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UCLA Downs Long Beach State, 100-79
uclabruins.com | LOS ANGELES – Johnny Juzang scored a team-leading 25 points and Jules Bernard added 22 points to pace No. 2-ranked UCLA past Long Beach State, 100-79, before 7,129 fans in Pauley Pavilion on Monday evening.
Bernard connected on 8 of 11 shots and registered a career-high seven assists in the 21-point victory. He nailed 4 of 5 shots from 3-point distance as the Bruins improved to 3-0.
Juzang scored 10 points before the 15-minute mark in the first half. He finished the game having made 11 of 21 shots, added four rebounds and tallied a pair of assists.
Juzang and Bernard were among two of UCLA's five players to score in double figures. Jaime Jaquez Jr. finished with 17 points, Tyger Campbell added 15, and Jaylen Clark totaled 10.
Long Beach State's Joey Murray totaled a game-high 30 points, while Colin Slater finished with 27 points. Murray connected on 13 of 17 shots from the field.
Six different Bruins recorded at least one steal against Long Beach State (1-1). Five UCLA players had at least one block.
The Bruins forced 25 turnovers against Long Beach State, the most turnovers committed by any of UCLA's opponents since CSUN had 27 in the season-opening game on Nov. 12, 2010.
UCLA (3-0) led by a 48-45 margin at halftime and used an 11-2 scoring run to open the second half. Bernard was a spark plug for UCLA in that early run, hitting his first four shots as part of a 10-point half. UCLA utilized a balanced attack in the second half on Monday, as five players registered at least eight points (after the intermission).
The Bruins pushed ahead with a 7-0 scoring run, capped by a David Singleton 3-pointer at the 10:28 mark in the second half. That scoring run was sparked by an old-fashioned 3-point play from Clark, with 13:06 to play. His initial layup pushed the Bruins' cushion to 10 points. UCLA led by at least 10 points through the remainder of the contest.
The Bruins advantage swelled to 20 points on a 3-point basket from Campbell with 2:21 to play in the second half.
Long Beach State kept the margin close in the first half, thanks to strong shooting from its backcourt duo of Murray and Slater. Those two players combined for 37 of Long Beach State's 45 first-half points (making 16 of their first 20 shots, combined).
UCLA will conclude a season-opening four-game homestand against North Florida this Wednesday evening. Game time is 7:30 p.m. (PT). The Bruins' game will be televised by the Pac-12 Network.
Bernard connected on 8 of 11 shots and registered a career-high seven assists in the 21-point victory. He nailed 4 of 5 shots from 3-point distance as the Bruins improved to 3-0.
Juzang scored 10 points before the 15-minute mark in the first half. He finished the game having made 11 of 21 shots, added four rebounds and tallied a pair of assists.
Juzang and Bernard were among two of UCLA's five players to score in double figures. Jaime Jaquez Jr. finished with 17 points, Tyger Campbell added 15, and Jaylen Clark totaled 10.
Long Beach State's Joey Murray totaled a game-high 30 points, while Colin Slater finished with 27 points. Murray connected on 13 of 17 shots from the field.
Six different Bruins recorded at least one steal against Long Beach State (1-1). Five UCLA players had at least one block.
The Bruins forced 25 turnovers against Long Beach State, the most turnovers committed by any of UCLA's opponents since CSUN had 27 in the season-opening game on Nov. 12, 2010.
UCLA (3-0) led by a 48-45 margin at halftime and used an 11-2 scoring run to open the second half. Bernard was a spark plug for UCLA in that early run, hitting his first four shots as part of a 10-point half. UCLA utilized a balanced attack in the second half on Monday, as five players registered at least eight points (after the intermission).
The Bruins pushed ahead with a 7-0 scoring run, capped by a David Singleton 3-pointer at the 10:28 mark in the second half. That scoring run was sparked by an old-fashioned 3-point play from Clark, with 13:06 to play. His initial layup pushed the Bruins' cushion to 10 points. UCLA led by at least 10 points through the remainder of the contest.
The Bruins advantage swelled to 20 points on a 3-point basket from Campbell with 2:21 to play in the second half.
Long Beach State kept the margin close in the first half, thanks to strong shooting from its backcourt duo of Murray and Slater. Those two players combined for 37 of Long Beach State's 45 first-half points (making 16 of their first 20 shots, combined).
UCLA will conclude a season-opening four-game homestand against North Florida this Wednesday evening. Game time is 7:30 p.m. (PT). The Bruins' game will be televised by the Pac-12 Network.
Postgame Quotes – UCLA vs. Long Beach State
POSTGAME QUOTES
UCLA 100, Long Beach State 79
November 15, 2021
Mick Cronin, The Michael Price Family UCLA Men’s Head Basketball Coach
opening remarks
“First of all, I’ve got to give congratulations to Murray and Slater. Those guys played great. Give them a lot of credit. I’ve been doing this long enough, you’ve got to give other people credit. So good for those kids. That’s not going to ease my pain of (our) horrendous defense. You’ve got to give those guys credit well.”
on what worked on defense in the second half
“Not a whole lot. I would say they ran out of a bit of gas. Right now, my opinion defensively – I don’t know one thing we’re good at. On the ball, off the ball, our talk in transition. That’s my opinion.”
on averaging 93.7 points
“We better. We better. If I had a pair of sneakers, I think I could have scored on some of our guys tonight. I turn 50 this summer, just to remind you.”
on Jules Bernard performance
“He’s a really good player. Right now, I don’t need contribution. I need some leadership, some accountability in our locker room. I know everybody’s happy we beat Villanova, but the game was at home. So, to me, that game shouldn’t even come down the way it came down. We’ve got a lot of room for improvement.”
on stopping Murray and Slater
“When you let good players get started, giving them layups, the basket gets better. We don’t have a lot of great one-one-one players. We have to play team defense. The answer is team defense.”
on how sustainable winning is with defense like tonight
“Completely unsustainable. Completely. You can’t win on the road if you don’t defend.”
on message to the team after the game
“They know I’m extremely upset. There’s three options. You try to teach and coach. When that don’t work, you go to option two and scream and yell. Then option three: run in practice or sit in the game. So, we’re on option three. … I’ve got a lot of issues, but being convicted to what I believe in is not a problem for me. So right now, I’m just trying to search for somebody who can guard the ball, help when they’re supposed to help and follow the scouring report.
junior guard Johnny Juzang
on what they have to do better
“Game plan, they had two very talented guards. We just didn’t follow the scouting report well. We made it too easy for them. We’ve just got to take away those things.”
on the disconnect of winning the game and having coach be upset
“We have a team where everyone is returning, so we know the level that we’re capable of playing at, so just winning a game isn’t always satisfy us. It’s how you performed, how you won the game or lost the game. You know when you’ve made too many mistakes.”
senior guard Jules Bernard
on what they have to do better
“We gave up 57 points to two players, and that’s obviously unacceptable, especially for us, where the standard of defense is set at a high bar. So there’s definitely a lot to work on and a lot to watch from this game into our next game and learn from this.”
on what Long Beach State was doing to be efficient in making shots
“When you let players like that who have talent and are good players – when you let them get going early, and they have the juices flowing and you let the water start flowing, they’re just going to keep hitting shots, whether they’re tough, or they find ways to get open shots. I think we let them get going way too early offensively in the game.”
on if they felt like they needed to match what Murray and Slater were doing
“No, we’re just out there playing, just doing what we’re supposed to on the offensive end and playing together. But regardless of that, in the game, we’re not thinking let’s go bucket for bucket; we’re thinking how do we stop these guys. They’re on fire. They’re the two main guys who are scoring for them and keeping them in the game. We have to figure out a way to stop them, and unfortunately we did a poor job of that tonight.”
Long Beach State head coach Dan Monson
on the team’s overall performance
“I give us about a B-plus. I give us a C-minus offensively, a B-plus for rebound. Well, maybe I’ll give us an A for rebounding. Going in, we were concerned about our rebounding because UCLA had outrebounded their opponents, but we held our own. The rebounding didn’t really cost us the game.”
on the play of Murray and Slater
“As the kids would say, they were cookin’. I just wish we could have fed them more. We just have to keep doing what was working for us. We came out and we went to zone to try to keep them off-balance, but as the game went on, they looked more comfortable in the second half, and they started rolling after that.”
on where the team goes from here
“We just have to get better. We showed that we could compete against good teams for stretches, but the game is 40 minutes. We competed well in large stretches, but we just have to put it all together.”
UCLA 100, Long Beach State 79
November 15, 2021
Mick Cronin, The Michael Price Family UCLA Men’s Head Basketball Coach
opening remarks
“First of all, I’ve got to give congratulations to Murray and Slater. Those guys played great. Give them a lot of credit. I’ve been doing this long enough, you’ve got to give other people credit. So good for those kids. That’s not going to ease my pain of (our) horrendous defense. You’ve got to give those guys credit well.”
on what worked on defense in the second half
“Not a whole lot. I would say they ran out of a bit of gas. Right now, my opinion defensively – I don’t know one thing we’re good at. On the ball, off the ball, our talk in transition. That’s my opinion.”
on averaging 93.7 points
“We better. We better. If I had a pair of sneakers, I think I could have scored on some of our guys tonight. I turn 50 this summer, just to remind you.”
on Jules Bernard performance
“He’s a really good player. Right now, I don’t need contribution. I need some leadership, some accountability in our locker room. I know everybody’s happy we beat Villanova, but the game was at home. So, to me, that game shouldn’t even come down the way it came down. We’ve got a lot of room for improvement.”
on stopping Murray and Slater
“When you let good players get started, giving them layups, the basket gets better. We don’t have a lot of great one-one-one players. We have to play team defense. The answer is team defense.”
on how sustainable winning is with defense like tonight
“Completely unsustainable. Completely. You can’t win on the road if you don’t defend.”
on message to the team after the game
“They know I’m extremely upset. There’s three options. You try to teach and coach. When that don’t work, you go to option two and scream and yell. Then option three: run in practice or sit in the game. So, we’re on option three. … I’ve got a lot of issues, but being convicted to what I believe in is not a problem for me. So right now, I’m just trying to search for somebody who can guard the ball, help when they’re supposed to help and follow the scouring report.
junior guard Johnny Juzang
on what they have to do better
“Game plan, they had two very talented guards. We just didn’t follow the scouting report well. We made it too easy for them. We’ve just got to take away those things.”
on the disconnect of winning the game and having coach be upset
“We have a team where everyone is returning, so we know the level that we’re capable of playing at, so just winning a game isn’t always satisfy us. It’s how you performed, how you won the game or lost the game. You know when you’ve made too many mistakes.”
senior guard Jules Bernard
on what they have to do better
“We gave up 57 points to two players, and that’s obviously unacceptable, especially for us, where the standard of defense is set at a high bar. So there’s definitely a lot to work on and a lot to watch from this game into our next game and learn from this.”
on what Long Beach State was doing to be efficient in making shots
“When you let players like that who have talent and are good players – when you let them get going early, and they have the juices flowing and you let the water start flowing, they’re just going to keep hitting shots, whether they’re tough, or they find ways to get open shots. I think we let them get going way too early offensively in the game.”
on if they felt like they needed to match what Murray and Slater were doing
“No, we’re just out there playing, just doing what we’re supposed to on the offensive end and playing together. But regardless of that, in the game, we’re not thinking let’s go bucket for bucket; we’re thinking how do we stop these guys. They’re on fire. They’re the two main guys who are scoring for them and keeping them in the game. We have to figure out a way to stop them, and unfortunately we did a poor job of that tonight.”
Long Beach State head coach Dan Monson
on the team’s overall performance
“I give us about a B-plus. I give us a C-minus offensively, a B-plus for rebound. Well, maybe I’ll give us an A for rebounding. Going in, we were concerned about our rebounding because UCLA had outrebounded their opponents, but we held our own. The rebounding didn’t really cost us the game.”
on the play of Murray and Slater
“As the kids would say, they were cookin’. I just wish we could have fed them more. We just have to keep doing what was working for us. We came out and we went to zone to try to keep them off-balance, but as the game went on, they looked more comfortable in the second half, and they started rolling after that.”
on where the team goes from here
“We just have to get better. We showed that we could compete against good teams for stretches, but the game is 40 minutes. We competed well in large stretches, but we just have to put it all together.”
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