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Is Great Defense the Only Way CBH & UCLA Basketball Can Win ?
As UCLA likely heads back toward .500 with a tough game at Kansas this week it is an easy time to start questioning UCLA Coach Ben Howland and whether UCLA can win again. Bruin Report Online leader Tracy Pierson does just that in an interesting but ultimately flawed analysis of UCLA Coach Ben...
CORE BELIEFS
A few weeks ago, I asked what I thought was the key question holding back our team: "Who is the FIST of the Bruins?" Under CBH, our Bruin Team, like any prizefighter, has always had two FISTS to fight with, never going into any contest with a hand tied behind our back. One on offense (e.g. Love,...
Just A Typical Day For UCLA Basketball
Chris Dufresne from the LAT sums up a Humpday to rememer for Bruin Nation: It was a typical day for UCLA basketball and a really good one for UCLA football. "Great recruiting year for UCLA football!" Howland chimed at the end of his news conference. We will get to the recruiting news later....
"It ALL STARTS with our DEFENSE"
I wrote yesterday about how we wanted our Ben Ball warriors to repeat Thursday. We wanted them to sustain the (defense generated) momentum gained from putting together probably the best all around performance of the season against the Bears. Well they got it done yesterday afternoon. Ben Ball...
Nothing To Lose
So the team in SI.com’s “bubble watch” (again they pegged UCLA as a team that “should be in” and got sensitive and hilariously inconsistent after getting called out on it) pulled out a hard fought win in one of the toughest venues in West Coast, running up their record...
Getting Ready For 08-09 Ben Ball Season: Predictions/Expectations & Concerns
With just 11 days to go till tip off, time for us to go through what has become somewhat of an annual rite of passage here on Bruin Nation. We started this in 2005, and continued it in both 2006 and 2007. Well, I think each of those three seasons turned out pretty good (with lots of fist pounds,...
Ben Ball Roundup: Teaching Defense & Health(y) Notes
In case you missed while being out and about last weekend, Coach Howland held his first practice of the season last Friday from 8 to 11 pm inside a closed Pauley Pavillion. For those who are wondering how the first two practices went, we have some good clips from the local papers today. All of the...
No (Midnight) Yellin', Just (Ben) Ballin' In Westwood
It’s a huge Friday night at ESPN. They are all gearing up for Midnight Madness. It all works out so perfectly for the MTVized sports culture at WWL. Eamonn Brennan at the Dagger, Yahoo.com’s blog gives us a little sampling of some of the circus going on around the country...
Ben Ball Roundup: Start Of the Warrior Season
We have been waiting long enough for this: Photo Credit: Michael Goulding, The OC Register UCLA’s Fab Five – JM, JH, ML, JA & DG – and rest of their veteran team-mates met the local beat writers for UCLA’s annual media day, marking the start of a brand new Ben Ball...
Ben Ball News & Notes
Mark Saxon from the OC Register has an update on Michael Roll, who has been working to recover from a torn plantar fascia in his left foot “Once you get to a certain point where you’re bending your foot, you can just feel a sharp pain,” Roll said. “You don’t want to...
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