Poor first half cost the Bears
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00:00 We had a bad first half.
00:04 We had a bad first half.
00:06 We did not do a good job taking care of the ball.
00:08 We got 13 points off our turnovers in the first half.
00:11 They had all the energy.
00:12 And we just were sluggish.
00:15 We were sluggish.
00:16 And give UCLA credit, they came out and blitzed us.
00:19 They dominated the first half.
00:21 We came back and fighted in the second half, but
00:22 it wasn't enough to get over the hump.
00:25 And so that's what it is.
00:28 And they made the plays when the plays needed to be made.
00:32 Let's do questions.
00:34 >> Mark, last game, you guys put a lot of energy and
00:38 you got this crowd revving you up.
00:40 How surprised are you, or
00:42 how do you explain the energy level in the first half?
00:45 >> We were just a step slow.
00:49 We were just a step slow.
00:51 I'll go back and watch the film.
00:52 I'll look at the reads that were being made.
00:54 I'll look at the reactions and things like that and really drill into it.
00:58 I don't have a good explanation right now,
00:59 because I thought yesterday's practice was phenomenal.
01:04 We had a good shoot around this morning.
01:06 And part of that, you can give credit to UCLA, because they came out ready to go.
01:13 Physicality, getting the 50/50 balls, and causing turnovers.
01:19 That being said, we can do a much better job.
01:20 >> Did you feel like the problems were mostly on offense in the first half?
01:23 >> I thought the problems were mostly playing very tentative.
01:27 And we had eight turnovers in the first half alone.
01:29 In the second half, we had three turnovers.
01:31 They had zero points off our turnovers.
01:33 But I felt like a big problem was, a few problems, turnovers and
01:37 a lack of ball movement, a lack of ball movement.
01:39 What we did see is we saw some early quick and bad shots.
01:44 And we saw some bad shots, and that typically happens when guys don't think
01:48 the ball's gonna get back to them.
01:50 And so the ball got a little too sticky tonight.
01:53 In the second half, it was much, much better.
01:56 the Deval government.