Los Angeles – It is difficult to imagine the team that does not show active and focus on a team of rivalry. Especially a team that had more to play.
But the six-game winning streak UCLA compiled before losing to Bazar last week? This is the old news, getting smaller in the rear view mirror.
The chance to return to the NCAA tournament, and Mick Cronin gives his 12th direct trip to march madness (if you forgive on 2020, when there was no tournament due to Covid -19)? It hangs by the thinning of the thread. The USC, which played out of the controversy for a large bid weeks ago, was probably extinguished that it was a great hope of the opponent and at the same time with a 62–56 decision in Poly Pavilian on Saturday night, which was much more confident than the final score.
“There is only one way that we can create a tournament,” he said. “You will win the conference tournament by my mathematics.”
But this may be less than at least their concerns, after a discouraged loss and approach during the week of practice that carries it forward.
“This is a simple game – the team that plays hard, usually wins,” said Chronin. “He worked very hard to us. They were more physical. He had humility. They came here in search of redemption. We had no humility. Show me someone who is not humble, and I show you that someone is getting ready to be humble.
“We had the worst week of the season’s practice. I failed badly to prepare my team for the fight that was coming today. And I am completely embarrassed. I apologize to the people wearing four letters. Yes, we are struggling to make really open shots, but it has nothing to do with all the items that I talked about. The batting team usually wins the game, and they won the battle in every way. We were terrible. ,
Exhibit A: Cronin mentioned that before the game, the highest priority listed at the locker room board was to put clamps on the boogie Ellis of Trozons.
“Don’t let him shoot,” Chronin said. “Kill someone else. How will he work? ,
Alice had 18 points in Halftime, 6-for-10 on shooting and 3 from 3-point Country 3. He ended with 24. Meanwhile, UCLA guards were 5 for 17 from the ground in the first half, 7 for 35 for the game with 11 turnover. And after using 15–1 runs at the end of the first half to tie the game 34–34, the UCLA did not score a point to return again to the first 7:15 of the second half.
“We missed our first five shots (after Haftime), so we came out of the flat without any energy,” said Edem Bona.
It was 15–1 runs, Chronin said, “He felt the only time during the game that his team worked hard.” Otherwise, “We let them run what they wanted to run. We did not take anything from them.”
The signs in the leading days of the game were clearly, and Chronin felt that he had to “place people on the treadmill, shout, shout and shout and run your team a day ago, when you were playing your rival in front of your biggest crowd of the season when you were playing your rival … I should calm them down.”
Will this be the kind of experience that can attract the attention of your players for the final four regular season games and conference tournaments? Perhaps. Probably not.
“You would assume that they are extremely humble” said Chronin, after a loss, Chronin said, he said, “he did not expect him to take it as hard as he had.”
“I am not going to talk to anyone tonight,” he said. “I am going to hate myself, the work I did. The only person I am talking to tonight is my dog, okay? and that’s it. I have a recruitment in the city, so somehow I have to rally tomorrow.
“They are not me. Like, they are not you. They are not just. They are children. I mean, I hope they were completely embarrassed, and they should be. I don’t know if this is so. … there are some people (who will take it hard). Other people will go out. You know, I am responsible for eating four people and laughing tonight with my girlfriend. Thats just the way it is.”
These days, children, isn’t it?
Matrix that will eventually be used to determine large -scale teams, both LA are very unfortunate for schools. Before Saturday night, the UCLA was ranked 107th in the net rating, one of the primary equipment of the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee, uses to evaluate potential teams, while the USC was in 108th position. Both were detected after Saturday’s results, nor is it close to the area that will qualify for the 36 AT-big berths of the tournament.
The UCLA is 14–13, but when you win a Maura Classic on Division II Chamined, it is a .500 team. He is still in fourth position in PAC-12 at 9–7, and ‘Vagas is in position for the first day bye, but his four remaining conferences include the second place in the second place in the game Washington State (12-5) and the first place at home are the first place against Arizona (12–4).
The USC (11–16, 5–11) is currently ranked 11th and will have to win four games to go back to march madness in ‘Vegas’ in four days. It can be argued that his NCAA tournament was equivalent on Saturday night at the Poly Pavilion.
Trojan played like this. Bruce did not do, and it was shown.
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