UCLA Basketball News Roundup: Good Hands and a Bad Foot

I watched last night’s win by the UCLA Bruins over the Stanford Cardinal in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament with my Bruin buddy that I have been watching games together with for over 30 years. I told him that Bartow was the hardest coach to figure out that I had ever watched. His rotations don’t have a pattern that I can’t discern and, in the pregame interview, he stated that the key was playing Brown 30+ minutes. I was expressing my frustration that this is a game he should play man-to-man not zone and Brown can’t play man.