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#11 UCLA @ #8 Oregon - 1/03/21

Who will win this game?

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Cori Close loves the street ball style of play. Freshmen of Oregon getting a lesson on that style of play
 
Oregon tightening the thumbscrews. UCLA seems to be choking.
 
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According to gamecast, both teams turning the ball over.
 
Ouch. I thought Oregon was winning for sure.

Didn't look like UCLA was ever losing this game to me. The final score wasn't indicative of a close game.
 
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Good lessons for the rookies playing a quick, hands team. Saw some lazy passes get knocked away Or stolen. It ain’t high school anymore. Dugalic is a player. Looking forward to the next few years.
 
Plebe said:
UCLA once again foiling the narrative of those who insist on discounting them. They pretty much led the entire game here.
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The only ones I know discounting them were a couple of Stanford posters early on in the season
 
Floridaduck said:
Good lessons for the rookies playing a quick, hands team. Saw some lazy passes get knocked away Or stolen. It ain’t high school anymore. Dugalic is a player. Looking forward to the next few years.
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At this point in the season Dugalic has my most improved frosh award.
 
From when the game was tied at 71 both teams made error after error, so not a great finish, but an entertaining game to watch.

Interesting to see Graves prefer the Freshman in the fourth, when they made there 11-0 run to tie.

Dugalic and Pao Pao where great overall but made a couple of errors down the stretch.
  • Dugalic made no attempt to box out Onyenwere on her missed three, which lead to her rebound and go-ahead 2.
  • Pao Pao made to an extra pass to Dugalic for an open 3, but it would have been much better for her to take the shot after Shelley had already penetrated and kicked it out to her.
  • Pao Pao dribbled out most of the 7 secs on clock on the last possession for a contested shot in the lane.
 
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Figurehead said:
The only ones I know discounting them were a couple of Stanford posters early on in the season
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Twenty-three out of 26 survey respondents predicted an Oregon win here.

Others chimed in with emphatic predictions of a decisive Oregon advantage and win.
 
Plebe said:
Twenty-three out of 26 survey respondents predicted an Oregon win here.

Others chimed in with emphatic predictions of a decisive Oregon advantage and win.
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Probably because they know Cori Close? Worst waste of talent with past pac-12 teams she has had. Her coaching ummmm. Maybe they will hang a banner up with the final score.
 
maccca3232 said:
From when the game was tied at 71 both teams made error after error, so not a great finish, but an entertaining game to watch.

Interestingly to see Graves prefer the Freshman in fourth, when they made there 11-0 run to tie.

Dugalic and Pao Pao where great overall but made a couple of errors down the stretch.
  • Dugalic made no attempt to box out Onyenwere on her missed three, which lead to her rebound and go-ahead 2.
  • Pao Pao made to an extra pass to Dugalic for an open 3, but it would have been much better for her to take the shot after Shelley had already penetrated and kicked it out to her.
  • Pao Pao dribbled out most of the 7 secs on clock on the last possession for contested in the lane.
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Did you ever see Ionesco and Hebard their freshmen season. It was gross at times then
 
What was UCLA doing the last 25 seconds? The play by play shows 3 turnovers. Were they incapable of passing or dribbling against Oregon's pressure?
 
EricLA said:
What was UCLA doing the last 25 seconds? The play by play shows 3 turnovers. Were they incapable of passing or dribbling against Oregon's pressure?
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One of those turnovers was a super-quick 5-second in-bounds call. Another was Close having a guard inbound it to Onyenwere, then O loses the handle and loses the ball out of bounds, untouched.

I know UCLA is shorthanded (unless some more high school kids enroll), but it’s long term - pretty much they have what they’re gonna have. OTOH, Oregon was missing Chavez & Prince today. If they played again in a week I’d still take Oregon.
 
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TheFarmFan said:
I think Oregon wins if they can get to 70 points in the game, because UCLA has barely cracked the 70 point threshold and it's been against the worst teams in the conference.
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Well, I was wrong, but just barely! UCLA was able to squeeze out 73 points, which was just enough!
 
As an Oregon fan, I of course wish the Ducks had won, but, overall, I'm not really all that disappointed. The game was (I hope) a good lesson for the freshmen (and Sabally, as well, since she's really also a first-year player), who likely have never faced the kind of pressure/quickness UCLA brings to the table. Given that, I think they responded about as well as one could hope, and it seems to me no accident that Oregon played its best with at least 3 of them (sometimes 4, or 5 if you count Sabally) on the court. My major gripe, which I've said before, is Mikesell. Although I understand the reasoning in recruiting her, I think the team would be better off (later this season and long term) if her minutes were distributed, say, among Scherr, Parrish, and Dugalich. But, in any case, this is the first time around. (Stanford will likely be much worse.) And I expect things will be different when the teams meet again in LA (assuming that's allowed).
 
EricLA said:
What was UCLA doing the last 25 seconds? The play by play shows 3 turnovers. Were they incapable of passing or dribbling against Oregon's pressure?
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It was a disaster. Oregon needed to foul and instead of letting them Foul the team and go to the line, UCLA tried to dribble away and twice stepped out of bounds. This is where Cori earns her “poor coaching” moniker. She made the game close, no pun intended.
Plebe is right, virtually all of us predicted Oregon and while Oregon was missing Chavez and Prince, they still played 10 players to UCLA’s paltry 8 players including the HS girl who just joined the team.
Make no mistake, this was a great win for UCLA. Though I still think the KY-MSU game was better and higher scoring!
 
DefenseBB said:
It was a disaster. Oregon needed to foul and instead of letting them Foul the team and go to the line, UCLA tried to dribble away and twice stepped out of bounds. This is where Cori earns her “poor coaching” moniker. She made the game close, no pun intended.
Plebe is right, virtually all of us predicted Oregon and while Oregon was missing Chavez and Prince, they still played 10 players to UCLA’s paltry 8 players including the HS girl who just joined the team.
Make no mistake, this was a great win for UCLA. Though I still think the KY-MSU game was better and higher scoring!
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When you factor out the overtime period, the scoring was very similar. And never mind the fact that MSU's awful defense gifted KY most of their points in the last 15 minutes of the game.
 
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