IMO looking at this match up I think a few things are very important tonight. Hopefully we come out and start a bit faster than yesterday. Offensively we need good ball movement as well as player movement. One thing California always does well is play defense and standing around or too much individual dribbling makes their job easier. As long as we do that and have our normal 2-3 guys (different 2-3 often) shooting the rock well we should be fine.
Defensively, we need to stay in front of Charlie Moore, stay with Bird who has been shooting very well lately and keep Rabb off the offensive glass. Rebounding is going to be important so all 5 guys need to hit the glass. A Captain Obvious thought is we need to avoid foul trouble with Brooks, Bell and Boucher especially.
One big advantage will be this is their 3rd game in 3 days which although Martin plays quite a few guys should benefit us. I can't imagine looking past Cal. but that has to be avoided also.
Just a few quick thoughts of what should be a somewhat comfortable win!!
GO DUCKS!
P.S.- UCLA could have and maybe should have lost last night. If USC shoots FT's like they normally do they would have beat the Bruins. Hopefully if we play them in the Championship they play like last night cuz' we would win relatively easy IMO. I have a feeling Arizona is going to beat the Bruins tonight although that is mainly going off last night where the Bruins as I said looked very beatable!!
Defensively, we need to stay in front of Charlie Moore, stay with Bird who has been shooting very well lately and keep Rabb off the offensive glass. Rebounding is going to be important so all 5 guys need to hit the glass. A Captain Obvious thought is we need to avoid foul trouble with Brooks, Bell and Boucher especially.
One big advantage will be this is their 3rd game in 3 days which although Martin plays quite a few guys should benefit us. I can't imagine looking past Cal. but that has to be avoided also.
Just a few quick thoughts of what should be a somewhat comfortable win!!
GO DUCKS!
P.S.- UCLA could have and maybe should have lost last night. If USC shoots FT's like they normally do they would have beat the Bruins. Hopefully if we play them in the Championship they play like last night cuz' we would win relatively easy IMO. I have a feeling Arizona is going to beat the Bruins tonight although that is mainly going off last night where the Bruins as I said looked very beatable!!
