Turning Point: UCLA @ Cal Golden Bears Game Thread

http://www.firstrowsports.tv/watch/100424/1/watch-ucla-vs-california.html

Start the game already. Let’s get this over with.

Like moving.

Maybe there’s hope for us

5-4 UCLA

10-8 UCLA

Oy

13-10

He just threw that out of bounds

Look at this pace. Running back and forth constantly. It’s nice to watch

Terrible sequence.

At the difference between the Wears chasing offensive rebounds and them not chasing defensive rebounds.

playing 2 possession I think of zone that resulted in baskets the rest is lousy m2m 13:57 left in half

we can’t do M2M, too slow

can’t do zone, Allen Crabbe too good

zone again.. crabbe wide open 3 easily broke it down

He seems like a terrific college player but not a pro

That’s when I’d rather have M2M

Fighting for a rebound

too much dribbling anderson off his foot and out of bounds

weak late foul call puts Cal at the line

look at the way they pass the ball to get inside. It’s beautiful. They don’t have anyone with JS’s size, they’re playing wi/out Solomon and they’re getting anything they want inside

Imagine what Monty would have done wit Brendan Lane.

Zeek turns it over

20-17 Cal

Thanks.

But that pass was uncatchable

another turnover agree with marques.. powell made the right cut, but did not look for the pass from smith

still, layup by smith

Rest of team too many TO’s

can’t tell, too fast

break lamb goaltend on his shot and blocking foul

they just destroyed zone for layup

GG

building not once but TWICE. they’re just so sound

So he takes himself out with a stupid foul

HURRRR DURRRRRRRRRRR

and big men now basically relies on its guards. Right? If they don’t shoot well and make the right plays UCLA doesn’t win. Kind of crazy how that happened.

Aka Selfish

and fouled

Nice

I didn’t see any contact

Liked that defensive possession up till FOULING THE JUMPSHOOTER

There are folks who may be TIVOing that game and watchng this one.

don’t know if he can keep it up all game, we’ll see

Howland is truly desperate

let’s assume that Howland does have them practice free throws (actually, that’s a very generous assumption, what ARE they practicing, since it’s certainly not defense)

then missed free throws are a mental issue, from being soft

in terms of sending opponents to the FT line. ANyone have the numbers for this?

Wear with a tipin

the worst offensive player in UCLA history jumphook airball resulted in a lu by gutierrez at the other end.. scrolling back it was anderson’s terrible defense in transition looking for someone else to get back for him that allowed gutierrez behind him.

37-35 Cal

zeke to lamb 3 in transition

but JS is gonna need a respirator during halftime

Given how he’s been shooting, I don’t mind that one

I hope we don’t fall in love with ourselves.. half winding down we are now 5-8 from 3. We can’t really shoot better than that.. 5-6 to start and we are trailing by 2

3 top of key

we fall behind by 5

shortarms a lefty jumphook as usual but gets bailed out with a foul call

good job on the putback before half

Josh Smith

But … DO NOT POST FOOTBALL SCORES HERE … if you want to discuss the football game, go here.

Dear Lord.

great pass smith to David who doesn’t protect the ball and gets stripped.. they drain 3 other end

After those kinds of mistakes.

lamb miss 3.. simple play.. ucla total fail getting back.. zeke does not play team defense and help in transition and they get a 2-on-1 layin

Getting pathetic

Monty is clowning Ben.

That ball didn’t have escape velocity

are you kidding me?

So hard to watch. Totally uninterested in doing anything right basketball-wise.

Crappy pass and a turnover

have his initials been rescinded yet?

Can anyone explain how one would go about scoring a basketball on the defensive end?

once he cools off, we got NOTHING

what is Howland’s logic for that

defense destryed again for dunk

travis nice jump hook .. he is so much smoother than david on those shots right now. Why does he not play more than David?

crabbe 3.. truth is we can’t cover them with any defense

is looking almost as strong as middle tennessee

destroyed zone again for dunk.. smart putting gutierrez at top of key to make the pass

that’s probably it for the Pac12

on these road trips

I’m in Haas and I don’t recall seeing a single D Wear make!

I think are asked to do what they are not comfortable doing. People want to make players tough bangers that are not. From Keefe to Lane to the Wears. They are more comfortable facing the basket. I wonder how Howland would have screwed up Don MacLean? Hey MacLean get off that baseline and stop shooting 15 footers you never miss and get in the land with your back to the basket. What would Ryan Anderson have done if he came to UCLA not Cal? Is it Howland? Is it the players? I certainly am leaning more and more heavily toward a coach fitting a square peg in a round hole.

Yank Smith.. clear the lane for cutters and movement since we are a 3 guard team now. Allow the Wears to catch and shoot 15 footers from the wing players. And keep Smith benched until he loses every lb he needs to lose or transfers out.

this is probably the toughest road tip of the year, but honestly, what’s going to change in the rest of the season

last score update needed I believe

vs. Zona L
vs ASU W
@ USC W but a close one
@OSU L
@ Oregon L
Utah W
Colorado W
@UW L
@ WSU W

How does that even fly? I don’t care if you hate your coach; is losing better?

how can we look ahead and even pretend there is some chance of going to the tourney at this point. All I can say is today this season is a fail. I can only consider the next game for this squad to see if they can play better. This is not a tournament team by any stretch of the imagination. Anything short of winning probably the next 17 games would probably leave them on the wrong side of the bubble. Therefore contemplating what games we might be able to win down the road is moot. I think howland needs to develop the real talent he has on the roster right now. Not doing everything you can to get Powell to his highest level possible by the end of this season is a waste of a year for me watching this crap. Unlike others I do think the Wears used properly have hope. That is to say have hope to be better basketball players than Keefe, Lane and Dragovic. I do think Travis is better at this point and would rather seem him in there.

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