Ucla Basketball

Lonzo Ball’s Dad Once Again Says His Son Is Better Than Steph Curry

... seems to say just about anything he wants wherever he goes, or to whoever goes to him (I see you TMZ). The father of Bruin point guard Lonzo Ball once again gave his outspoken opinion about his son during a telecast of the UCLA Basketball team. Sure the action was on the court as the Bruins were on their way to a 102-70 victory over the USC Trojans , but the show was in the stands as La Var Ball once again stated that Lonzo Ball was better than Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors. Related Story: UCLA Women's Basketball Takes Down #9 Washington. An interesting take, but one that does not exactly have any merit as Lonzo is still trying to finish his first year in college with the Bruins who are 2.5 games back of Arizona for the lead lead in the Pac-12 and Curry is a seven year NBA vet, a 4-time NBA All-Star, a two-time NBA MVP and an NBA Champion. More from Go Joe Bruin. UCLA Basketball: Bruins Need To DEFEND Pauley Pavilion 2 d ago. I understand La Var Ball’s belief in his son, but as a helicopter parent, he is an assault chopper. Though he ...

The Creator Of Ucla's Iconic Frisbee Cheer Fondly Remembers When He Did It His Way

... cheer, Larry “Frisbee” Davis would feel affirmation in the earsplitting response of Bruins students inside Pauley Pavilion. Yes, that’s a basketball. Yes, that’s the court. Yes, that’s the loooooosing team. As he watched a student perform his cheer last month during a game against Arizona, Davis experienced considerably less pleasure. He felt his raucous delight had turned into a hollow version of itself. “I’m sitting up there and the students are doing the cheer,” Davis said this week in a telephone interview, “and it’s terrible, absolutely terrible. Now the way they perform it, it’s an afterthought. It’s really an embarrassment. It’s nothing compared to what I started and what it became.”. The Frisbee Cheer has devolved, its inventor feels, into something more sterile and choreographed than originally intended. The student leading the cheer stands in one spot, holding a ...

Ucla Women’s Basketball Cruises Past Washington State, 67-48

... of play. All game long she played an aggressive game going to the glass and getting the rebounds. She ended up tying her record of 25 rebounds in a single game. She brought the same fire that she played with on Friday night against Washington over and over against Washington State. Washington State played a good game defensively. They applied pressure on the Bruins all game long. They played man-to-man coverage, hoping that would slow down UCLA’s powerhouse offense. At times, that would happen, but the Bruins found ways to make their shots. Offensively, the Cougars could not get it done. From the three-point line, they had a game to forget. They only made a handful of shots from the arc even though they took many attempts. Washington State was also missing three players due to injury including freshman Chanelle Molina, who is recovering from an ACL tear. UCLA played much better this week. The Bruins need to continue this kind of play with them to Arizona on their final road trip of the season. The Bruins’ defense needs to continue to shut down opponents and the offense needs to play the aggressive, yet smart style ...

Kadeem Allen Expected Back Vs. L.a. Schools; Dusan Ristic’s Return Date Unclear

... his right pinky finger in practice on Tuesday and he received seven stitches after “his bone popped out of his finger.”. Allen was in sweats when he sat out against WSU, but he went through warmups against Washington, initially making it appear as if he was going to play. “In that situation, it’s important that you listen to the trainer, not Kadeem,” Miller said. “Kadeem just wants to play, but it wasn’t in Kadeem’s best interest to play. He could’ve really hurt himself, so we’re not going to put him at risk. Having him go through warmups was more about the future. It was good for him to go through warmups because we anticipate him making a full return this coming week.”. While Miller seems convinced Allen will be back to face the L. A. schools next week, he was not as sure about Dusan Ristic ’s status. UA’s starting center suffered a “grade 1” ankle sprain against Washington State on Thursday which forced ...

Ucla Basketball’s Old Man Isaac Hamilton

... "Frisbee" Davis, a 61-year-old attorney who created the Frisbee Cheer as a student at UCLA in the late-seventies. Davis gives a history of how the cheer came to be. Davis got the idea while watching Pepperdine water polo players perform a similar cheer in support of their school’s volleyball team during a match against UCLA. He later learned it had been performed previously at a Pepperdine swim meet, where a student stood up and asked, "Are those the starting blocks? Is that a diving board?". Davis did something that made the cheer entirely his own. He copyrighted it. The unveiling of the cheer at Pauley Pavilion during the 1976-77 season was modest, Davis starting with a small group of classmates before it quickly mushroomed to the entire student section. Davis was soon given access to the court, allowing him to engage the whole crowd. Also, he doesn’t ...

Energy From Students And Fans Was A Game Changer

... reduced and the team is spending more time on film and in the weight room. He was asked if the current losing streak to Southern Cal has resonated with anyone (worst since the 1940’s, according to one member of the media), and he said he didn’t think there was much motivation behind it (why on Earth not?). He went on to say that with the in-city rivalry and caliber of both teams (he feels Southern Cal should be ranked), they just want to win. He said something else that was a bit disturbing though.he said. I mean, if you want to talk history, ten national championships in an eleven, twelve year span, you know, at one time, so we’re not going to do that. Well, not with that attitude. There was more talk about a silly Enfield quote (“If you want to go slow, go to UCLA”), and he said he doesn’t worry too much about what other coaches say about us. I don’t like how he downplays the rivalry. We should want to tear these guys apart. But I digress. The level of talent T. J. Leaf brings to the team was discussed, Alford mentioned some amazing statistics: not only is T. J. leading the league in field goal ...

Reset Of Ucla Hoops Recruiting

... would make it 13 scholarship players on the roster. Of course, someone else could leave the program and UCLA could have one more scholarship available.  There's a slim possibility of that happening and UCLA then also taking Walker, but we wouldn't be surprised if Walker did officially visit in case of this scenario. 2018 Recruiting. If everyone eligible to be on the roster besides Leaf stays for the 2018 season, UCLA will have three scholarships to give. But that's a big 'if.". We have removed Leaf, because if he does return for his sophomore season he's almost certainly gone after that. We think it's unlikely Aaron Holiday  stays for his senior season. Again, whenever we say this about a player it prompts long threads on the BRO Forum about whether a player is ready, would it behoove him to stay for his senior year, etc.  Again, like we always say, what might make logical sense to a fan doesn't necessarily to a college player and his family.  From what we've heard, there's a very good ...

Old Man’ Isaac Hamilton Getting It Done For Bruins

... recruit and an accomplished college player. “There were bloody noses and fights that broke out when they’d play in the back yard,” Greg Hamilton said. “They knew they weren’t coming back in the house if they were crying,” Karen Hamilton added. “They learned to bite their T-shirt so the tears would fall inside. That’s where Isaac got his toughness, but to this day if somebody slips, he’ll help them up and take them to lunch.”. Hamilton is an ideal combination of passive and aggressive on a team chock-full of scoring options. His 14.3 points per game make him one six UCLA players averaging double figures for the highest scoring team in the country. Despite playing just three years at UCLA — Hamilton sat out his freshman season after a messy transfer before playing a single game at UTEP due to his late grandmother’s health problems - he is 35 th on the school’s prestigious career scoring list. If he meets his average and the Bruins play at least two games in the Pac-12 and NCAA tournaments, he will finish in the top 25. A fourth season would have likely landed him ...

Ucla Walk-on Smith Cut His Teeth With The Women's Team

... smiled. “He’s from South Central L. A., and every kid who grows up there, it’s their goal to play at UCLA,” Farrow says. “It just took him a little longer to get there, and he took a different route. But man, when he got that opportunity, we were all super hyped.”. Despite Smith’s limited statistical contribution, Steve Alford awarded Smith with a scholarship before this season. Smith cried when sharing the news with his parents, conscious of how stressful it had been on his family to help him pay for school while he pursued basketball. Smith understands that being happy with sitting on the bench might seem crazy to outsiders. But as it turns out, being part of the UCLA basketball program is everything he imagined. The transfer rule is broken, but it could be used as a recruiting edge. “My favorite moment was from this season,” Smith says. “We were playing at Kentucky and it was just ridiculous, that atmosphere was crazy. After we won that game, everyone is so excited and coach [Alford] runs into the locker room, runs right up to me and we’re in each other’s faces, happy and smiling and yelling and ...

Ucla Men’s Basketball Attendance Its Best In 19 Years

... that,” Alford said. “That’s been the best environment that one of my teams had a chance to play in.”. Saturday’s crowd may have challenged for that title amidst the “blueout.” UCLA provided blue shirts to each fan in attendance, pulling out all the stops in an effort to avoid its first five-game losing streak to USC since the 1940 s. Saturday was the most expensive ticket for a USC game at Pauley Pavilion in three years with an average ticket price of $222 on the secondary market, according to Ticket IQ. None of the team’s previous three meetings averaged more than $132. The cheapest ticket to get in the door on Saturday was $110, more than twice the price of the 2014 game at UCLA, which was previously the most expensive get-in price in the rivalry. Pauley Pavilion’s capacity is 13,800 since it was renovated prior to the 2012 season. UCLA averaged 8,073 fans last season, which ranked it 60 th in the country in attendance for the second consecutive year. The highest average attendance since the season after John Wooden retired was ...

One Former Ucla Champion Recognizes Current Team's Chemistry

... Edney, a senior on UCLA’s last championship team who returned in 2010 as director of operations. “We loved that stuff and it was genuine and we were as close off the court as on the court, and I think that’s a quality of this team, just how they get along off the court and it shows on the court.”. Like the present team, Edney’s Bruins featured a group of last-chance seniors who welcomed freshmen who could help them reach places they could not get alone. Newcomers Toby Bailey, J. R. Henderson and Kris Johnson created a winning blend alongside seniors Edney, Ed O’Bannon and George Zidek. “Our freshmen coming in elevated our game to another level,” Edney said. The same sentence applies to UCLA freshmen Lonzo Ball, TJ Leaf and Ike Anigbogu, who have provided the support that seniors Bryce Alford and Isaac Hamilton lacked last season on the way to a losing record. ...

Ucla Basketball Seeking Redemption After Usc Sweep

... recruits like Boatwright and leading scorer Jordan Mc Laughlin after Florida Gulf Coast’s Cinderella run in the 2013 NCAA tournament. The duo passed up scholarship offers from schools like Kansas, Indiana and, namely, UCLA. On the heels of its latest loss to USC, the Bruins brought in a recruiting class headlined by point guard Lonzo Ball that has transformed them into one of the most exciting acts in college basketball. UCLA has signed the consensus No. 2 recruiting class in the nation for 2017 and isn’t making things any easier in the living room for Enfield. “Since we walked in the door, we had to get competitive with them,” Enfield said. “Since the John Wooden days, they’ve been getting the top players to go to UCLA. We had to do our part to elevate and ramp up our program, so that national recruits and local recruits ...