[burger]

This may be the game where my faith/patience in Haase begins to turn. Were there halftime adjustments? I didn't see any. Did we have any discernable strategy to handle them in the paint or keep them out of it? Not that I could tell. We made Ucla look like a top flight team by letting them walk all over us basically at will.

I agree ~60% with you, but there is still a part of me that thinks that maybe we're just asking too much of a team playing on the road, missing its star point guard, playing freshmen for a total of 87 minutes (44% of all of our minutes), and with Ryan in his first game back after injury.

On the plus side, I love Okpala more every game.  What a great all-around player he's become.

[burger]

This may be the game where my faith/patience in Haase begins to turn. Were there halftime adjustments? I didn't see any. Did we have any discernable strategy to handle them in the paint or keep them out of it? Not that I could tell. We made Ucla look like a top flight team by letting them walk all over us basically at will.

I agree ~60% with you, but there is still a part of me that thinks that maybe we're just asking too much of a team playing on the road, missing its star point guard, playing freshmen for a total of 87 minutes (44% of all of our minutes), and with Ryan in his first game back after injury.

On the plus side, I love Okpala more every game.  What a great all-around player he's become.