Los Angeles – His life revolves around basketball, says boogie Ellis, and it is clear on his face.
For that life, years, the routine has been carefully manufactured – after practice, living later in cardinals and gold, living in summer, continuously honoring your shot, grinding in summer. When the routine leads to the results, the negativity leaks into the world vision of Ellis, easy to see in the last month as the USC season has slipped. I’m very strict on myselfAfter Thursday’s practice, Alice said; The way the ball bounces, it affects its position, and it has jumped many times in the USC last year.
“But you are strong,” Alice said on Thursday, Stoic. “keep pushing.”
He pushed a lot of tip in the poly pavilion on Saturday night, possibly his last game against bitter rival UCLA in a standout USC career. At several points, where it seemed that the USC could lean at the point of breakdown, through an end-of-huff implosian and late slopaness, he and fellow Cobe Kobe Johnson put Trojan together in a 62-56 victory-Lis finishing with 24 points on 9-18 shoots, a final performance as a final performance as a final performance. Gave.”
Apart from simple pride, there was little left for Alice and USC to play on Saturday night. In September, speaking to the media in a new year, Ellis rationed her reason as a “opportunity to win a national championship” for a comeback as a super-gender, a dream that has been collapsing for months. In March, the only shot of the USC decreased for one run through the PAC -12 tournament, as Ellis was surrounded by many injuries, especially in mid -January, a hamstring issue, excluded them for some sports and was fond of them for weeks when he returned.
“He came back, he was trying to play me,” Head coach Andy Enfield cracked the postgame on Saturday.
“That was not the bus – he had no explosives, no change of motion, no change in directions,” Enfield continued. “And I give him a lot of credit. He is very, very difficult young. ,
The feeling of urgency rips through his Jabs and cuts the screen against UCLA (PAC-12 14-13, 9-7), perhaps a USC senior realized the only game until his draft stock was not completely solid, perhaps a USC Senior who wanted to defeat UCla only what the last time could be. Ellis erupted the first half screen on an inbound, disappeared and fell to its right, reminiscent of Demian Lylad’s best work reminiscent of a triple in a shot. He later blown the lane below one possession, closing a floater to force a ballmate from Edem Bona of UCLA, Bruins coach Mick Chronin so much that he immediately indicated for a timeout.
Half left five minutes, Big Vincent Evuchuku – who stopped Bona all night – looked at the scoreboard. Alice had 17. It’s a cool 17Iwuchukwu remembered thinking.
“But man, the influence of boogie is just much bigger than crime,” Ivuchukvu said Postgame.
It was felt in the locker room, after the USC (11–16, 5–11 in PAC-12), the first half closed the half, their big dishonesty fell into the blisters as the UCLA scored 17–4 runs before the brake. Alice, understanding these Trozons, when the teams scored runs, often staggering that the second half has been asked to focus on obtaining quality shots in the second half.
And this was felt in the performance of Ellis in the second half, scored just six points on a variety of coat, but became strict in helping the USC ward to close Bruins in an ugly final frame. He finished with five boards, tied to a team to a USC game that is struggling to rebound largely, going into a throng and simply moving the ball away from Bruce at the beginning of the second half.
Ellis said, “I have let my team go down this year when it comes to rebounding … After coming here, I am really going to try to insist on helping boards,” Ellis said that the postgame, sometimes to pin the blame on her shoulders.
And when his shot was reduced several times in the second half, co-cum-captain Kobe Johnson stepped up, stole an important handful of the second-half theft and killed a huge corner with three minutes to play 11 with three minutes. This was enough to escape with a win, Alice first against UCLA in Pauli in her USC career. And a season of grit, for a moment, paid.
“I am glad,” Alice said the postgame, “that I am back in myself.”