UCLA men’s basketball coach Steve Alford held his weekly press conference today, and while I really wanted to title this article, “What the $%#@ Happened in Oregon?”, I didn’t think that would be very appropriate. The media started in by asking about how we seem to be getting off to a slow start in games as we did against both Colorado and Oregon. Without really giving much of an answer, Alford said they are discussing starting games at a quicker pace. Excellent. I hadn’t thought of discussing doing things the right way.
Missing three players came up yet again, and Alford actually said that is no excuse—they are going on the road with eight scholarship players and they’ve basically paid the price for poor play.