Bear Down Wildcats

ASUHATER! wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:Maybe if Don or Banners comes back, but which other fans have come back? RC97?

You guys are just posting more, more often and more fervently. The ucla bandwagon is loading up! Maybe traffic somehow won't be as bad at the next home game?

Post more and more suddenly coincides with the season starting a few weeks ago? Perhaps just a coincidence?

As for traffic, this was thanksgiving weekend, which had previously spurred the great debate on how the tall twin could make it from Westwood to the OC in about 20 minutes. Ah, the good ole' days of goazcats

Main Event wrote:Bug has been here regardless no doubt. Other dude pretty much stayed clear from the basketball section once Alford got hired and pretty much just chilled in the Politics section from then on

I ("other dude") have been as critical of Alford as anyone, and remain so. And UCLA basketball is going a hell of a lot better than is politics in this country, so...

Jason Kidd reincarnated

for my money, best player in the country -- he would be my first choice of player to add if I was given one.

by a mile

97cats wrote:Jason Kidd reincarnated

for my money, best player in the country -- he would be my first choice of player to add if I was given one.

by a mile

It's what I've been saying, too. But be careful, 97. You're going to ruffle feathers.

please, BC -- I started this thread a year ago.

If I could have anyone in the country , especially for this team .... it would be Josh Hart hands down. and it's not that close.

If I could have any frosh it's probably BE Ball, maybe J jackson by end of year.

Ball would be borderline top 5 , def top 10 of guys I would take if starting a team throughout college. I'd take him over Fultz in a heartbeat.

PennZona20 wrote:If I could have anyone in the country , especially for this team .... it would be Josh Hart hands down. and it's not that close.

If I could have any frosh it's probably BE Ball, maybe J jackson by end of year.

Ball would be borderline top 5 , def top 10 of guys I would take if starting a team throughout college. I'd take him over Fultz in a heartbeat.

Duke has some frosh that could get in that conversation as soon as they get healthy.

I like Fultz better than most. Washington just has very little going on around him. Dickerson and Dime are ok, but that's it. Ball has the luxury of some guys who can score to help his facilitation.

LOL yea, I'm taking Fultz aka Russell Westbrook Jr. over Ball ten times out of ten

rgdeuce wrote:LOL yea, I'm taking Fultz aka Russell Westbrook Jr. over Ball ten times out of ten

not me

rgdeuce wrote:LOL yea, I'm taking Fultz aka Russell Westbrook Jr. over Ball ten times out of ten

He's more Harden than Westbrook. Fultz will be a good NBA player. He will probably be one of those good players on a terrible team

Fultz will likely be a better pro but if I could have a player to make Arizona better as a team, I'd lean towards Ball. Then again Fultz would fill a glaring need while short-handed.

Ball is the most valuable player in the country. But yes, Fultz could be the better pro.

MrBug708 wrote:

rgdeuce wrote:LOL yea, I'm taking Fultz aka Russell Westbrook Jr. over Ball ten times out of ten

He's more Harden than Westbrook. Fultz will be a good NBA player. He will probably be one of those good players on a terrible team

Fultz could be a bigger Kyrie. That's how you sell him.

I think he gets a raw deal because he has be the dominator. If he can get into a situation where he has people to share with, you'd see more of his true potential. He has no one worth sharing with at UW.

For all the foaming at the mouth Raftery was doing at how Lonzo played, I thought his ballhandling down the stretch was not great. Box score lists him as having only one turnover, but I swear I saw at least three in the second half.

Kid is good.

He is good , but some of his bad shots (and he takes a bunch) go in, and some lead to run outs on other end which doesn't help UCLAs already bad D.

Some of the stuff he does is otherworldly.

He's def in the top tier of the loaded draft along with Josh Jackson, Dennis smith, and Fultz

I think Lauri is right below that tier in the 5-8 area of draft. In any other draft Lauri would be a top 5 pick. If he stayed (I know, I know) we would have 2 of the top 4 picks next year.

After watching Smith last night I might take him over Fultz, probably not because Fultz is a better shooter, but Smith is a super athletic Chris Paul imo. He single handedly took over that Duke game.

Someone posted on twitter that Ball only had 2 shot attempts the last 10 minutes

Merkin wrote:Someone posted on twitter that Ball only had 2 shot attempts the last 10 minutes

He was too tired to get open.

if i could add any one player to any team in the country it would be Lonzo Ball

97cats wrote:if i could add any one player to any team in the country it would be Lonzo Ball

Sure would solve a lot of problems on our team.

TucsonClip wrote:

97cats wrote:if i could add any one player to any team in the country it would be Lonzo Ball

Sure would solve a lot of problems on our team.

Yeah u definitely would add a true PG to our team. The only argument is which kind of Pg u prefer. Can't go wrong w Ball though, he's a once every 10 years game changer at pg.

That's a different question than best player in the country this year.

Guys like Swanigan and Hart have dominated all year, but we are good at the 2/3/4. I tend to agree if I could add one player to THIS YEARS SQUAD AT UA, it would be Ball.

Only 1 assist last night...strange

He's shooting 43% from 3. Is that a good enough mark?

As Space said, Fultz plays with dog shit. Think there is a far different tune if you swap Ball and Fultz. You can give Fultz the Lebron on the Cavs his first go round treatment, you cant do that to Ball. No disrespect to Ball, he is still one of the best college point guards I have ever seen.

You put Lonzo on Washington and they have a better record than they do now. He's had great stats, but hasn't had a game where you could say he put the team on his back and willed them to win. He doesn't make them better.

I wouldn't think twice if I was b picking between Fultz or Ball. It would be Ball. Kid is incredible and makes everyone around him better, even his coach

UAEebs86 wrote:

Hi father is an attention whore who should keep his mouth shut.

It's enough pressure to make it in the L without those type of comments. Just say how proud you are at what he's accomplished and look forward to seeing him play for many years.

He makes comments like these because it gets his sons in the news. And the press will keep coming back

MrBug708 wrote:He makes comments like these because it gets his sons in the news. And the press will keep coming back

We call that what happened in Sweden last night. Maybe he wants to cover up his recent parking ticket at Pauley.

MrBug708 wrote:

ASUHATER! wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:Maybe if Don or Banners comes back, but which other fans have come back? RC97?

You guys are just posting more, more often and more fervently. The ucla bandwagon is loading up! Maybe traffic somehow won't be as bad at the next home game?

Post more and more suddenly coincides with the season starting a few weeks ago? Perhaps just a coincidence?

As for traffic, this was thanksgiving weekend, which had previously spurred the great debate on how the tall twin could make it from Westwood to the OC in about 20 minutes. Ah, the good ole' days of goazcats

Last year UCLA played Arizona in Westwood and it was a 7pm start. I got from Hermosa to Westwood in 25 minutes by just avoiding the 405. The traffic excuses are lame.

Did you helicopter in? haha

No. He just knows not to make excuses like ucla "fans" always have to.

scumdevils86 wrote:No. He just knows not to make excuses like ucla "fans" always have to.

If you close your eyes hard enough, maybe it will come true!

I would explain the route but then I would just sound like the SNL "Californians" skit (Vista Del Mar to Culver, take Culver to sepelvuda, etc.) But in short, in 9 years of living in LA I've learned that anyone who tries the 405 during rush hour is amateur hour.

I love how la breaks the waze app because you really have to know the nuances to get anywhere.

I'll save my waze rant for another day, it for people who really know what they are doing and how to drive it's a dump app. The best only thing it's good for us to tell me what not to do since all the other lemmings are taking the current "quickest" route.

Lonzo limping

UAEebs86 wrote:

He probably is right. I hope that changes tonight.

Still in a walking boot today

MrBug708 wrote:Still in a walking boot today

He's gonna Willis Reed it, isn't he...

MrBug708 wrote:Still in a walking boot today

Scheer just tweeted his ankle isn't even taped up.

Chicat wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:Still in a walking boot today

He's gonna Willis Reed it, isn't he...

Eh, I'm assuming we are getting Arizona's best effort, so I doubt it matters

On the pregame show they were talking like Ball was fine and would be playing normally.

Lonzo's Dad sounds like a peach

He's good, but not THAT good.

Kyrie Irving was better in college.

I think he's incredible -- if he played for Arizona they'd be undefeated

He is amazing. So much so that the Jason Kidd comps sell him short. He can shoot unlike Kidd coming out of college and is even more creative as a playmaker. He should be a lock for number 1 overall. The idea of Fulz going above him is lunacy IMO.

I've been following college basketball since 1988 and I can't think of a better 19 year old point guard.

It will be Interesting to see a non-laker team draft Ball and hold his draft rights for 4 years. I wonder how quick dad's declaration will change.