Anyway, vs. the Trojans
| Koprivica | 22 |
| Harthun | 10 |
| Capers | 8 |
| Lodwick | 8 |
| Forrest | 2 |
| Baynes | 0 |
| Casto | 0 |
| Rochestie | -10 |
| Harmeling | -16 |
| Thompson | -24 |
If we're looking at positives here, it's pretty impressive that we were able to keep it as close as we did when Thompson is having an off night. In the first half, Baynes missed a dunk and two 2-footers. He makes those and we're down 2 instead of 8 going into halftime and it's a completely different ballgame (one we had no business being in). Casto was night and day. In his first 6 quarters against Taj, DC looked lost and Taj was going to continue to do whatever he wanted. However, in that second half, D'Angelo still had some slipups on the defensive end of the floor (but some of those can be attributed to his teammates), he put together some fantastic post moves against one of the better interior defenders in the conference. Where the hell did those come from?
Looking ahead to our carnage at noon, here's how we looked the last time we played the Bruins:
| "+ / -" | minutes | |
| Koprivica | +14 | 13 |
| Forrest | +10 | 31 |
| Baynes | +4 | 34 |
| Lodwick | 0 | 2 |
| Thompson | -4 | 37 |
| Rochestie | -6 | 38 |
| Capers | -6 | 27 |
| Casto | -16 | 15 |
We're probably not going to get another superhuman effort from Forrest, yet they're probably not going to get another superhuman effort from Drago either. Klay's gotta be huge this afternoon to keep this close, and Baynes has to take advantage of UCLA's lack of size early.
If I were Coach Sexy, I'd roll out a lineup with Taylor, Marcus and Nik on the wings and Caleb and Baynes down low. I'd have D'Angelo on a very short leash based on his defensive inadequacies against UCLA's ball rotation last time around.
Harmeling can stay on the bench again.
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