final 4 mins of essential/desperation helter-skelter ball, a 7-point deficit (i.e. a 3-possession game) is a veritable rout. Especially when you’re talking about a team that bangs its collective head against a scoring ceiling of 66 pts (2 of UCLA’s pts were scored by a Rutgers’ D tip-in.)
UCLA is simply incapable of scoring in bunches. You could play Harry Belafonte’s Banana song on an endless reel at practice and they still couldn’t relate to scoring in bunches.
We’re down to being able to score in only dribs and drabs. In basketball, a UCLA deficit is a bear to overcome given the inability to climb out of a hole with a team that can’t up their game to a scoring streak.
CMC’s presser will be interesting.
I won’t be watching….