Turns out big-shot Leonardo DiCaprio is a UCLA fan, nice. This was at a Lakers game (I believe...

Turns out big-shot Leonardo DiCaprio is a UCLA fan, nice. This was at a Lakers game (I believe yesterday).

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I've seen him in that hat before

Farmar had a personal 9-0 run in the fourth quarter to separate the Lakers from the Magic for good. We need more JFs on our team.

by Tydides on Jan 19, 2010 2:54 PM PST reply actions

Yea...

But it’s hard to imagine that Farmar was only here for two years.

I’d actually take an Arron Afflalo on this team over anyone else any day of the week. We need a leader, somebody who absolutely refuses to lose, will shut down their best perimeter player and will fire up the rest of the team.
On second thought, this current ‘team’ needs any boost they can get. I’d take a Cedric Bozeman over any of the players we have right now.

by longbordr52 on Jan 19, 2010 3:56 PM PST up reply actions

AA remains my favorite player

I feel like his type of leadership is most effective with a team that already has focus. He’s the guy that pushes a good team to be great, leading by example and doing the dirty work. This current team may benefit more from an aggressive (Farmar), but not self destructive (Gordon), personality that can light a fire under these kids asses because the lack of intensity and will that we’re seeing now is staggering.

by Tydides on Jan 19, 2010 4:11 PM PST up reply actions

good points

So maybe Malcolm Lee really can be an AA type player, but simply isn’t playing on any resemblance of a ‘team’? It would be nice to think that (with the exception of maybe Anderson), these guys aren’t vastly overrated athletes, but rather just not working as a team.

by longbordr52 on Jan 19, 2010 4:37 PM PST up reply actions

The JF performance has me thinking...

… that we’ve had to deal with early-exits for YEARS.

JF? Sophomore year, even though we could have used another penetrator/ scorer in the Florida rematch.

AA? Junior year, even though pairing him with KL could have given us all the backcourt muscle and depth we needed to take on the Memphi$ Wildcat$.

RW? Sophomore year, even though he could have teamed with DC to take us past Nova.

LMRAM? Junior year, even though he could have kept Rago on the bench and gotten us to the Elite 8, even without RW next to DC.

KL? Frosh year, and tell me that, running with DC and AA2, he couldn’t have gotten us to the Four with or without LMRAM.

"In this program your passion bucket must be full to play SC." -- CRN, to Dan Patrick, 1/2008

by Meriones on Jan 19, 2010 4:44 PM PST reply actions

What's the word I am looking for here?

Oh yeah … “trend”

by Nestor on Jan 19, 2010 5:10 PM PST up reply actions

Why the trend?

Just wondering…is it because these guys developed so quickly and took the early opportunity to go pro?

Or is there maybe something that made them want to get away, too? Something similar to what ran off weaker backbones like CS and DG and JH much earlier.

It’s just a knee-jerk, and not really well thought out, question. On one hand, we’ve never heard KL or RW or JF or AA say anything critical of the program after they left, so I’ve always assumed that the opportunity to play in the NBA and get paid $c*-like money was the reason for not staying at UCLA. But there was only one DC.

greg in denver - UCLA guy for life

by gbruin on Jan 20, 2010 11:15 AM PST up reply actions

It's a very good question

Roy Williams and Bill Self find a way to hold to their big time players. I doubt DC would have stayed for his senior season if Howland had matched him against someone else rather than Rose, and had either RW or LRMAM or Rose (it might have meant a win in that game and then shining against KU to win the title). If we won that title, DC would be gone no matter how much he loved UCLA.

So yeah it’s a “trend” and it seems very specific to us in recent years.

by Nestor on Jan 20, 2010 2:40 PM PST up reply actions

only one I'm not sure would have produiced a different result

would actually have been Farmar in the Florida rematch. Florida dominated us for a second year, unsurprising given they returned everyone. LMR was probably less of a factor for us than late-season Ryan Hollins the previous year; Josh Shipp was no more effective in the overall gameplan than Ced Bozeman had been the previous year. I think that Florida team would have had our number with or without Farmar. I think all the other players above would have been worth AT LEAST another tourney victory.

by britishbruin on Jan 20, 2010 7:43 AM PST up reply actions