Father knows best how to irritate his son. It happens whenever UCLA Coach Steve Alford, whose pure jump shot launched a legion of copycats in Indiana driveways, critiques Bryce in practice about the family talent.
Maybe Steve feels Bryce took a bad shot or passed up one he should have taken. Depending on Steve’s tone and Bryce’s mood, the son can take on a persona seldom seen from the senior shooting guard outside Pauley Pavilion. Kory Alford, Bryce’s older brother and the team’s analytics and video coordinator, calls it “Angry Bryce.”
“When he gets mad at me for shooting when I feel like that’s my strength and knowing he’s one of the best all-time in that category,” Bryce said of his father, “something about it just kind of sticks in my brain and it doesn’t resonate real well with me.