Needing urgency
UCLA freshman center Kevin Love spoke last week about needing urgency, or it will cost the Bruins come NCAA Tournament time.
After Saturday's win against Oregon in which the Bruins trailed by 11 points in the second half, he spoke about it again.
"I don't s necessarily think it's a good thing,'' Love said. "We can't be so off and on like that or else we're going to lose a game when it counts. It's not like the Oregon State game. We had to find ways to get motivated and we did.
"This game, we kind of waited too long. We still won, but we let them get up 11. We didn't have any intensity on defense. We did wait until 11, 12 minutes were left in the second half to really pick it up and then we decided to play. that's something where we're going to have to play all 40 minutes if we want to go where we want to go."
Give Lorenzo some more time on the floor. I bet he feels some urgency since this will be his last go around. The other players at least have the option of returning.
I think Fan4Life is exactly right, get Mata-Real out there some more. Play him the same time as Love if need be as a power forward. Lorenzo brings intensity, which we seemed to feed off of in the past.
I agree...mata and alfred are our spark/energy guys...they should get more minutes earlier in the game to set the level of intensity we play at....
why dont we just start every game with a westbrook youtube dunk...that seems to set everyone off
I agree with both comments, LMR really added great intensity with his hussle, shot blocking and body sacrificing, his level of grit is well appreciated. While I think very highly of Kevin and love his game, at times on Saturday it seemed as though the team played better w/o him with Lorenzo in. Two more home games for him, and he'll be missed.