP (via Yahoo)

When CSUN went to a trap against the freshmen, the game understandably got sloppy on our end. Once again, turnovers and free throws were a problem for the Bruins, so there is still a great deal of room for improvement still.

Now that the Bruins have a week off (for finals) hopefully we see this team take another step. We've seen the defense and rotations solidify a little bit after our last week long break against Texas, and we need to use this week off to continue working at this pace to get to where we need to be. For early December, we're still looking pretty good with not a lot of (unpleasant) surprises.

Just another step to attaining Ben Ball greatness.

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Just one positive note

both Bobo and Gordon have good looking shots down low, and Gordon has a nice high-post stroke, too.

by bornagainbruin on Dec 7, 2008 9:52 PM PST reply actions

holiday

have you noticed how much holiday looks like cameron dollar?

by bruinbornandraised on Dec 7, 2008 10:34 PM PST reply actions

BOBO and Gordon

agreed that bobo and gordon looked good on offense especially with how raw they were earlier in the season.

I am still frustrated by our trend of allowing one of their players get enormous amount of points. Minus two games or so, we have allowed a 20-point scorer is all games…. just something that needs to be worked on

GO BRUINS!!! CHEER LIKE CHAMPIONS!!!

by bk bruin on Dec 7, 2008 11:31 PM PST reply actions

Pardon?

Sloppy is understandable when your roster is depleted by 3 departures to the NBA and you are trying to get quality playing time for your freshman. They’ll need that time to develop into dependable players—the kind necessary for a deep run in March. Coach didn’t need to run up numbers and he did not ignore fundamental defense. Howland knows what he is doing and he is going to get the job done his way, not Coach K’s or anyone else’s.

by brand0n on Dec 8, 2008 12:41 AM PST reply actions

Deleted and Warned

BruinAlum only comes by to crap on the team’s effort and to spout his impatient bullshit. He’s borderline trolling at this point, especially with some stupid opening line about “Coach K winning by 40” a couple of days after his team lost to Michigan. He has no perspective at all, and he gives Bruin basketball fans a bad name.

by Tydides on Dec 8, 2008 12:45 AM PST up reply actions

Pretty cool

At halftime they showed a video on the scoreboard of our players trying to lead an 8-clap. It was absolutely hilarious and was pretty much just a gag-reel of them messing up. I hope someone can record it or get a copy somewhere because everyone needs to see this video.

by lil eg not cs on Dec 8, 2008 1:43 AM PST reply actions