The three points of Skyy Clark were well outside the brand with about eight minutes in the game, giving fans another chance of freeing more vitriol.
“Skyy you suck!” sang the students of Illinois who felt in the head by the UCLA The departure of the guard of their beloved team almost two years ago.
The Illini were nonetheless indulgent on the ground.
Standing with ease and disturbing each UCLA player in addition to Tyler Bilodeau, the Illinois put an end to the sequence of victories of almost a month of Bruins Tuesday evening after having resisted an epic return in which UCLA missed One more stroke the rest of the match.
By dragging 16 points with less than five minutes to play, the UCLA closed its two years after making 10 consecutive shots, including a three -point Clark pointer with 28 seconds on the left which momentarily silenced its criticism.
But after having extended their advance to three with a frank throw, the Illini hung a critical offensive rebound when the 7 feet Tomislav Ivisic turned the ball to a teammate with six seconds. The Bruins were forced to be mistaken again and two other Francs Illini throws sealed their fate during A loss of 83-78 Inside the State Farm Center.
The defense of the UCLA was too flexible to allow the Ellini to draw 50.9% on the way at the end of the sequence of victories of seven matches of the Bruins. A big problem was the inability of UCLA Guards to stay in front of their man, which led them several times to be beat the dribbling.
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“We were exposed defensively tonight,” said UCLA coach Mick Cronin after his team fell to 18-7 in total and 9-5 in Big Ten“And different guys cannot keep the ball.”
The Illinois (17-8, 9-6) was also the much more difficult team, exceeding the UCLA by 13 while entering 10 offensive rebounds.
Bilodeau finished with 25 points, making nine of the 17 shots and seven of the 12 three points, while fueling a return which seemed unlikely given the way in which the illini obtained almost everything they wanted offensively.
Goalkeeper Kasparas Jakucionis scored 24 points to lead Illinois and Ivisic added 16 on the strength to make four of the six three points. Clark suggested that communication problems in the middle of the din of a crowd of 15544 contributed to the defensive breakdowns.
“We have abandoned a lot of easy buckets that do not change (on the screens), especially on guarding stuff,” said Clark. “On stuff like one by four (positions), things that we usually do. When the crowd is inside, it’s noisy, it’s difficult to hear, and just a few things that we have to pick up and repair. “”
The Bruins offensive also flouted, especially at the start of the game when there was little ball movement but a lot of difficult blows. Cronin finally identified a program that could make fire and make stops, which led to the big race of his team.
But key ventilation occurred when the UCLA goalkeeper Dylan Andrews allowed the Illinois counterpart Dylan Boswell to divide a trap, leading to a pass causing a ivisic dunk with 17 seconds to do.
Sebastian Mack of the UCLA (11 points) ATTER with two free throws with 11 seconds to do before the final sequence condemned the hopes back from the Bruins.
Goalkeeper Kobe Johnson added 14 points for Bruins, but striker Eric Dailey Jr. had five silent points and the Aday Mara center was not aimed in just eight minutes while fighting the persistent effects of an alleged case norovirus.
Clark’s return to the court he called to the house was not calm. The students were on the player who spent his first season here from the moment they spotted it before the match.
“About!” The students sang before making him sing while he was pulling free free training throws in front of them.
As if that were not enough, two students positioned themselves behind the basket of the UCLA scribbled messages on white tables.
“# 55 5 teams 5 years” A message read, referring to Clark playing in a series of schools.
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“When you leave, Skyy knows where the door is,” reads another message.
Clark did not fuel the taunts, remaining without expression.
“I had just listened to him,” he said after finishing with nine points and seven assists.
There was another more pressing irritant for Bruins. Leaving a section in which they took care of the ball at a historic level, committing only three reversals in consecutive matches for the first time since the statistics were followed from the 1976-77 season, the Bruins n ‘were not almost as meticulous with their ball brand.
When Andrews lost the ball to conclude a stretch shot by her team, Ucla had her fourth turnover and only 6:10 had passed. The Bruins were much better the rest of the game, ending with eight reversals.
With his team, which only dragged 31-25 in the middle of the match despite a fairly terrible performance, Cronin turned to his bench and applauded in the encouragement while his players left the field for the locker room.
They would not be in a good mood next time they will go there, students serenade Clark with a last song.
“Bye-bye Skyy!”
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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