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Tough game to watch but it seemed inevitable after the night before. Hopeful the stomach issues had to do with it, but ucla clearly need Riley. Not having Mac in there is also a big negative on defense.

As much as I hate timme… he and Chet outplayed the bruins as they had no interior response. On the outside, juzang Jules and jaquez looked atrocious on offense. Gonzaga has a lot of talent, and this game was over in the first 10 minutes. UCLA had a lot of open looks and couldn’t hit any of them. Most weren’t even close.

Hope this is more indication of a sick team as the last two games were really quite poor. I think it will help in the long run to get this out of the way and get back to what they’re good at… hard basketball.

I said I thought they looked arrogant, but perhaps it’s just them being sick. I feel like the team has a tendency to go 1:1 and put up shots way more than most d1 teams. I think that’s what I consider arrogance is more of a I can do this by myself approach. That’s the nba style. Doesn’t work as well in college against high quality opponents. You have to work a bit harder… when you don’t have energy it components the issue.

Timme is my least favorite ncaa player at this time. Right up there with Noah from Florida back in the day. UCLA has nothing on that level of arrogance. I’m excited to see him try to go pro and get destroyed. He needs to be put into place. If Chet is taking notes, he’ll be up there with timme on the all time most annoying players list

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They sucked tonight.

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Last year, our best game was a loss to Gonzaga. We played as close to our potential as any Bruin team in recent memory. And yet, we lost to Gonzaga. This year’s Gonzaga squad is better than last year’s. We didn’t come close to playing as well as last year. We will need to improve significantly and get a little lucky to win a rematch, even with Cody Riley. I did like the effort and energy from Watson and Clark.

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If these two teams face off in March, I'd rather be the team that lost this game.

That said, it was atrocious. The kind of game you throw out the tape and don't rewatch. Juzang was non existent. He only took 11 shots and it seemed like a lot less than that. Jaquez just had an off night....why did he shoot exactly twice as many shots as Juzang? This was his worse game in a long time. He uncharacteristically played a lot of hero ball, driving to nowhere circa Jules Bernard 2019. Speaking of Jules, he just had a terrible shooting night. Not much else to say about him. Tyger had no control over the game...the Zaga D controlled him. Really wish Singleton would have got more time early when it became clear Bernard was way off. Liked what I saw from Clark.

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This rematch was a convincing no-match and painful to watch. Coach Cronin was right--his team wasn't ready to compete (physically or mentally) against the top-ranked team in the nation. Bruins seem to be regressing during the past several games. Hope they can turn things around quickly and play more like a cohesive team on offense and defense.

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I also believe motivation by Gonzaga was a contributor. It is possible they had a grudge against us since we took them to overtime and the limit in the semi-final potentially leading them to being worn out for the final. They may figure that they should have won it all last year, but were drained in the final due the game with us, so payback for impacting them last year. Just a thought.

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