2009--10-ucla-basketball-season Stories - Bruins Nation
UCLA Basketball: The Anderson Analogy
As I read the so-called experts pontificating about the UCLA basketball program it no longer shocks me how clueless they are in trying to analyze recent history. Or how they miss the point on the future. But this one from a few weeks back drove me crazy on multiple levels (emphasis mine): Jones...
Danger Signs: UCLA's Problems Under Ben Howland Run Deep
By BruinBlue A good deal deeper than Nikola Dragovic, who is a terrible player, but who will mercifully be gone soon. Deeper than James Keefe, who tries, but who inexplicably got worse in four years. Deeper than Malcolm Lee, who has flashes of talent, but who spends every day thinking of how to...
[UPDATE] UCLA Guard Malcolm Lee Appears To Blast Ben Howland On Twitter
UPDATE (N): The tweet below has now been deleted. No explanation yet. Also I would note the overwhelming majority of his previous tweets were all about basketball. This was posted on Malcolm Lee's twitter just 12 hours ago: Needless to say this raises a lot of questions about the UCLA basketball...
Howland Needs To Find His Team (The One That Plays "Ben Ball") Again
Let's relieve these sequences again: Those moments are imprinted in our memory banks for rest of our lives. Those were the moments that symbolized the essence of a Howland coached basketball team. A team the foundation of which would be based on defense, passion, intensity and most importantly...
Going Through The Motions
The day after another humiliating and dispiriting loss, this is what is bothering me the most about our basketball program. There is no passion and intensity in Howland's basketball program: Two days ago, Arizona was held to 30% shooting by USC (who from what I saw, played man-to-man defense.)...
Coach: "Only You Know If You Succeed"
The following are excerpts from Wooden On Leadership, a present I picked up for X-mas. I was reading it yesterday while flying home from snow covered DC. For some reason the following grafs from Coach about his team from 50 years ago (pp. 11-13) really struck me and wanted to share it with rest of...
Shaking Up The Core: Thoughts On Changing Up UCLA Basketball's Starting Lineup/Rotation
So here I go. I have seen 4 regular season games this year. 5 if I count the second exhibition game against Humboldt State, which I saw via the pathetic online feed from the official site. Based on what I have seen so far here is the starting lineup that seems to make sense: I think for the short...
Ben Ball Roundup: 2009 Pac-10 Media Day Notes
Lets pile on some more Ben Ball notes to add to the fanpost bruinponcho put up earlier today. Poncho posted some injury updates (all good news) and info on the first ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll of the season. Bruins are ranked number 29 which I don't think is too far off. If I were to rank us in a...
More Thoughts (And Questions) On The Upcoming Ben Ball Season
Let's continue with the story lines on the Ben Ball warriors coming out of Media Day. One thing I am already liking about this upcoming season is the absence of incessant chatter from the local (and national media) driving the narrative that UCLA basketball season is a bust if there is no Pac-10...
Ben Ball Roundup: Video Tribute To Coach And More Notes From UCLA Media Day
Let's start with a little video from Coach Howland, his coaches, and our Ben Ball warriors: Men's Basketball Team's Birthday Tribute to Coach John Wooden (via UCLA) That should get everyone going. Right? Well Jon Gold has more fun bites from some of our Ben Ball warriors. I think we...
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