Arizona Bonus Package

by Telemachus on Mar 3, 2008 1:53 AM PST in Basketball

The big story was a certain freshman: 10 of 11 from the line, 24 total points and 15 rebounds. We saw a lot of this yesterday from the big guy:

Give it to Love and good things happen, like this pass to Luc for a score:

Meanwhile, Collison was hot in the first half, at one point scoring five buckets without a miss like the following:

His biggest shot came in the second half to take the lead back that we wouldn't give up:

Seven of Love's ten free-throws would follow, as he accounted for nine of the last 14 points the Bruins would score. His layup plus the "and-1" free-throw stretched a tenuous 1-point lead to four with a little over three minutes to play.

The key defensive stop of the game followed by Luc's dunk put us up 67-61 with under 2:30 to play. This gave us just enough to escape with a victory, despite giving Arizona one more chance in the closing seconds.

Bonus video coverage links:

Post game interview with Coach Howland.
Comments by Jim Hill and James Worthy on how CBH defends his players.

Up next: Stanford and then Cal. Let's get it done!

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haha didn't catch that interview

because i had switched to laker game after the last shot, but you know Billy was just hating being told he was wrong haha. Gotta love it

O.A.

by Ollie on Mar 3, 2008 2:17 AM PST reply actions

Analysis and commentators

If Billy Packer were about half as smart as he thinks he is, he would be coaching the Bruins and Coach Howland would be muttering insipid comments to the few remaining people who have not adhered to the "Turn The Volume Down" philosophy.

I really don't care what Billy Packer (or Dickie V or any of the other really, really smart people who for some reason don't or can't coach) say about anything. And once "TTVD" becomes universal, maybe they can convince some AD that they should be coaching basketball.

by Fox 71 on Mar 3, 2008 5:09 AM PST up reply actions

Seeing Billy Packer being corrected

is always nice.

T-mach, only the textual link video clips worked for me. The embedded images are still; I can't play them.

by Bruinut on Mar 3, 2008 5:08 AM PST reply actions

Ditto for me on the embedded links

Bruinut are you running Vista 64-bit? Could this be the problem?

by bruin8uclap on Mar 3, 2008 5:20 AM PST up reply actions

Nope, WinXP 32-bit

Firefox, Quicktime 7.3

by Bruinut on Mar 3, 2008 11:09 AM PST up reply actions

If you haven't seen my other post...

The embedded images are just that: still images. I didn't link them to videos.

previously known as Grok451

by Telemachus on Mar 3, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions

Ah

by bruin8uclap on Mar 3, 2008 5:23 PM PST up reply actions

Packer

Kevin Love is hot, Josh Shipp knows that he is just a bit off. Its called good team basketball. I don't think you can call it being tentative if the defense is allowing you to throw it into your big man who time after time will A) get the layup, B) get fouled or C) get the layup and get fouled. Its all irrelevant anyways, cuz Howland would never throw his players under the bus (as we have seen other coaches in the Pac-10 do).

by bruin8uclap on Mar 3, 2008 5:19 AM PST reply actions

There's only one ball

Those that want Shipp to "find his offense" have to realize that he does so yesterday at the expense of Love's touches, who was doing great things every time they fed him. It is downright foolish in my estimation to have Shipp force the issue when we had such a sure thing going on inside. Pound it inside until Arizona proves they can stop it, and they couldn't. Sure glad some of these fake coaches out on the internet aren't in charge of our team.

by Tydides on Mar 3, 2008 9:04 AM PST up reply actions