Bear Down Wildcats

MrBug708 wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:Sounds like Hands isn't worries about the move. Gotta think signing Curry helps buy credibility. At least I hope.

Also getting a check for 15 million should help with buyouts

Probably more that the Compton Magic don't want to be it uber obvious that they steer their most talented guys to Adidas programs. Give it a couple of years and we'll see them ship most of their talent to Bobby Hurley.

Part of the Compton Magic "funnelling" is because of David Grace. He has close ties to the program. If Adidas wanted to steer guys to UCLA, Brown would have been at UCLA this past year

I didn't say Adidas was steering guys, I said the Compton Magic were.

6 of one or half dozen of the other

Apparently didn't have a high enough SAT according to someone on Twitter.

UA has of course a much easier acceptance policy than UCLA.

I bet it has to do with his transcripts from the Phillipines

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MrBug708 wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/danielbaldon ... 0803385345

So I'm guessing he can now run up and down the court more than four times before desperately fouling someone in order to get a whistle and taken out of the game? What diet was he on at UCLA? All French fries all the time?

Fat Sal's but had the same problem in high school and at Georgetown

Bolden is unable to get his academics in order and has left UCLA

Would he have been a starter?

Who knows since he didn't play last year

MrBug708 wrote:Who knows since he didn't play last year

Bolden?

Pretty sure Bolden played quite a bit last year.

He didn't play as a frosh.

LA Times:

Bolden averaged 4.6 points and 4.8 rebounds per game last season, starting in 11 of his 31 games.

Merkin wrote:He didn't play as a frosh.

LA Times:

Bolden averaged 4.6 points and 4.8 rebounds per game last season, starting in 11 of his 31 games.

No, he didn't play as a frosh, but he did play last year. Bug said he didn't, which is wrong.

Merkin wrote:He didn't play as a frosh.

LA Times:

Bolden averaged 4.6 points and 4.8 rebounds per game last season, starting in 11 of his 31 games.

I don't even know what I was thinking. Rare faux pas for me, I apologize.

Just have a drink Bug.

Less artsy, more fartsy!

One of the all time best episodes.

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MrBug708 wrote:http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/66 ... q4dYCXzbk/

Bruins are going 40-0 this season, mark it down.

Cool

scumdevils86 wrote:

MrBug708 wrote:http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/66 ... q4dYCXzbk/

Bruins are going 40-0 this season, mark it down.

Heh.

Lost to an Australian team who also had Majok and Devin Williams

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/ ... r2rjr.html" target="_blank

"Mentally, I'm always the same," he said. "With the experiences that I've had here the last three seasons, I have a strong mental game. I don't worry about that. I can start a game missing who knows how many shots, but I have the confidence in myself that I'm going to end up hitting shots. It's just about finding good ones."
-Bryce Alford

MrBug708 wrote:Lost to an Australian team who also had Majok and Devin Williams

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/ ... r2rjr.html" target="_blank

"Mentally, I'm always the same," he said. "With the experiences that I've had here the last three seasons, I have a strong mental game. I don't worry about that. I can start a game missing who knows how many shots, but I have the confidence in myself that I'm going to end up hitting shots. It's just about finding good ones."
-Bryce Alford

Wow, that quote brings back nightmares. And not of Bryce Alford.

He's like Dory from Finding Nemo....

"Just keep shooting, just keep shooting..."

Excellent troll. Five stars.

We went from not being involved to leading to being eliminated from his top 10. He might have spooked Hands so I'm not that disappointed

Duval is much better than Hands.

Heh.

Re:Duval

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"Great school but too many guards."

Except that when he enrolls, we'll have three guards on the roster and we start three guards.

Kris WIlkes?

Kevin Love matches Russell Westbrook's record donation to UCLA:

The UCLA athletic department said Love's unspecified donation announced Tuesday matches the amount Russell Westbrook gave last December, which was the largest by a former Bruins basketball player in school history. In return for his gift, UCLA's strength and conditioning facility, to be located in the new Mo Ostin Basketball Center, will be named for Love.


nice, ucla is going to have a love muscle facility on campus.


in related news, former bruin josh smith made a nominal donation to the ucla athletic department, despite transferring to g'town. the josh smith feeding trough is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in fall 2017.

Nice to see UCLA hanging on to their 2nd tier status. One day, maybe they'll crack the top 3 of the Pac.

Nice to see RC97 still obsessed with UCLA.

MrBug708 wrote:Nice to see RC97 still obsessed with UCLA.

Heh.

It is indeed nice, isn't it? Go Bruins! We can finish better than 10th this year!

That's a big pick up for Alford. He's gotta keep Cali kids home and not let them go to UA, Kansas, etc.

Bug, what happened to Ike?

The next Ryan Appleby!

Merkin wrote:The next Ryan Appleby!

I take it there was someone at 16/5.1/3.7? Fucking hilarious...

He's the only Power 5 player to average 16.1 ppg, 5.2 assists, 3.8 rebounds and shoot under 40% from the floor (in fact, he has never shot over that mark in his collegiate career).

Bryce could find his niche as a 6th man this season, if he can be counted on to knock down a couple quick threes off the bench. If he's given free rein as usual, it'll get ugly for them. They have too many high percentage shooters now for Bryce to be chucking 15 to 20 shots per game.

He aint giving up that alpha role and neither is daddy. He's the coaches son who ruins the chemistry for the rest of the team, we have all played with one before. And he loves to show up when they play Arizona.

Bryce Alford has spent three years as the starting PG. Daddy will try to split PG minutes between his baby boy and the golden child. In truth it should be Aaron Holiday starting at point (the kid can score, pass, and defend... more than you can say about anyone else on the team) but sadly he'll be the man relegated from starting to the bench this year. Alford playing Lonzo off ball will be amazingly horrific to watch, as Lonzo can't shoot, can't defend, and doesn't know how to operate in a half court set or really do anything without the ball in his hands.

They're fucked.

Zero wrote:Bug, what happened to Ike?

Out for up to 2 months. Too bad really because I think he's the best out of the three recruits

I wonder if Alford can convince Gary Trent to join Kris Wilkes?

Yeah, Scheer is hinting that UCLA is about to load up.

Can't imagine Alford walking away from that kind of talent now. I'd like to see him with his blindspot on the team

Better sign them up now before the implosion with all the ego's happens on the court.

Traffic must be really bad tonight