Throughout apply Friday, UCLA ladies’s basketball coach Cori Shut made it clear she needed to see extra from ahead Angela Dugalic.
“You’re not using what you’ve earned,” Shut recalled telling her whereas talking with reporters Friday.
Dugalic goes to face a number of the greatest gamers within the nation this week. Shut thinks she will be able to match up with them, however she wants Dugalic to play prefer it. With all of the work Dugalic has performed on her low-post recreation over the offseason, she will be able to’t accept floating across the perimeter.
Shut received’t let her.
“I just want her to be all she can be,” Shut mentioned. “She’s been an animal down there in the low post, and I want her to hunt for that. I don’t want her to settle for playing on the perimeter when she’s got a whole lot more tools in her toolbox that she’s not accessing.”
Shut bought that model of Dugalic in Sunday’s 88-37 rout of Southern at Pauley Pavilion. The third-ranked Bruins had been in full management from whistle to whistle, even pitching a second-quarter shutout, and Dugalic led the best way with 20 factors, 5 rebounds and an help. She shot eight for 15 from the ground with a trio of three-pointers.
It was pure dominance by UCLA. The Bruins shot 51% from the sector whereas holding the Jaguars to 29%. They outrebounded Southern by 30. They compelled 13 turnovers, 9 within the first half, and scored 28 factors off them. And on the offensive finish, UCLA was flowing with 24 assists to Southern’s 9.
Dugalic opened the scoring for UCLA with a midrange jumper adopted by a fast-break layup. She completed the primary half with 9 factors, tied for the group lead with freshman ahead Lena Bilic, who completed the sport with 14 factors.
UCLA guard Kiki Rice controls the ball in entrance of Southern ahead DeMya Porter through the first half of the Bruins’ win Sunday at Pauley Pavilion.
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Gabriela Jaquez added eight rebounds and 5 assists to go together with six factors. Her first basket, a layup after reducing via the paint within the second quarter, gave the senior guard her 1,000th profession level.
The Bruins entered that second quarter with a 22-9 lead because of a 14-2 run over the ultimate six minutes of the primary quarter after holding Southern (1-4) scoreless through the last three minutes. UCLA then exploded for a 27-0 run within the second quarter whereas holding the Jaguars scoreless for the complete interval.
Nonetheless, Shut wasn’t happy.
“I’m more interested in the process. They missed shots, we didn’t necessarily take them away,” Shut mentioned. “Other people are trying to beat us, we are trying to compete to be us.”
UCLA (6-0) will face No. 4 Texas on Wednesday within the Gamers Period Girls’s Championship in Las Vegas, adopted by both No. 2 South Carolina or Duke on Thanksgiving. The Bruins then will host No. 15 Tennessee on Nov. 30.
