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The UCLA shot squad was voted into the Associated Press and coaches canvass apical 25 Tuesday, aft being unranked to commencement the season, but manager Chip Kelly believes the No. 16-ranked Bruins person country for betterment aft a 2-0 commencement to the season.
UCLA is idle this week with an aboriginal play bye week, due to the fact that of the Week 0 crippled to unfastened the play against Hawai’i, but Kelly has referred to viewing this week arsenic an “improvement week.”
After evaluating movie of Saturday’s triumph implicit LSU, Kelly has relayed 3 cardinal areas of betterment to his players.
The Bruins are capable to workout the extent they person astatine violative enactment by moving Jon Gaines II to center, portion Sam Marrazzo has missed the past 2 weeks.
But astatine slightest 2 snaps went past backmost Dorian Thompson-Robinson, forcing him to pursuit the escaped ball.
“We person to get that corrected,” Kelly said. “There were a mates that sailed a small bit, but Dorian is specified a bully jock backmost determination that sometimes helium makes a atrocious drawback not look similar a atrocious drawback due to the fact that helium tin seamlessly modulation aft catching it.”
Marrazzo hasn’t played since leaving the 2020 play finale aboriginal with an injury. He had started successful each 7 games astatine halfway past season.
Gaines started 4 games astatine close defender past play but Atonio Mafi [comment=”cq”] is filling that void arsenic the starter to statesman the season. Mafi made the modulation from antiaircraft enactment to violative enactment successful 2020. Mafi played defender successful precocious school.
“It’s not casual to drawback and artifact astatine times particularly erstwhile you got idiosyncratic connected your head,” Kelly said. “I deliberation Jon has done a truly bully occupation playing halfway for us.”
Marrazzo has been a constricted subordinate successful signifier this play but has not worn a azygous connected crippled day. Kelly continues to instrumentality a day-to-day attack with Marrazzo.
The Bruins indispensable besides cleanable up penalties. UCLA was called for 8 penalties for 73 full yards against LSU.
“We speech astir penalties each the clip and winning that punishment battle,” Kelly said.
The Bruins were called for holding 3 times against LSU, including doubly successful the 4th quarter. UCLA did play a cleanable 3rd quarter.
Kelly said penalties let the opposing discourtesy to widen drives. The UCLA defence was penalized connected each of LSU’s scoring plays successful the 2nd quarter.
After Thompson-Robinson threw an interception to LSU antiaircraft backmost Eli Ricks, it gave the Tigers’ discourtesy bully tract presumption astatine the 33-yard line. Quarterback Max Johnson completed a walk for a archetypal down connected the archetypal play, earlier UCLA antiaircraft backmost Qwuantrezz Knight was called for a 15-yard walk interference punishment connected the pursuing play that provided LSU with a archetypal down and the shot connected the 7-yard line.
The Bruins managed to nutrient a antiaircraft basal successful the reddish portion and bounds the Tigers to a tract goal.
“Those are things we volition proceed to harp connected and look at,” Kelly said. “If there’s thing that implicit clip is accordant and we request to truly code past we will. … When you’re playing bully teams you privation to beryllium playing downhill shot and not uphill football.”
Kelly and his unit noticed connection arsenic different country of betterment aft looking astatine film.
“There were a mates times wherever guys didn’t get the signals,” Kelly said. “That’s portion of the process erstwhile you ticker portion with them. You know, ‘What was your thought process present and wherefore did this occur?’ and past trying to hole it.”
SISSY BLUE
When LSU arrived astatine the Rose Bowl, the Tigers manager Ed Orgeron was seen successful a video that made its mode astir societal media, flanked by constabulary officers and having a verbal confrontation with a fan.
The manager is heard in the video saying “Bring your (expletive) on, successful your sissy bluish shirt!” to a instrumentality heckling him.
The video was not seen by UCLA players and coaches until aft the game. The Bruins authoritative shot Twitter relationship concisely changed its header representation connected its illustration to a bluish Jordan Brand garment that said “sissy blue” and posted a video with Orgeron’s remark followed by a clip of the Bruins celebrating successful the locker country aft the victory.
Kelly was asked astir the remark during an interrogation connected ‘Pac-12 Today’ connected SiriusXM.
“I don’t person a garment that says sissy connected it yet,” Kelly said. “I deliberation that whitethorn beryllium sold retired close now.”
A UCLA spokesperson told the Southern California News Group that the assemblage does not program connected selling an authoritative garment astatine field stores oregon online.
The instrumentality reportedly connected the different extremity of that enactment with Orgeron has acceptable up a website to merchantability a “sissy blue” garment and claims each the proceeds volition spell straight to the UCLA shot players arsenic portion of a name, representation and likeness partnership, if they assistance beforehand it.
“I haven’t adjacent taken vantage of the NIL thing,” elder antiaircraft backmost Cam Johnson said. “I’ve been locked successful to the wide extremity of trying to triumph these games. … I’m conscionable focused connected trying to triumph a ringing this year. That’s it.”
Fellow antiaircraft backmost Martell Irby shared a akin sentiment regarding NIL.
“Me and my teammates aren’t disquieted astir that astatine all,” Irby said. “We’re truly conscionable focused connected the task astatine manus and conscionable being capable to onslaught this week. … We’re conscionable present to play and we volition proceed to bash so.”
The Bruins volition big Fresno State successful a nonconference crippled astatine the Rose Bowl Sept. 18.
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