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Dimitri Dorlis's avatar

Y'all, I'm pinning this up top. Learn to play nice or I stop giving you all post-game comments.

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Chenalex's avatar

I think the team played much better against Baylor than Illinois. They answered all of Baylor’s runs and didn’t wilt and traded leads with a far more experienced team. If it wasn’t for a couple of individual plays by Baylor players against good defense, ucla could’ve won but they still answered every dagger and every shot against a top5 team.

I think the problem early on this season isn’t the offense, but the defense. These aren’t howland-type grinding games in the 50s and 60s. We scored 70+ in every game this season and a Cronin team should be able to hold our opponents to a lower score. Baylor relied on 1on1 play and one long bomb of a 3 to win.

For those who say that Bailey isn’t given enough playing time, he played 30 minutes against Illinois and 21 against Baylor and scored a grand total of 6 points. He needs more development and confidence but to say that Cronin is misusing him by not giving him playing time or running plays for him is just using preconceived biases to bash him. And fwiw, Baylors star freshman also rode the bench for long stretches of the second half too.

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