As Expected Bruins Implode & Embarrass The Four Letters Against Stanford

will do it every time

cheaty articles. Like seeing that Prater is not enrolling now and one of their JC guys said he is decommitting. Another recruit said

“Well, It’s tough because he had told all of the us that are looking at USC that he was going to stay, so some of us are upset about it,” said Jeffcoat, a five-star DE.

But doesn’t it look like Ed Hochuli has lost his “guns”? I wonder if he was juicing and has since laid off.

0-4.

Avg margin of defeat: 13.5 pts

I actually fell asleep watching this charade. Woke up when it was 53/32 only to see us completely implode in crunch time against a ONE MAN, very average Stanford team.

If this keeps us CBH will have some ‘splainin’ to do. Clearly he knows how to coach, so the question is, why are the players, as weak as they seem, apparently sleep walking instead at least playing fundamentally sound.

I mean 22 turnovers. No excuse.

Let’s find 7 that care, if we can, and just play them.

GO BRUINS.

sorry

You called it

in a bad conference. Period. We play poorly on Wednesday, and get a W. We play poorly today, and get a L. I expect more of the same for the rest of the year.

It really seems like even in our lows Reeves Nelson is the lone bright spot. I really enjoyed his intensity against Kansas, and it seems like he is going to be the one bright spot this season produces.

I have long since accepted the fact that we are going to lose to South Central twice this year and just add to our athletic misery. BUT! It occurred to me, that we are in a good position to win next week. In our roller coaster ride, we have just come off a low, and we play at home. For what it’s worth, I refuse to lose faith until the last buzzer sounds.

Let’s hope our guys pick themselves up and turn a corner this week. Go Bruins.

For this team to move forward TH must contribute regularly on the offensive end. His rebounds are great, but I’m confused as to why he is struggling to add baskets. And he can’t even hit a FT. I honestly think if he has a breakout game, that we will finally see less of Bob. If he could connect at the FT line, I would think he should go to the basket routinely to draw fouls. He has that kind of length and athleticism.

And why would the team play with any sense of urgency when Howland keeps playing guys thinking they will get "hot" from the 3 point line…..

This really does appear to be what the Howland is doing with GD. I don’t get it. It seems a very un-Howland like way of coaching.

we don’t have a point guard… it all starts with the PG and we simply don’t have one. same stuff different game. penetrate and get caught in the air, turnover.. it happens at least five times a game… we can only hope that next year we get bigger and stronger and smarter. We need AA, DC, the prince and other warriors to come and give a speech and make these guys realize its not ok to smile and laugh at the end of a game when your down by ten points about to lose. That pissed me off when I saw RN and bobo on the bench. pfff

If you told us then that we’d split the bay area trip we’d all be happy. Yes we need work, but lighten up folks!

It might have felt good had we split in the Bay Area, but the quality of play by the Bruins, especially in the second half, was a disgrace. We had tons of errant passes, sloppy dribbles, missed defensive assignments, and, as usual, missed FTs. If we had won, the victory would have been fool’s gold. Stanford isn’t that great a team, but considering how incompetent we looked, the Cardinal deserved the victory.

Usually this game brings anticipation or dread in the way great rivalries do, but this time it felt empty. During the past decade or so, the games at Stanford have featured epic battles with players like Jacobsen, the Lopez twins, Knight, Madsen, etc., and our beloved Ben Ball Warriors plus earlier stars. Tonight’s game felt like watching “scabs” take the field during the NFL strike. Our team must get dramatically better or even the victories will feel cheap. When skilled players like MR let balls bounce off their heads, the whole team needs to get its act together.

there were at least a few incremental positives this game that weren’t there the previous few Saturdays. Anderson is still not a Pac-10-calibur starting PG, but has definitely improved a bunch since the State school losses. TH is a monster (statistically, not stylistically) on the boards. Nelson continues to develop and plays with attitude and tenacity for a true freshman. Bobo was not completely retarded out there – and hit nothing but net on those FTs – how many other kids on this team can go 2-2 at the stripe in any fashion? Roll F-ed up a bunch today, but if he were still as one-dimensional as he was the last 3 years, we’d be in much worse shape. He is not – and he’s the closest thing we have to a leader.

These kids are still young and last year’s class is still disappointing. But, I thought we had all accepted this season was a complete – i mean complete – reclamation project – of historical proportions – for better or worse, so right now it’s best to really accept that we will lose most games and that we need to focus on incremental improvements – whether or not we feel we deserve such a miserable fate. We stayed close for 35 minutes on the road – that’s the best you can expect for a while. It’s gut-wrenching and disappointing to live through, but I, for one, think we have the pieces in place (including next year’s recruits) to be near the top of the Pac next season.

In a game where we shot over 50% and won the battle of the boards 25/10, shot 70% from the line (but at least a couple of the misses were on the front end of 1 and 1’s — against a “weaker” team, we turned the ball over 23 times. Inexcusable.

Yet on this team, I see some talent and potential. I always feel we can win a game — if we just play well in all facets of it.

The turnovers? Simple. We don’t have an effective point guard — no surprise to anyone here. I don’t see an easy answer. ML had 7 TO’s and MR 5; understandable in a way — neither should be handling the ball as much as they’ve had to. RN had 4. I think that’s attributable to his lack of strength. Yes, he’s tough, but he’s young and has an immature body. At least once or twice a game he has the ball taken away from him.

There was a time this summer when sc’s BB team seemed to implode and people here were making fun of them.

They are better than expected and we are not.

We should beat them. We have the talent to beat them. All we have to do is play 2 consistent and strong halves.

We had some glimmers of hope in the first half. The rotation with the young guys on the floor, the front line with Bobo at the 5 and RN and BL in, actually played well.

I would have loved to see more of that in the second half. And, I’m curious as to why we didn’t.

If we can eliminate the turnovers, and stay where we are on shooting and the boards, victory will be ours.

sc is a rivalry game. I want it and I’m sure the team wants it. These kids know what the game is about, and I really think they will come to play.

It’s true, the talent is so raw and we really look lost on offense and so rushed that our team throw’s most games away we should be ahead in or at least have a chance to win. Giving up, however is inexcusable, and like many here I have seen this team do that too many times this year. I can understand when your playing in a game and your team is making so many mistakes and you get so frustrated you just go through the motions, like Nestor has said before, that is something that won’t be tolerated here and those players need to sit on the bench if they are not giving their heart and soul when their on the court. Stanford is not a great team, but they have those go to guys on their team, we DO NOT. As Bryan said, this game did not feel special at all and that is very sad compared to games of the past. We need to keep getting better and hope that our guys soak up CBH’s knowledge and system. I BELIEVE!
Go Bruins

The Times have a nice piece on UCLA, Howland gasp:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dwyre10-2010jan10,0,6309634.column