Steve Alford has left the coach-speak world of clichés in Vegas for the two games of the Continental Tire Tournament. He called the UCLA Bruins’ Thanksgiving Day turkey of a game against Michigan State a “good thing.” Yesterday...well, let’s let Ben Bolch tell it from his story entitled: “Steve Alford’s impassioned lesson fails to translate into a Bruins’ victory as UCLA falls to North Carolina:”
The lead had been lost and it looked like the game might have been too when Steve Alford noisily went about making his points in the timeout huddle.