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This is the first year I watched most of the women’s games so I can’t really tell if they had bad strategy. I know they struggled with closing games out but I thought that was because of so many freshman. I don’t blame them with South Carolina strategy because South Carolina was so big and better than us. But we did pick up 2 players that would help with getting muse and Betts that will solve some of our problems against tall teams.

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Apr 19, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023

First of all, I want to say that I love the women's basketball team and Coach Close is one of the nicest people I have ever met but I have to admit that it's a bit hard watching their games sometimes because of the long droughts in scoring and what seems to be CCC's lack of adjustments against the top opponents. Also we now have our bigs but we don't seem to have a consistent 3pt shooter. Charisma is a good experienced leader and will go on hot streaks to win games for us but she also has had a few games where she shoots us out of games and her overall averages of 39%fg/29%3pt fg needs improvement (see Caitlin Clark at 47%/39%) and Camryn hasn't made a 3pt shot her entire 4 year career. Plus Kiki was at 22% so the #1 need is a 3pt shooter imho, basically a David Singleton equivalent.

PS I made a comment a few days ago in the NIL article about Troy Aikman's recent tweet saying an on campus stadium would be "a game-changer" and there I referenced Joe's insightful article from last year and I think that needs revisiting since Troy seems so adamant about building one on campus. And look at the reasoning and concepts from this tweet responding to Troy of what the stadium might look like:

https://twitter.com/888_BB_888/status/1648800694302830592

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Add Lauryn Betts.

DD, you crack me up the way you diplomatically cover all bases. "The time is now" and "It's officially prove it season," yet "I am not calling for Cori Close to be on the hot seat." Smooth.

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Thanks for the post on UCLA Women’s Basketball, DD!

For those interested in volleyball, please keep an eye on the Men’s Volleyball team. The Bruins are currently #1 in the nation after winning the conference title and sweeping Stanford in the conference tournament final. I will be stunned if UCLA is not the top seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament, and I fully expect the Bruins to reach the final to play either Penn State or Hawai’i for the national title.

Go BRUINS!

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