Ben Ball Warriors Cruise To A Convincing Win ...

by Nestor on Jan 2, 2009 9:31 PM PST in Basketball

Well that was a fairly decent start to the Pac-10 season.

Ben Ball warriors came out on fire to start the Pac-10 season blitzing the upstart and inspired Beavers bunch with a 19-4 run out of the gate. Since that hot start the Beavers never made it close as the Bruins put together a dominating 37-16 first half with an air tight and suffocating defense, crisp/patient and aggressive offense:

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens (via ESPN)

The final score was 69-46. Here is the early box score.

JH started off his first conference game of his Ben Ball career on a good note finishing the night with 9 pts, 3 rebounds and 2 assists. However, the stars of the night were DC and MR who led the team with 16 pts each. MR was perfect from the 3 pt line going 4 for 4 while DC was in total command as the team's floor general while playing the role of lead catalyst a number of times on defense leading to fast break points.

Still it wasn't a perfect night despite a great start. I am sure Coach Howland will talk to the team about the second half during which we looked at times unfocused on defense and out of sync on the offensive side. We can't let down on the intensity level to start the second half during rest of the conference season. I will try to write more about this tomorrow.

BTW I think Tracy Murray just gave a shout out to "Ben Ball warriors" on the Bruin post game show. Thanks for reading us TM.

We will have more analysis later and focus on Oregon. Remember our mantra here on BN: one game at a time.

Anyway, the court is all yours. Take it away in this post game thread.

GO BRUINS.

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I liked what I saw

haha I did notice that they referred to the team as the ben ball warriors.

Anyway, Michael Roll proved yet again that he deserves more minutes. Having Josh shipp and michael roll on the court at the same time worked out fine. it looks like the bruins have themselves a dependable bench shooter.

more athletic plays by Holiday and Gordon, and an overall good rebounding game.

I also noticed that Jerime Anderson is gaining more confidence in himself. Although a lot of his shots aren’t fallling, it is only a matter of time before he is a dominant scoring threat.

Yeah, the bruins definitely looked bored towards the end. But it was nice to see the freshmen able to play well with only Roll on the court with them. The name of the game is improvement, and I saw an improved team today.

by bruinbasketball on Jan 2, 2009 11:06 PM PST reply actions

Yep

JA has been really coming on last few games.

by Nestor on Jan 3, 2009 9:12 AM PST up reply actions

Does Bobo look slimmer now?

To me, it looks like all that post practice running is paying off. Also, I thought his technical was truly innocent. I don’t think he was trying to show up the other player with the ball.

by Give me a B... on Jan 3, 2009 11:57 AM PST reply actions