hard for me to understand how that happened

UCLA basketball loses at Arizona State in triple overtime - Los Angeles Times


https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-02-05/no-3-ucla-falls-at-arizona-state-in-triple-overtime-for-second-loss-in-a-row

Wouldn't want to be a bruin player in the locker room after that one. Cronin not pulling any punches in that interview calling out specific players

The Bruins nearly beat themselves at the end of the first overtime. Inbounding the ball from three-quarters court with 1.4 seconds left, Jaquez hurled a pass that sailed over Myles Johnson out of bounds along the far baseline.

"No excuse for it," Cronin said. "We have a listening problem. He was told not to throw a lob, not to throw it long, to throw a line drive right to Myles and I wanted the guy to try to reach in on Myles and foul him, so right now we're really struggling to execute the game plan."

bearister said:

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UCLA basketball loses at Arizona State in triple overtime - Los Angeles Times


https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-02-05/no-3-ucla-falls-at-arizona-state-in-triple-overtime-for-second-loss-in-a-row

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HoopDreams said:

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Wouldn't want to be a bruin player in the locker room after that one. Cronin not pulling any punches in that interview calling out specific players

The Bruins nearly beat themselves at the end of the first overtime. Inbounding the ball from three-quarters court with 1.4 seconds left, Jaquez hurled a pass that sailed over Myles Johnson out of bounds along the far baseline.

"No excuse for it," Cronin said. "We have a listening problem. He was told not to throw a lob, not to throw it long, to throw a line drive right to Myles and I wanted the guy to try to reach in on Myles and foul him, so right now we're really struggling to execute the game plan."

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Sounds like all is not hugs and kisses at UCLA right now.

The players never got the Coach Wooden 1 hour introductory lesson on how to properly put on socks before a game.

Golden One said:

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HoopDreams said:

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Wouldn't want to be a bruin player in the locker room after that one. Cronin not pulling any punches in that interview calling out specific players

The Bruins nearly beat themselves at the end of the first overtime. Inbounding the ball from three-quarters court with 1.4 seconds left, Jaquez hurled a pass that sailed over Myles Johnson out of bounds along the far baseline.

"No excuse for it," Cronin said. "We have a listening problem. He was told not to throw a lob, not to throw it long, to throw a line drive right to Myles and I wanted the guy to try to reach in on Myles and foul him, so right now we're really struggling to execute the game plan."

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Sounds like all is not hugs and kisses at UCLA right now.

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Tough loss, but Cronin may have compounded it and could lose the team at this point. "Listening problem"? It will be interesting to see how the team responds.

Why are we never capable of these unexpected wins? Is the talent level really that much worse than asu?

calumnus said:

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Golden One said:

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HoopDreams said:

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Wouldn't want to be a bruin player in the locker room after that one. Cronin not pulling any punches in that interview calling out specific players

The Bruins nearly beat themselves at the end of the first overtime. Inbounding the ball from three-quarters court with 1.4 seconds left, Jaquez hurled a pass that sailed over Myles Johnson out of bounds along the far baseline.

"No excuse for it," Cronin said. "We have a listening problem. He was told not to throw a lob, not to throw it long, to throw a line drive right to Myles and I wanted the guy to try to reach in on Myles and foul him, so right now we're really struggling to execute the game plan."

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Sounds like all is not hugs and kisses at UCLA right now.

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Tough loss, but Cronin may have compounded it and could lose the team at this point. "Listening problem"? It will be interesting to see how the team responds.

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Especially talking about Jaquez who is normally as fundamental as you can get.

fat_slice said:

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Why are we never capable of these unexpected wins? Is the talent level really that much worse than asu?

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Yes. Our talent is significantly lower than ASU. When we wiped the floor with them, they were very disorganized and inconsistent with lots of new pieces, while Cal was playing with much more experience and a group that had been playing together for years. It was our ceiling and ASUs floor. At the time, ASU could only get better as all their new pieces started playing better as a team.

BeachedBear said:

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fat_slice said:

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Why are we never capable of these unexpected wins? Is the talent level really that much worse than asu?

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Yes. Our talent is significantly lower than ASU. When we wiped the floor with them, they were very disorganized and inconsistent with lots of new pieces, while Cal was playing with much more experience and a group that had been playing together for years. It was our ceiling and ASUs floor. At the time, ASU could only get better as all their new pieces started playing better as a team.

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That's pretty much it. And perhaps that game actually was this much-talked about ceiling for Fox. We met it on that day. I think he's served his purpose, got us off the floor, but it's time to get a higher ceiling.

BeachedBear said:

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fat_slice said:

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Why are we never capable of these unexpected wins? Is the talent level really that much worse than asu?

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Yes. Our talent is significantly lower than ASU. When we wiped the floor with them, they were very disorganized and inconsistent with lots of new pieces, while Cal was playing with much more experience and a group that had been playing together for years. It was our ceiling and ASUs floor. At the time, ASU could only get better as all their new pieces started playing better as a team.

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ASU has 5 players that were in the Top 100 as recruits. We have Zero (for the first time in the 40 years I've been following Cal basketball).

I also think ASU benefited from UCLA playing and losing to Arizona a day a half earlier.

Cal beat ASU at home. Cal lost to UCLA at home and on the road. ASU beat UCLA in Tempe but lost to UCLA in LA. Cal has yet to play ASU in Tempe. I don't think the above is a strange result at all if Cal<ASU<UCLA. If we beat ASU in Tempe, then we can say it is a anomaly.

calumnus said:

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BeachedBear said:

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fat_slice said:

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Why are we never capable of these unexpected wins? Is the talent level really that much worse than asu?

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Yes. Our talent is significantly lower than ASU. When we wiped the floor with them, they were very disorganized and inconsistent with lots of new pieces, while Cal was playing with much more experience and a group that had been playing together for years. It was our ceiling and ASUs floor. At the time, ASU could only get better as all their new pieces started playing better as a team.

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ASU has 5 players that were in the Top 100 as recruits. We have Zero (for the first time in the 40 years I've been following Cal basketball).

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I think they also have a team half full with transfers

I think we need at least two transfers next year to compete

HoopDreams said:

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calumnus said:

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BeachedBear said:

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fat_slice said:

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Why are we never capable of these unexpected wins? Is the talent level really that much worse than asu?

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Yes. Our talent is significantly lower than ASU. When we wiped the floor with them, they were very disorganized and inconsistent with lots of new pieces, while Cal was playing with much more experience and a group that had been playing together for years. It was our ceiling and ASUs floor. At the time, ASU could only get better as all their new pieces started playing better as a team.

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ASU has 5 players that were in the Top 100 as recruits. We have Zero (for the first time in the 40 years I've been following Cal basketball).

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I think they also have a team half full with transfers

I think we need at least two transfers next year to compete

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Unless somebody transfers out, we don't have any scholarships to give.

ucla having trouble with stanford again

amazing because they are getting good shots but just missing them, including a few bunnies

stanford was leading before the half, and now it's an 8 point lead due to a 4 point play that UCLA just had

cody riley has 0 points and 2 rebounds with 15 minutes in second half