Center Court: UCLA Basketball (v. Stanford) Open Thread
by Nestor on Feb 4, 2010 7:00 PM PST
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Ladies and gents, here we go. Ben Howland and his 10-11 (5-4) basketball team is going to tip off against Stanford Cardinal (10-11, 4-5) in about half an hour to remind a football drunk Bruin Nation, that there is still a basketball season going on in Howlandwood. As we discussed during the game day thread this am, despite the matchup between two teams with pretty pathetic records (Stanford is actually 0-8 on the road), the game is actually an important one for the Bruins because we need to stay alive in the Pac-10 race. Even outside observers are taking note that somehow the Bruins are "still alive" in our joke conference in this sorry season.
Still it could be exciting. insomniaclounge informs us AA is going to be in the house. I sure hope the current batch of Bruins don't embarrass themselves in front of him and make an earnest effort to play with the same kind of willpower and effort for the entire 40 minutes. The formula for a Bruin win tonight is pretty simple. Like a broken record we keep repeating the same key factors for this year's team before every game: 40 minutes of hard fought focused defense, patience on the offensive side, make our FTs, and set up each other with easy shots as much as possible (without forcing threes from you know who). No idea what we are in store for tonight.
The tipoff is officially scheduled for 7:37 pm PST on Prime Ticket. Bill Macdonald, a Trogan is going to do play-by-play with the insufferable Dan Belluomini. Thankfully those clowns will be balanced out by Don MacLean and Sean Farnham (who was as surprised at Shirley's announcement as he was when he found out CHP was starting him over Matt Barnes as his "lucky charm"). You can read up on all of our musings leading up to this game here. If you want to follow the game online you can do so via our official site. As always, we will be here in the game threads with our rapid fire takes and commentary.
So let's get this party started. Fire away.
GO BRUINS.
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There are two reasons why will win tonight.
1. We are at home and Stanford is 0-8 on the road. Stanford will not win a close game at our house and they are not good enough to blow us out. The SPTRs always help the home team as well.
2. ML has learned to play under control. In the game at Stanford, ML had seven TOs, since then his highest is 4 once. We will not TO the ball as much tonight and will calmly run the offense. (IMO too calmly as his offense has suffered but hopefully he will learn a happy medium.)
Lady Bruins are underway in Palo Alto
Stanford has taken an 11-2 lead after 4 1/2 minutes. Gametracker here.
formerly bruinhoo
Another try
<a href="http://javascript:window.open(http://www.uclabruins.com/gametracker/launch/?event=804219&school=ucla&sport=wbaskbl&‘,’GameTrackerwbaskbl>here.
formerly bruinhoo
Great call...
I was just going to suggest Bruin fans go to the official sight and listen to these lady warriors take on the trees. 7-16 trees…. for now. OK 10-16 now.
GO COLTS!!!!!
I had sort of forgotten we had a basketball game.
Please forgive me, Coach.
I heard he showed up to the kids house in a van...
and promised he’d give him some candy if he got inside.
GO COLTS!!!!!
at pauley we have an attendance problem
Not quite as bad as the holidays but few are here
Maybe stuck in traffic
Hoping for a CRN appearance
by Bruin Dad and Grad on Feb 4, 2010 7:29 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Anyone...
…know somewhere i could stream the men’s game?
No TV in Tampa
We’re getting the Standard at Washington or vice versa. I’ll be depending on you folks.
Let me urge you to leave the sound off. I suppose I should invent an acronym and ask that it be included in the Bruin Lexicon. How about Don’t Open Up Controls Heralding Egocentric Bad Announcer Guys?
I'll bet there are still a few complaints.
And no matter how good the color man is, the alleged play by play guy can still manage to hose things up.
I find that if I leave the sound on at all, even for a little while, when I hear something extraordinarly stupid (our own Troy Aikman has a gem or two, like “Well, Steve, the offense really should try to move the ball down the field” and things like that), I lose track of everything and try to quantify just how stupid the saying is.
Ah, well, different strokes, I guess.
JK's first move was very good, a rebound and then an airball
we will go inside to great success when RN comes in
sjh
ND
Forgetting about the guy shooting the 3.
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
Oh my
Roll was so shocked he made it past the defender he missed the layup.
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
That sort of post helps
It would be better if the score were the other way, of course
J. Dixon 5 of 8 with 11 points
Patroclus beat me with the score. Haha. Fouls are rather one sided with 13 called on the Lady Bruins and only 5 on the home Cardinal. We are 4-8 from FT and they are 16-19. Incredible.
If you want ND out so bad
probably better going MR to 3 and MAH to 2.
gah
I really don’t like seeing Keefe and JA on the court at the same time. 3-on-5 offensive basketball (notwithstanding that layup)
formerly bruinhoo
AA in the house
Students did a call out!
by Bruin Dad and Grad on Feb 4, 2010 8:02 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Why Starting Keefe
I don’t know what is the reason coach start Keefe?Don’t we see enough of him in four years?He is not a good rebounder, not a good shooter, and he made the most stupid fouls.
RN has 2 fouls
He can’t play 40.. He is averaging almost 4 fouls a game recently.
He is not looking to shoot
He is focusing on point and not making TOs.
Excep for Honeycutt, Nelson and may be Roll
This is a hard team to like. Playing like bunch lazy, uninspired clowns.
We are getting 3s from Roll
But we are counting on it and it’s not good news. This team is playing ZERO energy.
espn says bl played and got one foul
did he, or was that a foul on RN — and that would explain why we didn’t see him at the end of the game
sjh
I thought RN had 2 fouls
it would make sense the way he was played
can't get here soon enough
But then we will remember him next year when Lane looks inexperienced wondering why Howland wasted all those mins on that worthless loser in this joke season.
anybody but RAGO OR KEEFE
wouldn’t it be worth it to at least throw in Bobo for a few minutes. He can’t be as bad as Rago or Keefe.
playing bobo and rn puts rn in his correct position
AND we are getting beat on the boards by a smaller team
rn, th and bobo will rebound
Can bobo give up more points than drago? I don’t think so
sjh
I am not a JA fan
but he did make a couple nice passes (2 assists) and made a layup. MAH would not go low like that.
Well there is no incentive for our team to work hard in practice
when they know Howland is going to waste his minutes on usual suspects. Why bother pushing it?
"the pac 10 is loaded with talent?"
did they just say that?
This is a pathetic year for the pac 10
sjh
Now Steve - no bad mouthing the announcers
That’s the rule if you leave the sound on. Watching on justintv, I have no problem at all with the announcers. (Watching, not listening.)
Honeycutt and Nelson are flourishing
because Howland had no choice but to give them minutes. Especially with Nelson. He had to play them even when they made mistakes. Imagine if Howland had given the same amount of leeaway to kids like Lane and Moser.
Why should a talented freshman come to Westwood when they can see Howland not really giving freshmen a fair shot unless he is absolutely desperate?
When has BL played well?
Against Delaware state he got schooled by a 6’3" guy. He has not shown he is ready and putting him out there would be giving up on 500 and any post season. I see an an argument for that but I think it more important we go to a Tourney.
We are not going to the tourney
And BL has had his good moments (look through our writeups). He never got a fair shot.
Not the Tourney a tourney
NIT. BL has also had bad moments.
He hasn't been given a chance
And has been taken out after every “bad moment” meanwhile Rago gets to f**k it all up night after night often posession by possession. Stop defending this pathetic loser. It’s embarrassing.
Is that Rago or Ragu?
*I* ran over George Tirebiter.
Nice way to capitalize
on that turnover
*I* ran over George Tirebiter.
Chance to tie
*I* ran over George Tirebiter.
While I disagree on KD comparsions
I agree with this. Again we have better athletes than this team and should push off TOs.
By the way Nestor, CBH would be a better football coach than KD as well.
exactly right donny mac
we are supposed to get transition scoring from to’s and rb’s
on the rare occasions when we get them we don’t push
and it isn’t cby — he’s yelling push push
sjh
D Mac now calling out Bruins for not running off the TO
that IS how it’s supposed to work – transition baskets from good D, right?
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
I don't think we have the skilled players for that.
They have looked bad on almost every fast break they have had.
Broadcast
I’m watching the game here In the bay area. Anyone else having an audio problem with the TV broadcast? I can only hear the student section and band but no broadcasters!
It’s pretty cool feels like I’m in the den!
by UclaCO2007 on Feb 4, 2010 8:42 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Ahh Ackerman Union
*I* ran over George Tirebiter.
Tie score
they answer the 3
*I* ran over George Tirebiter.
Great pass by R
that will be a huge complement if he develops that
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
in other notes...
Cal is absolutely imploding. Now down 42-30 after once leading 30-18… yuck.
by DoubleTroubleBruin on Feb 4, 2010 8:46 PM PST reply actions
Dylan Thomas
I love that poem
*I* ran over George Tirebiter.
by Bruins102NCAA on Feb 4, 2010 8:48 PM PST up reply actions
ml 2-9 from the field -- 0-2 on 3's
put th on the point and bring in lane, bobo, moser hamid, someone else?
sjh
JA playing well tonight
I think it helps that Stanford is a two person team but nevertheless he is contributing tonight.
I DON'T LIKE HIM!
Okay! I don’t like Green Mr. Dan. I HATE JEREMY GREEN.
Oh UCLA you sweet bitch, you've BRUINed me for anything else.
They are passing us again
Thanks to misevaluations by Howland’s staff and roster mismanagement by our head coach.
who do you think
should be guarding him? He blew by RN and TH last time up the court.
Serious question.
Why doesn't Rago just take time off from D
and just hang out on offense. He needs to stop pretending.
"Same side Rago comes out and defends"
Wow. Used Rago and defends in the same sentence
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
Will someone please
Post a picture of the barn cat?!
And will one of our players please get in Fields’s face?
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
by tasser10 on Feb 4, 2010 8:57 PM PST via mobile reply actions