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UCLA/FLA
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Fla. dropped 73 on them last year
May not mean a hill beans.
I certainly will NOT play this Gator team under
Made that frigin' dumb ass move today..:com:
good luck to all........
May not mean a hill beans.
I certainly will NOT play this Gator team under
Made that frigin' dumb ass move today..:com:
good luck to all........
UCLA/Florida '06? Ah, yes, I remember it well...
I made a large play on the under...the game was looking like an easy under finish (129 was the total, I think), until last 10 minutes...Bruins felt it slipping away and started taking quicker shots.
The game went over, finally, in the last 45 seconds, when Florida was sent to the line after a meaningless intentional foul given by Mata.
Looking back on the game, yes the Gators killed Bruins from beyond the arc, but Noah was on fire, too. Florida big men passed easily out of the low double-teams, found the shooters, who converted the open shot opportunities.
Bruins got a good game from Jordan Farmar (now a Laker reserve), and that was about it. Aflalo was a bust, as were the others now gone (Hollis and Bozeman are riding pine in the NBA).
What is different this year? Well, Ship is back healthy, and the team plays better D than last year.
I made a large play on the under...the game was looking like an easy under finish (129 was the total, I think), until last 10 minutes...Bruins felt it slipping away and started taking quicker shots.
The game went over, finally, in the last 45 seconds, when Florida was sent to the line after a meaningless intentional foul given by Mata.
Looking back on the game, yes the Gators killed Bruins from beyond the arc, but Noah was on fire, too. Florida big men passed easily out of the low double-teams, found the shooters, who converted the open shot opportunities.
Bruins got a good game from Jordan Farmar (now a Laker reserve), and that was about it. Aflalo was a bust, as were the others now gone (Hollis and Bozeman are riding pine in the NBA).
What is different this year? Well, Ship is back healthy, and the team plays better D than last year.
Here's an article regarding UCLA's memories of last year's game...
Los Angeles Times
Monday, March 26, 2007
AFFLALO IS PLEASED WITH SHOT AT GATORS
UCLA guard welcomes chance to play Florida again after last year's loss in the title game.
By Diane Pucin
Times Staff Writer
Arron Afflalo would never disrespect an opponent, so it was a difficult question as to which team he preferred to face next after the UCLA Bruins were done celebrating their advancement to Saturday's Final Four.
Afflalo wouldn't know until about 18 hours later than he and the Bruins would get a rematch of the 2006 national championship game in which UCLA lost to Florida, 73-57.
Since that game, UCLA has lost five times, but in no game have the Bruins been as completely dominated offensively and defensively for 40 minutes as they were in Indianapolis a year ago, when they trailed the Gators by 11 points at halftime and never could get much closer.
It was as if Afflalo was rewinding a video of that game, grimacing at the memory of the raucous shimmy dance done by Florida's Corey Brewer and Taurean Green, of the primal celebratory screams and extravagant chest thumping done by Joakim Noah, of the way Al Horford contested every UCLA pass and how Lee Humphrey seemed to make every three-point shot. And Afflalo didn't make a basket for the first 21 minutes and when he did, the game was over.
So while Afflalo was gracious in saying he would enjoy an all-Pacific 10 Conference semifinal if Oregon won, the urge for revenge, for the chance to prove the Gators are not so obviously better than UCLA caused Afflalo to say of Florida, "I would love to play them again."
He will get that chance...
Los Angeles Times
Monday, March 26, 2007
AFFLALO IS PLEASED WITH SHOT AT GATORS
UCLA guard welcomes chance to play Florida again after last year's loss in the title game.
By Diane Pucin
Times Staff Writer
Arron Afflalo would never disrespect an opponent, so it was a difficult question as to which team he preferred to face next after the UCLA Bruins were done celebrating their advancement to Saturday's Final Four.
Afflalo wouldn't know until about 18 hours later than he and the Bruins would get a rematch of the 2006 national championship game in which UCLA lost to Florida, 73-57.
Since that game, UCLA has lost five times, but in no game have the Bruins been as completely dominated offensively and defensively for 40 minutes as they were in Indianapolis a year ago, when they trailed the Gators by 11 points at halftime and never could get much closer.
It was as if Afflalo was rewinding a video of that game, grimacing at the memory of the raucous shimmy dance done by Florida's Corey Brewer and Taurean Green, of the primal celebratory screams and extravagant chest thumping done by Joakim Noah, of the way Al Horford contested every UCLA pass and how Lee Humphrey seemed to make every three-point shot. And Afflalo didn't make a basket for the first 21 minutes and when he did, the game was over.
So while Afflalo was gracious in saying he would enjoy an all-Pacific 10 Conference semifinal if Oregon won, the urge for revenge, for the chance to prove the Gators are not so obviously better than UCLA caused Afflalo to say of Florida, "I would love to play them again."
He will get that chance...
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