TH on "Ball is Life." The kid makes everything look effortless. However, before everyone gets their hope a little too high, remember not to get too fired up over high school highlights. After all not everyone is going to make an instant impact ala KL. GO BRUINS.
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Aaron Afflalo & Kevin Love both cost
The bruins National Championships.
If either one stays 1 more year we would be champs.
I still love them both , but its just a fact.
Hopefully Jrue doesnt add to that list.
by dodgers2009 on Mar 23, 2009 6:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
No, it's not a fact
An opinion on your part, a projection, a guess.
In any case, it’s wrong of you to blame them for not winning the national championship, as if that’s all there was to it.
You remind me of the ingrate who rewarded Coach with a “This makes up for last year,” comment after Coach dared to skip a year in hanging up banners.
by Bruinut on Mar 23, 2009 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
u r wayyyy too sensitive.
get a grip.
You wrote “An opinion on your part, a projection, a guess.”
No sh*t its my opinion. Wow your a genious.
Im not an ingrate btw. I stated my “OPINION”, i think we would have cut the nets down.
Its a FACT that we needed those players to be ABLE to cut the nets down.
UCLA needed a post presence this year.(KLOVE)
UCLA needed perimeter scoring last year.(AA)
by dodgers2009 on Mar 23, 2009 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
hmm
If either one stays 1 more year we would be champs.
I still love them both , but its just a fact.
does not equal
i think we would have cut the nets down.
by SuperBruinMan on Mar 23, 2009 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow your a genious.
I have nothing to add to this.
by Bruinut on Mar 24, 2009 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I still blame Stan Love for not winning two years ago
Had he and the missus conceived Kevin a few months earlier, he would have been eligible to play in the second Final Four matchup against Florida. With KLove, we win that game.
by bruinhoo on Mar 24, 2009 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This brings up a thought
I wonder if that bozo ingrate who said that to Coach Wooden ever identified himself and/or apologized (with a letter). There will always be turkeys in this world who have no idea what it means to be a success (and its not the number of championships).
by Dienekes on Mar 24, 2009 5:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And if...
Memphis returned Rose and cast and they run the tables this year…
And if Florida’s players returned one more year maybe they make it 3 in a row…
And maybe Lebron plays 4 years in college and faces up against Carmelo or Dwight Howard led teams (Lebron might’ve put up 25/5/5 as a freshman) every year in the final 4 and we get blown out in 05-06 and 06-07 before we even get close….
It doesn’t mattered if these guys were forced to play 4 years and gave us championship caliber teams – so would every other team in the NCAA that lost players, and could have recruited far better players even
by blinkshot on Mar 23, 2009 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You dont even realize
Your making my point.
You need players to stay.
Florida’s players did come back. Memphis fans can say the same thing i just said about Rose.
sometimes i wonder wtf you guys are thinking when you write a post????
by dodgers2009 on Mar 23, 2009 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dodgers, I think it's an interpretation thing
Using the word “cost” gives the impression of blaming them or faulting them for leaving.
We’d all agree that those guys staying an extra year (same goes for RW and LRMAM to shore up the D this year) would definitely have improved our chances for a title.
But I’m not blaming any of them for us coming up short of a title. That’s the nature of college sports and every competitive school has to live with that. I’m glad they played for us when they did. I wish they’d stayed longer. I understand their decision to move on.
It’s not their fault that we didn’t win a title – they didn’t cost us anything. (but Lavin did)
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
by gbruin on Mar 23, 2009 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
BTW Dodger
if you’re one of those people who thinks we are going to win a championship next year with or without Jrue, then we are probably going to be hearing similar garbage from you this time next year.
No college team benefits when a player leaves or graduates, but opportunities are created as a result. Do you think Westbrook would have gotten the playing time necessary to develop into a top draft pick if Afflalo stayed? Don’t you think that Drew Gordon will develop faster and give us more productive years as a result of Love (who we all knew would not give us 4 years where as DG might) leaving?
A successful college program does more than put together a star group of guys for one or two years (a la Florida). It creates an environment where when one star leaves, another emerges. That is what we have here at UCLA. Eventually, all the pieces will fall into place and we will hang another banner. And then the process will start all over again. That is what makes college championships so elusive and so special.
And please don’t tell me that you AREN’T trying to blame a college kid that chose to do what was best for him and not the program (Pete Carroll anyone?), because to simply say that teams are better off if players stay without assigning blame is utterly meaningless and a waste of everyone’s time
by Sideout11 on Mar 24, 2009 2:19 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
you dont get it
i’m not “blaming”
im saying you need players to stay.
you cant win without players who stay
ala DC,JS,President AA,LoMata,MRol but none of these players are
the Elite NBA type Prospects that you must convince to stay 1 more year to win the big prize.
I dont like Pete Carroll but he understands that if you want to win the title you need great players to stay longer than normal.
he’s a total douche btw
by dodgers2009 on Mar 24, 2009 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dude
your argument would be a lot easier to swallow if you actually spelled right and used punctuation. You may think it doesn’t matter because this is the internet…but when you write like that, it’s annoying.
As for your point…well DUH.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
by tasser10 on Mar 24, 2009 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
All of this HS Kids Look Great Until
they play against kids who were HS all-stars a couple of years ago and have both gained experience and weight.
TH will be a great Bruin but let’s not expect too much next year. He may look “big” against his current competition but his future competition will be built like Pitt and Nova.
One thing we are learning is that it takes some time in the weight room to play at the physical level demanded by our defensive scheme.
All that said, he looks like a great kid.
sjh
by Class of 66 on Mar 23, 2009 7:39 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I dont know what it is
But hearing the acronym TH keeps keeps reminding me of Tyler Hansbrough
Ugh
by blinkshot on Mar 23, 2009 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He can get in there (weight room) with Malcolm
by baybruin415 on Mar 23, 2009 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eh
I’d rather match him up with a bigger guy. Gains are made when you get tired of having to take weights on and off the barbell ;P
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
by bruin8uclap on Mar 24, 2009 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If JH goes pro...
put this kid at the point. He has great ball-handling skills.
Don’t worry, I’m only kidding. but seriously he’s going to be a great wing player.
by BruinsRUs on Mar 23, 2009 8:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Looks long and athletic
Watching him dunk over a row of his teammates…yeah, I know that’s just for show, but it’ll be nice having those sort of physical skills to begin work with.
And I understand not getting hopes too high on a freshman. It took me 2-3 years at UCLA before I was consistently the life of the party – ha!
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
by gbruin on Mar 23, 2009 9:50 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Maybe if you had hit the weight room
after high school, it would have taken only 1-2 years. Or, were freshmen ineligible for LOTP then?
by Bruinut on Mar 24, 2009 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Been a long time
since we had a wing player with this much athleticism. Last time was probably Barnes or even Charlie O. Love the length and has good handles for his size but needs to pack on some weight.
by BlueReign on Mar 23, 2009 11:54 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Watching that video, I immediately thought of Barnes as well.
A long, athletic wing player that seems to be able to do it all – attack the rim, play defense, pass the ball, and perhaps even shoot it (which is something Barnes didn’t really pick up until being dropped from a few NBA teams). Hopefully he will stick around long enough to add some strength to that frame.
by cabz on Mar 24, 2009 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually
I think he picked it up his senior season after a summer practicing with Jason Kapono’s shooting coach. He was a pretty deft 3-point shooter his last season.
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
by bruin8uclap on Mar 24, 2009 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is my recollection, as well.
by snorkeldorf on Mar 24, 2009 7:17 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Perhaps he was as a senior.
In the NBA, however, he was dropped from multiple teams because he was unable to hit an open shot. During his first 3 seasons he saw his minutes decline each year while he shot ~20% from the 3-point range – not good. He was almost out of the league completely before the 2006 season and articles started appearing in the local paper here in Sacramento about how hard he was working on his shot (he’s from Sacramento and had played for the Kings). He subsequently signed with Golden State just before the start of the season based in large part on his newly developed shooting range and has gone on to shoot ~34% from 3-point range since.
I didn’t watch a lot of Barnes during his senior year, to be honest, but if he had a shot his senior year it didn’t follow him to the NBA.
by cabz on Mar 24, 2009 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I should add that he was a big fan favorite here in Sacramento, for obvious reasons.
Kings fans were sad to see him included to make the salaries work in the Chris Webber trade. It just made it worse that he developed a jumpshot (or found it again) and the Kings failed to give him as much as a tryout before the 2006 season.
by cabz on Mar 24, 2009 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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