UCLA vs. Kentucky: Game Thread

[Joneslab]

I was just about to post this. Briscoe was clearly frustrated and having a bad game. Sit him, let him calm down, and put in Mulder. Briscoe gives essentially nothing from outside and that's what we needed.

Not sure who Mulder guards.

We needed stops.

97 points.

[Catsrock]

I would trade all of our dunkers for their shooters all day.

No need to trade them. Just use the ones we have. And get some stops.

[Blue Heaven]

Mulder was sick.

That explains it. Still. Steve freaking Alford has our number. Never thought it would be that way. Make no mistake though. UCLA is really good.

[Catsrock]

For all the talk about their threes, Welsh and Leaf hurt us as bad as anyone. Also the back-up center who came in for Welsh.

Much stronger in the post than we were on the whole.

Yep. gotta man up down there. Wenyen stopped no one. Bam got his luch eaten on offensive end several times and Hump was ineffective.

[Joneslab]

Our freshmen backcourt scored 44 points between them today.

44.

In a loss.

That's cray.

[Blue Heaven]

Yep. gotta man up down there.

Gotta rebound too. Do we even know how to block out and position for rebounds? But it's hard to do when everyone is already running down court.

[Blue Heaven]

Our freshmen backcourt scored 44 points between them today.

44.

In a loss.

That's cray.

And they still didn't play well. Our front court is what killed us the most.

[thughes]

Gotta rebound too. Do we even know how to block out and position for rebounds? But it's hard to do when everyone is already running down court.

We were out rebounded by 3, 41 to 38.

[justafan]

Will, when you post GBU, put good: no more talk about undefeated nonsense.

defense lost this game....

[Blue Heaven]

We were out rebounded by 3, 41 to 38.

Man it sure seemed more than that.

[Joneslab]

Wenyen stopped no one.

Got exposed a little.

Although he would hit the glass harder than anybody. He has a really hard time handling drivers, though. UCLA's ability to drive us and then kick to the wings was the killer. We spent 90% of that game confused about what was happening on defense. Really they were running very easy actions, they just exposed our help.

The little hand-off play where Ball hit the killer three was simple basketball. We got lost.

Defensively lapses all over the place constantly from pretty much the opening tip.

[thughes]

Man it sure seemed more than that.

Yes it did. I was surprised when I looked up those numbers.

[Joneslab]

Leaf had 17 and 13 for UCLA.

Best, most fundamental player on the court.

[thughes]

Our free throws also hurt us, we were 18-27 for 66.7%. We have been shooting better than that.

They were 17-21 for 81%.

[teamchemistry15]

Not sure who Mulder guards.

We needed stops.

97 points.

The guys on the court were doing such a fantastic job at guarding everyone? I don't think it would've been much worse with him out there for ten or twelve minutes.