LA Times gives about the same credit as Maclean

[CDAGRIZ]

Not very much. Kind of suggests UCLA lost, not that UM won. In a way, I agree. But it's tough to say a team let one slip when they trailed the whole game.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-1206-ucla-montana-20101206,0,2885751.story

 

[djollieballs]

Got to love Cherry's quote:

Montana guard Will Cherry, who scored 13 of his game-high 18 points in the second half, said he sensed dissension among the Bruins.

"I could see it in their eyes and I could see that they were bickering among one another," Cherry said. "We wanted to keep our foot on their necks."

That won't make the Bruin boosters happy. Lol.

The article is right though, this is not a good UCLA team and Howland prob aint gonna be the coach next year.

If the Griz could just hit 75% (we hit less than 50%) of their free's this would be an elite Griz team. Frustrating.

 

[griz8791]

I had a nice leisurely browse through all 4 UCLA message boards with my morning coffee. Just like our football board, only with different colors.

 

[Proud Griz Man]

Virtually all the LA newspapers and UCLA fans are bitter after losing 4 consecutive games, and
the team is underachieving. In last two years, Howland's support appears to be crumbling.

http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_16785141

Baffle of the Bruins: UCLA stunned by Montana at home

... "We did a very poor job of attacking their zone, without a lot of patience," Howland said. "We probably should have spent all our time yesterday on zone offense. "We did not attack it well. We had a bunch of layups tonight we missed. Short, crippled shots. We were a step slow to everything." A two-possession game at halftime quickly blew up on UCLA as Montana pushed the ball with ease despite 17 turnovers. The Grizzlies jumped to a seven-point lead six minutes into the game as the Bruins found little offensive rhythm and looked disjointed in the half-court game against a Montana squad with ample size in the post. With 7-footer Derek Selvig and 6-foot-11 center Brian Qvale (13 points) pounding UCLA's own big boys - freshman center Joshua Smith and sophomore forwards Brendan Lane and Nelson - the Grizzlies went into the half up 32-28.

It only got worse from there for the Bruins. Montana shot 61 percent from the field in the second half, first punishing UCLA inside and then thriving in the running game when the Bruins tightened up. Point guard Will Cherry had a game-high 18 points, including 13 in the second half. The Grizzlies led by as many as 17 points with less than four minutes to play before a mini-UCLA run mercifully brought the Bruins to within single digits. "Their size inside bothered us defensively, and Qvale did a good job of scoring down there when he got the ball in the block," Howland said. UCLA's uneven play brought out the boo-birds for the first time this season as the Bruins were 3-0 at Pauley Pavilion before the loss.

 

[Proud Griz Man]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/games/201012050606/photos?slug=ap-97a612d7a4ed425e8d15f43ac101dec7#photoViewer=urn%3Anewsml%3Asports.yahoo%2Cap%3A20050301%3Ancaab%2Cphoto%2Cap-b0afb3733faf4ae48042f98521e0856d%3A1

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Will Cherry scored 18 points and Brian Qvale added 13 to lead Montana to a 66-57 victory over UCLA Sunday night.
The victory was the first for the Grizzlies over the Bruins in the five-game history between the two teams.
... Montana (4-3) held the Bruins to 28 points in the first half by cutting off the inside pass and using a collapsing defense when UCLA was able to get the ball into the paint.

 

[wbtfg]

I had a nice leisurely browse through all 4 UCLA message boards with my morning coffee. Just like our football board, only with different colors.

:lol:

 

[bigtyme]

Got to love Cherry's quote:

Montana guard Will Cherry, who scored 13 of his game-high 18 points in the second half, said he sensed dissension among the Bruins.

"I could see it in their eyes and I could see that they were bickering among one another," Cherry said. "We wanted to keep our foot on their necks."

That won't make the Bruin boosters happy. Lol.

The article is right though, this is not a good UCLA team and Howland prob aint gonna be the coach next year.

If the Griz could just hit 75% (we hit less than 50%) of their free's this would be an elite Griz team. Frustrating.

Three Final Fours in Three years and your saying he is out??? Interesting. Stupid, but interesting.

 

[djollieballs]

Got to love Cherry's quote:

Montana guard Will Cherry, who scored 13 of his game-high 18 points in the second half, said he sensed dissension among the Bruins.

"I could see it in their eyes and I could see that they were bickering among one another," Cherry said. "We wanted to keep our foot on their necks."

That won't make the Bruin boosters happy. Lol.

The article is right though, this is not a good UCLA team and Howland prob aint gonna be the coach next year.

If the Griz could just hit 75% (we hit less than 50%) of their free's this would be an elite Griz team. Frustrating.

Three Final Fours in Three years and your saying he is out??? Interesting. Stupid, but interesting.

They had a losing season last year and missed the tourney for the first time in a very long time. Sound familiar?

This year they just lost to an above average low major with glaring weaknesses at home. Not just lost but got dominated. This is the most decorated program in the history of college BB we're talking about here.

His white ass has first degree burns on it right now.

I'll put this in football terms so you can understand it. If Pflu has a losing record and loses to SUU to close out the home season next year, what do you think would happen? Engstrom and O'Day would have to hire body guards if they didn't fire him. That's basically what is happening to Bruin basketball right now. Actually though, in that scenario, Royce da 5'9 would probably stick his flat-lander thumb up his butt while dreaming about Rob Ash because he loves us being on equal footing with the Cats so much.

UCLA aint Montana, sport. You can't run a proud program into the ground without being punished at a real school with real leadership.

 

[mtgrizrule]

As for MacLean, I would like to see him try getting open looks and shoot a high percentage against this GRIZ team. He would struggle too. Most teams will struggle to shoot well as long as Qvale, Cherry, and Selvig stay healthy, and out of foul trouble.

 

[Ashley Schaeffer]

As for MacLean, I would like to see him try getting open looks and shoot a high percentage against this GRIZ team. He would struggle too. Most teams will struggle to shoot well as long as Qvale, Cherry, and Selvig stay healthy, and out of foul trouble.

Hell, pard, I don't disagree with you, not in the least; so don't go ahead and take this the wrong way. Having never seen this year's squad play, I can't really conclusively comment on your statement. But having watched Don MacLean play many games on television and in the flesh, I would wager that he might just do fine against most any defense.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

It's really, really interesting how a luckluster performance was predictably in the making considering the losing efforts of UCLA's football and WBB teams. I mean, extra really. If they lose we all got to lose, right? I wonder what would happen if the Dodgers went back to Brooklyn? Everybody give up and walk into the ocean and not swim back to shore? Yeah, that makes a hellva lot of sense alright. Blame it all on the woman's basketball team; maybe they should have played the game instead. Probably would have done better anyways.