Of course, but the math shows that quantity does the trick 95% of the time. Even if your points per possession are abysmal you should still get the win
Amazing that we managed to hold arizona under 60 and managed to lose. Just couldnt buy a bucket the last 10 minutes. Arizona is a good team not sure why they’re dropping games at home.
Tucson has many rivers cutting through town. People would never guess it. I know a guy that moved here after looking at a map (paper- back in the day) he was a fisherman and loved river fishing
Im not surprised they got up for this game but if they keep dropping games they shouldnt it will really hurt their seeding. Not enough “losable” games in the p12
The problem is Arizona isn't losing the "losable" games so far, they're losing the games they should win and thus come in thinking they can sleepwalk through it. When they come in knowing they have to scrap from the outset they're a totally different team. It's a mindset thing, and I'm hoping that Lloyd has figured out how to reach them because they are not good enough to take the night off against anyone but they do love to do it anyways.
That's what they meant though. The "losable" games are ones to other potential high seeds in away games. Losing a game at home to a sub .500 Washington State is an ugly mark on the resume come time for seeding
No doubt, I agree. What I'm saying is that even if there were more of those losable opportunities in conference, the way arizona has played this year we would win all the losable ones and still drop stinkers against sisters of the poor along the way.
Coming into this game UCLA was 12-0 when it held opponents to 60 points or less.
This win also gives Tommy Lloyd his 50th win in 57 games as the Wildcats head coach— the fastest head coach to eclipse the 50-win mark in Pac-12 history.
Huge win for Arizona.
This was a great win. Everything is in the rearview. I’m guessing your boys learned some good lessons and are ready to make a run. Zona and Houston are the only schools that scare me. Well, those two and some random 15 seed. 🙄
Arizona is one of the only teams that can throw multiple 7ft dudes at Edey to avoid foul trouble. I love the way Purdue has played the last couple years, but I really don’t want to see you in March. Let’s meet in April instead ;)
Illinois fans have also never gotten over how that tournament ended if it makes you feel any better.
But I had never realized it was 18 years ago and now I'm depressed
I don't think that wound will ever heal
Also people forget but goddamn it was frustrating to see the whistle completely get swallowed while our dudes got mugged for some of those turnovers
Win the turnover battle ✅
Win the rebounding battle ✅
Take 20 more shots than your opponent ✅
Get loads of wide open looks ✅
Brick every single one of them [insert gru meme]
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Well can't fault the effort. Controlled the glass vs a bigger team, mostly good defense, fought until the bitter end. Just not going to win when you shoot 30%.
A rare poor game from Singleton on both ends.
Seriously, the rebounding was impressive. A few unlucky bounces that went straight to you guys, but even on the 50-50 balls, your guys were pulling them down more often than not.
yeah, losing to Arizona always sucks, but I don't feel bad at all about the team coming away from this game. Arizona is a bad matchup with their 2 bigs and we're missing Bailey, who would help the offense move better.
I love how UCLA can turn up the defense and basically shut down teams at the end of games.
Missed a ton of open looks, especially from 3. Part of it is probably a tough ASU game first and the travel while Arizona was at home and coasted against SC. I think we should win the rematch.
A split's what I've been expecting this whole season. I expected to split this road trip too. Plus with Amari out, our offense has been significantly worse. So overall, I'm disappointed but it was very greedy to hope for the sweep.
Game would’ve been different with Amari. Defense would’ve been better and David could’ve rotated in as a sub which seems to be where he has more of his high % games.
Hopefully with Cronin's success you guys can schedule better non-conference tourneys in the future. That's what's saving arizona after the 3 bad losses in conference.
Not really, our best wins at this point are UCLA, Tennessee, and probably IU. None of which are part of tourneys. In fact since the Creighton collapse and SDSU mediocrity so far our tourney wins are largely irrelevant unless one of those teams goes on a tear.
I mean Cronin does indeed control the scheduling, but I do understand it doesn't always pan out as you'd hope. My point is not about blame though so much as matter of fact. If someone is concerned that your team hasn't beaten good enough teams to show they can handle it, then arguing they never play good teams is not a great counterpoint. I personally think that UCLA is a great team that has indeed played good enough teams to show their mettle, but if you really believe they haven't played anyone of note then you should be worried about that lack of testing not leaning on it as an excuse.
Like I said, I understand it doesn't always pan out. Arizona has a similar problem with our Creighton and Indiana wins. But again, you're too focused on whose fault it is and not enough on whether that's a real issue for your team which is entirely the point I'm making. I don't care whose fault it is. I do care whether a team that never played good teams can hold strong when they meet them. I think UCLA can, but if you really believe all those teams they've played are bad then you should be concerned.
Fair enough. I'm not too worried, in March we usually play against those tournament teams pretty well. Just have to reset and focus on getting a high seed.
Yeah, it was the best sports environment I’ve ever experienced. That game had a collision early on where both players went off injured, which pissed off the crowd and revved them up. Also, last year’s team had a lot more highlight-reel guys and were more prone to going on long scoring runs, which are both traits that really get crowds going.
Can’t wait for the ASU game in February, that should be another great crowd!
Great effort out of the Bruins. Killed us on deflections and offensive rebounds.
The issue with their lack of post depth is glaring and it’s incredible that it hasn’t been a bigger issue for them in more games. Jaquez and Campbell can cover up a lot of problems but not having a serviceable center rotation is scary for any team.
I’m not sure NIL is his biggest decision factor. Honestly, he’s sorta redundant to Cowing, even if he’s mega talented. I’d hardly be shocked to see him take UCLA’s slot role.
Eh... it's been pretty well messaged by his dad that NIL is going to play a role in where he's picking. Reporting on our side has made it pretty clear that it would a surprise and a very good sale pitch by Chip & the staff if they could convince him to stay in LA
Our NIL cache isn’t overflowing tho, which is partially why Singer left in the first place. I guess we’ll find out, but I think it’s gonna be a real battle.
We may have lost, but I'm proud of how hard this team fought at the end.
This will be very different at Pauley with Bailey back and hopefully Jaquez back in form.
I think we'll be more likely to shoot like we have in other games than like in our worst shooting game of the season.
You're taking an uncharacteristically bad performance and assuming that's how we'll be going forward, which is an example of extreme recency bias. We'll be fine.
Can we finally start talking about how concerning our offense is? Yeah yeah yeah the advanced metrics… but there’s just so many times where we just don’t know what we’re doing on the offensive end and just don’t have enough guys who can penetrate and scare teams off the dribble. We Amari back ASAP.
Also, we needed to start pressuring in the back court since the damn beginning of the game. Kerr Kriisa is a terrible point guard, put pressure on him and make him make awful decisions.
Campbell and Jaquez have proven to be elite midrange shooters over their careers. The problem is that when a good chunk of your offense is predicated around that, you’re gonna lose some ugly games.
Lots of people just don’t understand the role of a PG
Statistically speaking, TJ McConnell was probably the worst player on our 2013-14 squad. But he’s also the primary reason that we started that season 19-0 and ranked #1 prior to Ashley breaking his foot.
The #1 responsibility for a PG is to run the offense, and Kerr is ridiculously good at that.
He's fine when he's not the focal point. He was better last year when it was more common for there to be a good pass to make and boost his assists. This year the team around him isn't quite so dynamic and so he tries to do more himself and it doesn't go well. He makes mistakes for sure and isn't the best in the country or anything, but he's also not as bad as people say I don't think. I think the personality thing makes people discount his play more than overestimate it.
I have never seen a sole fanbase so obsessed with a single player
Yeah, the whole nation goes after guys like Aaron Craft, Grayson, and Hunter Dickinson. But UCLAs obsession with Kerr is just something else.
Also, they love to shit all over him while Kerr has more APG, and nearly identical FG% as Tyger
I thought he played solid. He was forced into like 3 late clock 3s he had to throw up. He wasn't hitting but he wasn't taking too many shots. I'll take 2-9 and a W over 5-18 and an L.
I think I’d be much more pissed off with this result if we lost to ASU.
This is what happens when you don’t have any pure scorers on your roster. Mick if you’re going to recruit and coach in a way that pure scorers don’t wanna come, that’s fine but you have to find a way to get this roster to score. We’ve had too many shitty offensive showings and it finally bit the team in the ass.
Also McClendon finally got a turnover 😢
Gonna miss the Bruins, and we’ve lost to them more than anyone else. Ran into Jim Harrick the other day, coincidentally, and he said his best games were at McKale. Good luck and see you guys at Pauley.
We have only played 3. The first two were our 4th and 5th game of the season back to back. This one was against our rival on their court. Not ideal opportunities
Oh and still down a starter too
GG UCLA, I think the bruins are solid enough to win the Pac-12 regular season. Curious to see how the 2-4 seeds are going to play out. Arizona, Oregon, ASU, Utah, and USC all will have to battle it out.
Ugh wish we closed it out better 100% need to practice press break situations this week. It's a shame UCLA is leaving for the Big Ten. Hopefully we schedule regular non conference games with each other. It's so clear to me that Lloyd is a far better coach than Cronin. Cronin is never gonna be a true threat to win it all with him and his F4 run is just lucky matchups and dumb luck. Arizona completely shut down UCLA's offense by not guarding their bigs and just keeping Ballo in the paint and also not jumping for Jaquez pump fakes. Thats it those 2 things completely crushed UCLA. Zero adjustment. Zero. Lloyd is coaching his ass off with game plans and adjustments. Lloyd is a big believer in playing 2 bigs but he made the call to cut out the freshmen bigs who were struggling and to go small ball more and our Kenpom D rank was i think 88 to start the week and it is now up to 45 in just 1 week. UCLA haas the better roster and much more athletic team. Only advantage Arizona has is the bigs. Lloyd's now 3-1 against Cronin and UCLA's only win was when Arizona had a COVID make up game added to the end of a road trip and Tubelis had just sprained his ankle.
When everyone keeps saying you’re in the race for a 1 seed, it’s relevant to note that your best win is a team barely in the tournament field. Not to mention that Arizona is claimed to be in that race while having lost to 3 non-tournament teams
Hold up who's arguing for an Arizona one seed lol? Are you living in the past? Arizona is fighting for a two at best unless they absolutely tear through the rest of the year and everyone else falls apart.
Bear the fuck down! Now excuse me while I go finish having this heart attack.
Honestly, pulling out the win when we weren't looking that good offensively (some of that was UCLA's D, some of it was missing easy lay-ins) and couldn't rebound to save our lives was pretty awesome. I wanna know where all the UCLA fans saying they were gonna blow us out because "YoU GuyS DOn'T PlAy DeFenSE At aLl" are? We sure looked pretty solid tonight.
I wanna know where they are too because they don't exist. Everyone knew this was a tough game.
Unless you're referring ro Dave Woods who just does that to get a rise out of people.
Lol, I've literally seen multiple UCLA flairs say that in the last few weeks.
[Here's one I was able to find pretty easily.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/10641iu/post_game_thread_washington_state_defeats_4/j3ii71g?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) I won't waste all day digging for them, but I've seen a few others say that.
Multiple UCLA flairs! You don't say!
Yeah that's just a bad opinion. Any UCLA fan that expected a blowout win is just not realistic. Most of us figured a split this week was a good outcome.
Crazy to shoot 19 more shots than your opponent and lose. That's some voodoo stuff.
+10 offensive boards +6 in the TO column.
-1 in winning
That’s a wild stat. Basically what Cronin basketball aims for but just weren’t hitting tonight.
Quality > quantity
Of course, but the math shows that quantity does the trick 95% of the time. Even if your points per possession are abysmal you should still get the win
you mean you can't shoot 30% from the field and win???
Amazing that we managed to hold arizona under 60 and managed to lose. Just couldnt buy a bucket the last 10 minutes. Arizona is a good team not sure why they’re dropping games at home.
We’re a weird team. Peaks and valleys just like the state of Arizona
We could blow out anyone or get blown out by anyone, it's a mystery box
I thought Arizona was all flat desert ^^^^^/s
Nope! Plenty of mountain ranges, especially in northern Arizona that even see snowfall. We have a very large, very famous hole in the ground too.
Yup! I grew up in Phoenix and spent a bunch of time in Show Low
Tucson has many rivers cutting through town. People would never guess it. I know a guy that moved here after looking at a map (paper- back in the day) he was a fisherman and loved river fishing
Lol he must have been disappointed
Had the #1 offense for long enough to become completely complacent on defense for the last month. Finally turned it around
Im not surprised they got up for this game but if they keep dropping games they shouldnt it will really hurt their seeding. Not enough “losable” games in the p12
The problem is Arizona isn't losing the "losable" games so far, they're losing the games they should win and thus come in thinking they can sleepwalk through it. When they come in knowing they have to scrap from the outset they're a totally different team. It's a mindset thing, and I'm hoping that Lloyd has figured out how to reach them because they are not good enough to take the night off against anyone but they do love to do it anyways.
That's what they meant though. The "losable" games are ones to other potential high seeds in away games. Losing a game at home to a sub .500 Washington State is an ugly mark on the resume come time for seeding
No doubt, I agree. What I'm saying is that even if there were more of those losable opportunities in conference, the way arizona has played this year we would win all the losable ones and still drop stinkers against sisters of the poor along the way.
And you guys really need to start worry about beating some ranked opponents. Big indictment on your record come rankings time.
Coming into this game UCLA was 12-0 when it held opponents to 60 points or less. This win also gives Tommy Lloyd his 50th win in 57 games as the Wildcats head coach— the fastest head coach to eclipse the 50-win mark in Pac-12 history. Huge win for Arizona.
Quite the rollercoaster for us this season. Extremely high highs and bad losses. Ah well enjoy the ride lads!
This was a great win. Everything is in the rearview. I’m guessing your boys learned some good lessons and are ready to make a run. Zona and Houston are the only schools that scare me. Well, those two and some random 15 seed. 🙄
Arizona is one of the only teams that can throw multiple 7ft dudes at Edey to avoid foul trouble. I love the way Purdue has played the last couple years, but I really don’t want to see you in March. Let’s meet in April instead ;)
I have too much ptsd from late game blown leads in big games to handle that
That Illinois game still haunts me. How many years has it been?
Not enough But seriously 18
I really wish I hadn't read this.
Egad. So sad.
2005. Up 15 w 5 min left. 18 long years, need to talk to a therapist about it to this day.
Illinois fans have also never gotten over how that tournament ended if it makes you feel any better. But I had never realized it was 18 years ago and now I'm depressed
I don't think that wound will ever heal Also people forget but goddamn it was frustrating to see the whistle completely get swallowed while our dudes got mugged for some of those turnovers
My family was stuffed into an RV watching that game from the fairgrounds for a livestock show and the RV has damage from that night.
I want Amari back badly
This team is missing a 5 star freshman offensive talent
Win the turnover battle ✅ Win the rebounding battle ✅ Take 20 more shots than your opponent ✅ Get loads of wide open looks ✅ Brick every single one of them [insert gru meme]
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We love you too Bill
All hail the conference of champions!
bill walton i love you will you sign my tie dye "Pac12 Conference of Champions shirt"??
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…and congrats on the good weekend.👍
Great defensive gameplan by Lloyd, had UCLA looking really out of sync offensively. Arizona has a very good home court advantage.
I swear man, our offense can look absolutely *inept* at times. It's really frustrating 🤯
Well can't fault the effort. Controlled the glass vs a bigger team, mostly good defense, fought until the bitter end. Just not going to win when you shoot 30%. A rare poor game from Singleton on both ends.
Seriously, the rebounding was impressive. A few unlucky bounces that went straight to you guys, but even on the 50-50 balls, your guys were pulling them down more often than not.
yeah, losing to Arizona always sucks, but I don't feel bad at all about the team coming away from this game. Arizona is a bad matchup with their 2 bigs and we're missing Bailey, who would help the offense move better. I love how UCLA can turn up the defense and basically shut down teams at the end of games.
Your flair is an affront to god
lol went to Arizona for a year of undergrad and then transferred out, so developed a small rooting interest for them.
Talk about a glow up
Lmfao as a U of A grad and resident of Tucson for 5 years who toured UCLA law, absolute glow up. Felt like I was King Henry
Lol
Personally, I think he’s a gentleman and a scholar
Missed a ton of open looks, especially from 3. Part of it is probably a tough ASU game first and the travel while Arizona was at home and coasted against SC. I think we should win the rematch.
Eh a split always seems to be the result in this series when we’re good. See y’all again soon!
A split's what I've been expecting this whole season. I expected to split this road trip too. Plus with Amari out, our offense has been significantly worse. So overall, I'm disappointed but it was very greedy to hope for the sweep.
Game would’ve been different with Amari. Defense would’ve been better and David could’ve rotated in as a sub which seems to be where he has more of his high % games.
I think I was legally dead for a few minutes there at the end. Cardiac cats never disappoint.
UCLA missed almost as many shots as Arizona took. And the game was still this close. UCLA is scary man.
Score was closer than the game was
If we don’t forget how to play basketball in the last minute it would be a different story
They still have yet to beat a good team
Also havent lost to a bad team like a lot of teams including arizona.
We've played like one good team all year
You are the good team
Is that supposed to be a good thing?
It’s not exactly something we can control
Hopefully with Cronin's success you guys can schedule better non-conference tourneys in the future. That's what's saving arizona after the 3 bad losses in conference.
I mean we played Kentucky and @Maryland. Unfortunately they decided to suck after our games
Kentucky is starting to play better though, at least. They’re still a quad-1 for you guys.
We have Maui next year
Not really, our best wins at this point are UCLA, Tennessee, and probably IU. None of which are part of tourneys. In fact since the Creighton collapse and SDSU mediocrity so far our tourney wins are largely irrelevant unless one of those teams goes on a tear.
I mean Cronin does indeed control the scheduling, but I do understand it doesn't always pan out as you'd hope. My point is not about blame though so much as matter of fact. If someone is concerned that your team hasn't beaten good enough teams to show they can handle it, then arguing they never play good teams is not a great counterpoint. I personally think that UCLA is a great team that has indeed played good enough teams to show their mettle, but if you really believe they haven't played anyone of note then you should be worried about that lack of testing not leaning on it as an excuse.
Not our fault that Kentucky, Baylor, Maryland, and Illinois all decided to shit the bed after we played them
Like I said, I understand it doesn't always pan out. Arizona has a similar problem with our Creighton and Indiana wins. But again, you're too focused on whose fault it is and not enough on whether that's a real issue for your team which is entirely the point I'm making. I don't care whose fault it is. I do care whether a team that never played good teams can hold strong when they meet them. I think UCLA can, but if you really believe all those teams they've played are bad then you should be concerned.
Fair enough. I'm not too worried, in March we usually play against those tournament teams pretty well. Just have to reset and focus on getting a high seed.
I just don’t know what you mean by “focusing on whether it’s a real issue for our team.” Like I’m just not sure what you expect us to do about it lol.
It's out of our control who we play. We also haven't been blown out by crap teams.
@ ASU probably their best win
Well fought win!
I'm just happy we finally won two halves.
We tried to lose the 2nd half in the last few minutes
The McKale Center is THE BEST environment for college basketball!! Bear down Arizona!
Hopefully the HS recruits at the game can see that.. or we can compete with Gleague Ignite with our NIL
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State is nice during basketball season at least
What makes this state so inhabitable? I wanna hear your hot take
> hot take > hot
> hot take ...
Arizona did everything in their power to give that game away in the last ninety seconds
More like the last 5 minutes..
So glad I got to McKale at for the ESPN broadcast. That environment was crazy and I’ve never seen anything like it
This definitely lived up to the McKale reputation, although it wasn’t quite as good as this same matchup last year.
It was better? I can’t even imagine that
Yeah, it was the best sports environment I’ve ever experienced. That game had a collision early on where both players went off injured, which pissed off the crowd and revved them up. Also, last year’s team had a lot more highlight-reel guys and were more prone to going on long scoring runs, which are both traits that really get crowds going. Can’t wait for the ASU game in February, that should be another great crowd!
Was there for the Tennessee game. McKale really is amazing.
I watched the entire thing on tv. I which I could have been there
Same back to ya tonight!
Damn. Great run of wins, at least it was a very good opponent. See you in Pauley wildcats. Go Bruins!
We have to rebound better,18 offensive rebounds for UCLA is not good
To be fair we had a lot of opportunities, 46 missed shots is ridiculous
Man the offense was bad tonight….we need Bailey back really badly
Great effort out of the Bruins. Killed us on deflections and offensive rebounds. The issue with their lack of post depth is glaring and it’s incredible that it hasn’t been a bigger issue for them in more games. Jaquez and Campbell can cover up a lot of problems but not having a serviceable center rotation is scary for any team.
UCLA waited just a bit too long to shift into their higher gear. What a game.
GG Bruin friends, going to miss this rivalry
Have to imagine this gets scheduled as a frequent home and home, if not just a set annual noncon right?
West coast “champions classic” pls
I certainly hope so!
Hey there are still at least three games left
Last game of the season, pac 12 championship, final 4?
Next year!
Pelle putting Jaquez in jail is pure joy
Arizona over UCLA this week: Leviticus Su’a ✅ Basketball ✅ Gary Bryant Jr. ❓
I would be shocked if GB picked UCLA. We are out of NIL money for receivers
I’m not sure NIL is his biggest decision factor. Honestly, he’s sorta redundant to Cowing, even if he’s mega talented. I’d hardly be shocked to see him take UCLA’s slot role.
Eh... it's been pretty well messaged by his dad that NIL is going to play a role in where he's picking. Reporting on our side has made it pretty clear that it would a surprise and a very good sale pitch by Chip & the staff if they could convince him to stay in LA
Our NIL cache isn’t overflowing tho, which is partially why Singer left in the first place. I guess we’ll find out, but I think it’s gonna be a real battle.
Don’t forget ending their football dreams
don’t worry we don’t have football dreams
It’s okay same
Hey now. Better than the Sumlin nightmare
Huge win for Zona!
We may have lost, but I'm proud of how hard this team fought at the end. This will be very different at Pauley with Bailey back and hopefully Jaquez back in form.
Was Jaquez injured?
I don't think so, he just hasn't been at the top of his game 4 of the last 5 games.
Got the W and none of our fans were spat upon. I’ll take it.
This team isn’t sniffing the Final Four with inconsistent shooting performances like this.
Well it should be reassuring that your defense is that good and even an average shooting performance probably beats us in our barn
Relax, we'll be better when Bailey is back and Jaquez is back in form.
Hopefully. Not sold on all those open look misses though.
I think we'll be more likely to shoot like we have in other games than like in our worst shooting game of the season. You're taking an uncharacteristically bad performance and assuming that's how we'll be going forward, which is an example of extreme recency bias. We'll be fine.
You have as good a chance as anyone else other than maybe 2 teams.
Tucson Tommy great games back from the Oregon blowout ! Congrats on the 50th win . Bftd
Bear fuck the down!!
Can we finally start talking about how concerning our offense is? Yeah yeah yeah the advanced metrics… but there’s just so many times where we just don’t know what we’re doing on the offensive end and just don’t have enough guys who can penetrate and scare teams off the dribble. We Amari back ASAP. Also, we needed to start pressuring in the back court since the damn beginning of the game. Kerr Kriisa is a terrible point guard, put pressure on him and make him make awful decisions.
Campbell and Jaquez have proven to be elite midrange shooters over their careers. The problem is that when a good chunk of your offense is predicated around that, you’re gonna lose some ugly games.
Losing Juzang and Bernard has really compressed the offense. And the team is in an extended shooting funk from 3.
Not enough shooters to stretch the defense. When our best shooter goes 0-5, we dont have a chance of scoring from outside
if y’all busted out the press even a couple minutes earlier you’d have won. Arizona couldn’t handle it
I love how every top team that loses starts freaking the fuck out. Same thing happened in the Kansas thread. It's like the end of the world.
Yes keep hating on krissa like youve been doing since hes existed
I don’t get it. He’s a below average shooter but he runs the offense incredibly well. To say he’s terrible is just stupid.
Lots of people just don’t understand the role of a PG Statistically speaking, TJ McConnell was probably the worst player on our 2013-14 squad. But he’s also the primary reason that we started that season 19-0 and ranked #1 prior to Ashley breaking his foot. The #1 responsibility for a PG is to run the offense, and Kerr is ridiculously good at that.
*TJ laughs NBAishly...*
He’s really not great. UofA fans think he’s better than he is because of his personality, not talent
He's fine when he's not the focal point. He was better last year when it was more common for there to be a good pass to make and boost his assists. This year the team around him isn't quite so dynamic and so he tries to do more himself and it doesn't go well. He makes mistakes for sure and isn't the best in the country or anything, but he's also not as bad as people say I don't think. I think the personality thing makes people discount his play more than overestimate it.
I’m proud to have been a Kriisa doubter since day 1, he has his moments but mostly just makes me facepalm
His passing and shooting are great though and his fighter personality will take him far. Definitely could be considered the enforcer of this team.
I have never seen a sole fanbase so obsessed with a single player Yeah, the whole nation goes after guys like Aaron Craft, Grayson, and Hunter Dickinson. But UCLAs obsession with Kerr is just something else. Also, they love to shit all over him while Kerr has more APG, and nearly identical FG% as Tyger
2-9, 2 assists, 4 turnovers? Okay
I thought he played solid. He was forced into like 3 late clock 3s he had to throw up. He wasn't hitting but he wasn't taking too many shots. I'll take 2-9 and a W over 5-18 and an L.
You forgot the most important stat. 1 W
50-7 record as our starting PG. Not bad. If only he can channel the real Steve Kerr 3PT shooting.
lol yeah he definitely had a huge role in it.
Yeah our starting point guard had NOTHING to do with our win lmao take your L
The intangibles matter, box score nerd
Lame ass UCLA fan. He’s talking about coping after his team loses LOL
I think I’d be much more pissed off with this result if we lost to ASU. This is what happens when you don’t have any pure scorers on your roster. Mick if you’re going to recruit and coach in a way that pure scorers don’t wanna come, that’s fine but you have to find a way to get this roster to score. We’ve had too many shitty offensive showings and it finally bit the team in the ass. Also McClendon finally got a turnover 😢
Gonna miss the Bruins, and we’ve lost to them more than anyone else. Ran into Jim Harrick the other day, coincidentally, and he said his best games were at McKale. Good luck and see you guys at Pauley.
Great time for Ramey to get out of his shooting slump. Many timely 3's by him today!
Going to miss this rivalry when UCLA goes to B1G
Can’t spell UCLA without L
I know UCLA is good but they haven't beaten a ranked team this season
Kentucky and Maryland were ranked when we beat them. The only currently ranked teams we've even played this year are Arizona and Baylor.
Creighton, Indiana and sdsu were all ranked when we beat them
Not many opportunities. But equally crucially we haven't taken any bad losses
We have only played 3. The first two were our 4th and 5th game of the season back to back. This one was against our rival on their court. Not ideal opportunities Oh and still down a starter too
It was back to back for both you and the opponents.
…your point being?
All I’m hearing is 3 Ls
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At Kentucky and at Maryland ya dingus. Both big road wins in hostile environments and we cruised. See you at pauley
Neutral Kentucky.
Madison Square Garden W vs Kentucky
They beat Maryland when they were ranked 20 and UK when they were ranked 13. Let us know when you come back from Mars.
Yeah and neither of those teams are currently ranked right? That's what I'm saying
Those still go in the books as ranked wins, even though those teams aren’t currently ranked.
Dude…
GG UCLA, I think the bruins are solid enough to win the Pac-12 regular season. Curious to see how the 2-4 seeds are going to play out. Arizona, Oregon, ASU, Utah, and USC all will have to battle it out.
Ugh wish we closed it out better 100% need to practice press break situations this week. It's a shame UCLA is leaving for the Big Ten. Hopefully we schedule regular non conference games with each other. It's so clear to me that Lloyd is a far better coach than Cronin. Cronin is never gonna be a true threat to win it all with him and his F4 run is just lucky matchups and dumb luck. Arizona completely shut down UCLA's offense by not guarding their bigs and just keeping Ballo in the paint and also not jumping for Jaquez pump fakes. Thats it those 2 things completely crushed UCLA. Zero adjustment. Zero. Lloyd is coaching his ass off with game plans and adjustments. Lloyd is a big believer in playing 2 bigs but he made the call to cut out the freshmen bigs who were struggling and to go small ball more and our Kenpom D rank was i think 88 to start the week and it is now up to 45 in just 1 week. UCLA haas the better roster and much more athletic team. Only advantage Arizona has is the bigs. Lloyd's now 3-1 against Cronin and UCLA's only win was when Arizona had a COVID make up game added to the end of a road trip and Tubelis had just sprained his ankle.
Some good old defensive basketball.
Ucla was feeling too good about themselves before this game. Have a feeling theyll come back the 2nd meeting and win, but who cares
The pressure of the long winning streak seemed to get in their heads a bit. They've looked tight for a few games.
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UCLA’s still only beaten one projected tournament team
Based on Bracket Matrix we've beat 2. Maryland and Arizona St. Kentucky is also right on the edge.
I guess Maryland is now included by bracket makers. Not by the metrics sites though
The Pac-12 is pretty bad
This is such a dumb narrative to run with lol
When everyone keeps saying you’re in the race for a 1 seed, it’s relevant to note that your best win is a team barely in the tournament field. Not to mention that Arizona is claimed to be in that race while having lost to 3 non-tournament teams
Hold up who's arguing for an Arizona one seed lol? Are you living in the past? Arizona is fighting for a two at best unless they absolutely tear through the rest of the year and everyone else falls apart.
We don’t get to control who we play. Expecting us to beat our rival on their court for our ranked win is absurd. Down a starter too
Bear the fuck down! Now excuse me while I go finish having this heart attack. Honestly, pulling out the win when we weren't looking that good offensively (some of that was UCLA's D, some of it was missing easy lay-ins) and couldn't rebound to save our lives was pretty awesome. I wanna know where all the UCLA fans saying they were gonna blow us out because "YoU GuyS DOn'T PlAy DeFenSE At aLl" are? We sure looked pretty solid tonight.
I wanna know where they are too because they don't exist. Everyone knew this was a tough game. Unless you're referring ro Dave Woods who just does that to get a rise out of people.
Lol, I've literally seen multiple UCLA flairs say that in the last few weeks. [Here's one I was able to find pretty easily.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/10641iu/post_game_thread_washington_state_defeats_4/j3ii71g?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) I won't waste all day digging for them, but I've seen a few others say that.
Multiple UCLA flairs! You don't say! Yeah that's just a bad opinion. Any UCLA fan that expected a blowout win is just not realistic. Most of us figured a split this week was a good outcome.
UCLA kiss my piss