Hampton: Beavers can’t find the offense Comments
The Beavers had a golden opportunity for a Pacific-10 Conference sweep slip through their hands on Saturday.
Instead, the Beavers could not muster enough offense around Calvin Haynes and the Bruins found a key to OSU’s zone. The result was a 62-52 loss to UCLA before 8,067 fans at Gill Coliseum.
Haynes struggled for most of the game to get his shot going and finished 5 of 20 from the field. His teammates were 14 of 31 but no one stepped into the scorer’s role for the Beavers.
“It was off night,” Seth Tarver said. “We missed some easy shots and also against the zone we got stagnant and we had to take some tough shots at the end of the shot clock. If would have attacked earlier and not been so stagnant then we wouldn’t have had to take such tough shots, but that’s just what happened.”
The Beavers trailed 24-18 at the half but missed all four of their free throws. They scored 34 points in the second half on the strength of a late-game push that got them within six twice in the final moments.
Haynes did lead OSU with 16 points and played a big part in OSU’s late run.
UCLA, however, was able to get far too many easy baskets in the second half. They shot 75 percent from the field after the half and 65.7 percent for the game.
”I thought they did a real good job of attacking our zone and I thought that we expended so much energy coming back that we had lapses on defense,” Craig Robinson said. “When you have to make spectacular plays to come back into the game, it opens you up to vulnerable situations and they took full advantage of that.”
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