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  • News For Thursday, January 07, 2010
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  • More Bay Area Trip Notes: Monty's Candid Observations On Bruin "D" & "The Overlooked Factor" (105 clicks)
    It is still unbelievable to me that the Bruins are 15 point underdogs tonight against California Bears. Remember the Bears are playing without their dependable and solid backup pg Jorge Gutierrez, and yet they are still favored by that much over Howland's Bruins.
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  • New Men's Basketball Ticket Offer (79 clicks)
    UCLA Athletics announces new Bruin Kids Days for the remainder of the 2010 Men's Basketball home schedule.
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  • Ben Howland Meets The Media (112 clicks)
    UCLA head basketball coach Ben Howland met with the media Tuesday in advance of the Bruins' trip to Northern California for games at Cal and Stanford. The Coach talked about last Saturday's loss to Arizona and some lineup changes for tomorrow's game in Berkeley.
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  • Ben Ball Gameday Roundup: Ill Communication In Howlandwood (88 clicks)
    Well by now everyone knows about Tyler Honeycutt starting tonight's game at Haas Pavilion.The move by Coach Ben Howland caught most of us by (pleasant) surprise and it gives us something to look forward to in what appears to be (at least to me) essentially a hopeless trip to Bay Area this basketball season. From basketball perspective the move should help us because Honeycutt brings more athleticism, defensive intensity and rebounding skills to the table, however, reading through the reports today, there seems to be another issue hovering around the background of this program.

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  • What Makes a Team Bad? (101 clicks)
    A "common excuse" during Dorrell years: playbook was "too complicated". There are usually no easy answers to explain bad football teams as answers are usually more complex than simple excuses such as, "we don't have the talent", "our coaches are bad", "our playcalling sucks", "our team wasn't excited to play", "our coach made a few bad calls", "we did not make the correct adjustments", or in the case of the Raiders, "our owner won't die". I think that most of these are pretty superficial reasons - you can see them on gameday but their is often an underlying root cause.
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  • [Updated] Getting Ready For A Hopeless Trip (76 clicks)
    Over at California Golden Blogs, Avinash goes inside the numbers for UCLA's upcoming matchup against Bears. There is not much in there I can disagree with as he offers up the only bone for UCLA basketball fans: The big thing that could help UCLA is if Jorge Gutierrez can't suit up, which would force Christopher and Robertson into more defensive assignments on the talented Lee and maybe stretch the Cal rotations a little more.
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  • Howland shakes up the lineup for California game (74 clicks)
    Anderson is benched as punishment after showing up late to see trainer. Lee moves to point guard, and Honeycutt gets his first start. Anderson is benched as punishment after showing up late to see trainer. Lee moves to point guard, and Honeycutt gets his first start.

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  • Up next for UCLA: Wednesday at California (75 clicks)
    Cal features a veteran starting five led by guards Jerome Randle and Patrick Christopher. Cal features a veteran starting five led by guards Jerome Randle and Patrick Christopher.

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  • UCLA basketball: Point guard Jerime Anderson benched (154 clicks)
    UCLA point guard Jerime Anderson will start Wednesday's game against California on the bench, punished for arriving late to an injury rehabilitation session this week. Coach Ben Howland said Malcolm Lee will shift to the point and freshman Tyler Honeycutt...

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  • Rolled Out (56 clicks)
    After Saturday's 77-63 loss to Arizona, Michael Roll said he was not so much shocked by the drastic one-game turnaround - UCLA shot 83 percent from the field in the first half against Arizona State on Thursday and 21 percent in the first half against the Wildcats - as he was disappointed. After reviewing the game film, he was singing the same tune.
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  • Aching Anderson (54 clicks)
    Jerime Anderson said that he was hampered after tweaking his old groin injury late last week, but that it wasn't serious. However, the injury - which sidelined him early in preseason camp - has been nagging him lately, and it's starting to take its toll. "It's really frustrating - there are a lot of good guards in the Pac-10 who I'd like to guard, like to take that challenge," Anderson said.
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  • Howland ON: (43 clicks)
    On Tyler Honeycutt: "Athletically he has a hard time staying in front of the ball right now. His big challenge is going to be defensively, staying in front of the guy he's guarding. He's built so high - he's two-thirds legs and one-third upper body. He really has to get low in his stance to guard people." On what Honeycutt adds: "The one thing he adds to our team is the ability to rebounder. Tyler is a good rebounder.
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  • More on Honeycutt/Anderson (57 clicks)
    UCLA head coach Ben Howland told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that starting sophomore point guard Jerime Anderson would be benched for tonight's game at Cal after showing up late to a scheduled injury rehab session for his left groin. Freshman forward Tyler Honeycutt will move into the starting lineup - his first start of the season - and sophomore guard Malcolm Lee will move from shooting guard to point guard.
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  • Howland ON: (58 clicks)
    On taking responsibility: "I've made mistakes, and ultimately I'm responsible for where we are right now. The key for us to dig our way back out is for us to really play hard and play good defense - zone or man, whatever the scheme is. Really try to be tough." On Jerime Anderson: "He was sore after the ASU game, to the point where he didn't even do the walk-through. Our trainer had been icing and icing it. Then on Saturday he was able to play, and had some soreness afterward. But it's kind of wait and see."
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  • Honeycutt in, Anderson out (55 clicks)
    UCLA head coach Ben Howland told reporters that Tyler Honeycutt would start his first game tomorrow night against Cal, with Jerime Anderson moved to the bench for being late to a rehab session on Sunday. Malcolm Lee will slide to the point guard spot, while Honeycutt will still provide perimeter defense. Honeycutt adds instant size and rebounding, though Lee will have to adjust to playing the point, as he's averaging nearly two turnovers a game.

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  • Howland ON: (47 clicks)
    On what killed UCLA against Arizona: "It was just really poor shot selection. I've watched the games three times, four times, and we really did a poor job. But then they really out-toughed us. They hurt us on the glass in the first half with the 10 offensive rebounds. You look at our rebounding numbers right now and they're really, really subpar from what I'd like to have." On UCLA's defense: "We have some limitations this year defensively because of athleticism.
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  • UCLA to start Honeycutt (58 clicks)
    Freshman forward Tyler Honeycutt will make his first start for UCLA tonight when the Bruins visit Cal. Honeycutt will replace point guard Jerime Anderson in the starting lineup but Malcolm Lee will take Anderson's role. UCLA coach Ben...
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  • UCLA guard Anderson benched for tardiness (48 clicks)
    UCLA coach Ben Howland said Tuesday afternoon starting sophomore point guard Jerime Anderson would be benched for tonight's game at Cal after showing up late to a scheduled injury rehab session for his left groin.
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  • News For Tuesday, January 05, 2010
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  • UCLA basketball: Bruins lose to Arizona (181 clicks)
    It took UCLA until halftime to wake up in a morning game against Arizona, and that was way too late as the Bruins fell, 77-63, at Pauley Pavilion. Most of the damage was done in a sluggish first 20 minutes....

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  • A cold, cold day (81 clicks)
    As hot as UCLA shot in the first half of its 72-70 win over Arizona State on Thursday, hitting 83 percent from the field and 80 percent from behind the 3-point line, the Bruins discovered how the other half lives on Saturday morning at Pauley Pavilion against Arizona. Apparently, the other half lives in a desolate wasteland of sorrow, no sun creeping through the clouds, dreary, bleak, cold. UCLA slept through the first half of a 77-63 loss to the Wildcats, only awakening to take off-balance shots, hitting just 5-of-24 from the field for 20.8 percent.
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  • Howland...and the zone? (63 clicks)
    A day after turning his personal history on its head and employing a 2-3 zone defense in a 72-70 win over Arizona State on Thursday, UCLA head coach Ben Howland reiterated that it was not part of a grand conspiracy or a wholesale change in his basketball strategy. But UCLA fans are happy to know that the Bruins have added it to their repertoire, as they prepare for today's 10 a.m. matchup with head coach Sean Miller's struggling Arizona Wildcats. "We may use it again," Howland said during a conference call with reporters on Friday. "We may use it (today). But I honestly had no plans to use the zone going into the game. I did see the first 15 minutes of our game, and the zone definitely helped us and against certain teams we'll use it again." Traditional Pac-10 powerhouses UCLA and Arizona have fallen on tough times this season, each team at 6-7, though the Wildcats have lost their lone conference game, to USC on Thursday. Each team has been forced to tinker with its system. In the Bruins' case, that means an upheaval to Howland's traditional man-to-man defense. Howland, however, quickly shot down the notion that Arizona State was simply shell-shocked against UCLA's zone defense; he simply thinks his team executed well. "They've seen plenty of zone, I think our guys did a good job in it," Howland said. "Eventually they started to attack it better. I'm just glad it gave us a lift when we went to it." The Bruins moved into the zone defense midway through the first half, as the Sun Devils were executing precision perimeter passing and seemed to be a step ahead of UCLA. The player seemingly most affected by the switch was Arizona State's Rihards Kuksiks, who had 15 points in the first half and zero in the second. UCLA senior guard Michael Roll said although the team did not devote much practice time to the new defense, the players were committed to being vocal on the floor. "We kind of know where everyone is at all times," Roll said. "They ran Kuksiks corner to corner, but we were talking about where he was if he was cutting middle. We knew where all their shooters were and we got out on them."
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  • Heating Up? (44 clicks)
    UCLA senior forward Nikola Dragovic credited the extra time he's been able to put in the gym during the winter break for spurring his recent hot streak, as he has increased his scoring average by nearly two points per game over the last three games. After scoring just 63 points in UCLA's first eight games - with a low point coming on an 0-for-9, zero-point performance against Mississippi State in a 72-54 loss on Dec. 12 - Dragovic has averaged 17 points per game in the team's three-game winning streak.

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  • Hoping for more Honeycut (46 clicks)
    Fans clamoring for more of Tyler Honeycutt on Thursday night were missing a key bit of information: Howland told the media on Friday that Honeycutt was sick and was limited in his minutes; he played just 11 against Arizona State, after 27 minutes against Delaware State on Dec. 27.
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  • Keefe Returns (50 clicks)
    Playing his first game since dislocating his shoulder against New Mexico State, UCLA senior forward James Keefe contributed 12 minutes, missing his only shot attempt but picking up two blocks and two rebounds. "He's limited by how many minutes he can play and how many in a row he can play," Howland said. "It was good to have him back. He had no problems, he was good today."

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  • Arizona hands UCLA its first Pac-10 loss (56 clicks)
    The Bruins shoot only 21% in the first half and never recover in a 77-63 loss to the Wildcats.

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  • UCLA, Arizona share struggles and young lineups (53 clicks)
    The two schools have winning histories but are each 6-7 this season, relying heavily on underclassmen. The two schools have winning histories but are each 6-7 this season, relying heavily on underclassmen.

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  • UCLA basketball coach Howland not fully committing to zone (61 clicks)
    A day after turning his personal history on its head and employing a 2-3 zone defense in a 72-70 win over Arizona State on Thursday, UCLA coach Ben Howland reiterated it was not part of a grand conspiracy or a wholesale change in his basketball strategy.
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  • Bruins can't shoot early or defend, get clawed by the Wildcats (64 clicks)
    In this week's podcast, I did predict a split of this weekend's series with the Arizona schools, only I got the victorious opponents mixed up. The Bruins follow up Thursday's gutwrenching victory over Arizona State with a 77-63 defeat at the hands of Arizona that never really felt that close. The Bruins fall to 6-8 for the season, and 1-1 in the Pac-10. Here is the box score. At one point late in the 2nd half, the CBS crew described the game as a story of two half's for the Bruins.
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  • Bruins Fall To Wildcats, 77-63 (76 clicks)
    Kyle Fogg scored a career-high 25 points, Jamelle Horne added 17 and Arizona defeated UCLA 77-63 on Saturday to salvage a split on its opening Pac-10 road trip. The Wildcats (7-7, 1-1 Pac-10) lost by six points at Southern California on Thursday. But they took command early against the Bruins in a game that began at 10 a.m. to end their two-game losing skid.
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