Replacing Ben: Round Up the Usual Coaching Suspects
by uclahy on Dec 30, 2011 12:27 AM PST
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The CBH record has the same scratches every year now.
Only the names change. Powell is Moser or Stanback. Nelson is Gordon. The Wear twins are Nikola doubled. Josh Smith is a new wrinkle, and a bad one, an enigma with at best a lackadaisical attitude. There is no offense, rhythm or flow. We have no real PG but a PG who thinks he's Kobe and plays for the pro foul when he repeatedly over penetrates.
The "team" plays unwatchable basketball. I can only stand it for about five minutes. Then i have to watch something else because the play is as bad or worse than the worst of the Lavin era.
The four letters are a joke now. We can't even make free throws. We lose to an average Stanford team that UCLA should crush by 30 points. But, hey, our great Coach loves winning in the 60s even when he has the horses. So losing by one point short of 60 is a good sign, right? We might have won if we had a timeout saved for crunch time. Doh! I forgot, the brilliant tactician does not believe in that and never has. See metaphor of scratches above.
I used to hate CBH's style but at least thought he was a good coach. Now he has proven he's a one trick pony and just a bad fricking coach. We'll be lucky to make it to the NIT.
In a real conference we would not win a game. Come to think of it, we might not in this one. Six wins would be big. A twelve win season? Say it ain't so.
Round up the usual coaching candidates. Guererror will be bumbling it again at the end of this season.
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We should be happy we were not blown out
Let’s face it. The level of basketball in UCLA has fallen greatly. We are not a basketball powerhouse any longer. We used to compete with the likes of Duke/NC/ Kentucky. Now people are just happy to compete with an average team in a sub-par conference. Thanks to DG this is becoming an acceptable performance in UCLA basketball. I bet that a lot of people reading your post and Nestor’s will say that you are too negative and point to the hard fight the team put out last night and that it’s good that we lost only by a point.
This is a sad sad time in UCLA athletics. Screw DG and his minions.
Separating "Style" from Results
There were those who criticized CBH the years when his teams went to the Final Four because they did not like his style of play. The “entertain me, I don’t like hard nosed D, I want showtime” criticisms rang hollow on me. CBH’s style, when played by a team that bought in and played to its best, was a thing of beauty.
The problem now is that we don’t play that “style” well. We don’t play any style well. Our players don’t buy in — and I’m not sure what they’re being asked to buy.
We have talked, to death, the factors that explain why we are where we are today. Recruiting by reputation not skill set for the “style”, player development, and the refusal to change both the line up and the system have been written about, here, for the last few years.
I suspect that no matter what happens this year, CBH will get one more — the hope being that Smith will finally get the message and come back in shape, and the new players will replace most of the current starters. My concern is that CBH will not play the best players but will play the most experienced. If he does, he will be gone at the end of 2012/13.
sjh
I think he might be done if we miss the tourney this year
too much dysfunction for too long would be a red flag even if results were going our way, but when they’re not…
by VeniceBruin on Dec 30, 2011 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
Hard to predict what DG will do
if things go wrong.
Dump Howland to take the heat off of himself?
Of course, that leads to another DG hire. Terrible choice.
We really need to dump DG, now.
I also sense that there is far more respect for and support of Howland than CRN (whether rightfully so or not). I do not read other places. Is CBH on the hot seat in the other Bruin blogs?
sjh
by Class of 66 on Dec 30, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
I agree
This is another season down the drain. Our football and basketball teams are now irrelevant, and chianti dan (no longer going to use caps for a guy who doesn’t deserve them) doesn’t care. Why hasn’t the bumbling idiot done anything? I suggest that the answer is that he has had no pressure put on him to do anything, and that’s because block (no caps there either) doesn’t give two %$&#s about UCLA athletics.
It is more important than ever to replace chianti dan, and the only way I can see that happening is to catch block’s attention with a revenue shortfall that will tell him that something’s wrong. I suggest that every man, woman and child who puts one kopek into UCLA’s coffers is voting to keep chianti dan and the status quo. To those people, I say that YOU are the problem, and have forfeited your right to moan at the sorry state of UCLA athletics.
If he misses the tournament again
He has to be let go regardless of the 3 Final Four appearances. Missing the tournament twice in 3 years? Not even blockhead and danny can justify keeping him if that scenario occurs. Just as bad is him sneaking into the tournament and keeping his job but underachieve again… like his predecessor did year after year like the cockroach he was.
Moral victories are for losers
My 1st and 2nd years at UCLA we were expected to dominate the Pac-10 and make deep runs in the tournament…and we did. Its startling to see how lower expectations and excuses can lead to an acceptance of mediocrity. A part of me still hopes that Smith will get his act together and next year’s class + new Pauley + an in-shape Joshua Smith will lead to something special (and no, I am not delusional and did not think Neuheisel would win 10 wins this year but a sliver of hope is all we have left to hold out for these days).
Dump Dan!
by bruinclassof10 on Dec 30, 2011 10:14 AM PST reply actions
DG has to go before we make a new BB hire.
In part because he might pick Lavin for a second go. Chianti Dan is that incompetent.
and he'll hire a consulting firm to help pick names
and after that he’ll settle for Lavin and tell us that Lavin is a Bruin who knows the culture and is a winner.
Dump Dan!
by bruinclassof10 on Jan 1, 2012 6:40 PM PST up reply actions
That's what we said about replacing CRN
sad thing is the Donut just might replace CBH…
…but then again he’ll wait so long to fire Howland that he might be fired before that happens
"Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time"
~ John Wooden
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