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game of the season, but the key
thing was that we played smart.
Stanford’s going to be a real
tough, physical team. But we’re
excited about facing them.”
Oregon controlled the tempo
throughout the contest and with
the win, improved to 2-0 in league
play for the first time in four years.
It marks its best start since an 11-2
opening to the 1994-95 season,
which coincidentally, was the last
time Oregon reached the NCAA
Tournament.
“I thought it was a really good
win for us considering that it was
n’t as smooth as a game as we
would have liked,” Oregon head
coach Ernie Kent said. “We had
some chances to increase our lead
to double digits, but they would
always seem to come back and we
had to weather their storm. ”
More specifically, the storm of
Cal’s one-headed monster is jun
ior forward Sean Lamply, who
had a game-high 29 points on 11
of-19 shooting in 36 minutes.
“Lamply really came to play
tonight,” Smith said. “He’s a real
ly tough player and sometimes it’s
more difficult to play against a
team with just one star player be
cause they keep going back to him
time after time.”
Oregon controlled the game
with a balanced attack, as five
players reached double digits.
Leading the way with 20 points
was sophomore guard Freddie
Jones, who electrified the crowd in
the second half with a thunderous
one-handed jam as well as some
silky smooth driving lay-ins.
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er and that was my challenge to
him at halftime,” Kent said. “With
that said, he still hasn’t come
close to putting together his best
basketball game.”
Seniors Alex Scales and Darius
Wright each contributed 15 and 14
points, respectively, and forward
Bryan Bracey’s 12 points off the
bench played a huge part in the win.
The tempo of the game was dic
tated in the first seven minutes as
the Ducks rattled home four three
pointers during that span, taking
the early 22-16 lead.
“Our ball movement was just
fabulous in the first eight-to-ten
minutes,” Kent said. “We were
able to get some transition baskets
and really played smart. That’s
the sign of a team that is really
coming together.”
Oregon pushed the lead up to
40-27, before a Lampley-led Cal
team went on a 8-2 run to head
into halftime only down by seven.
But three minutes into the sec
ond half, Jones ignited a 10-2 run
with the aforementioned dunk
and followed up a Scales three
pointer with a trey of his own.
The run was capped by a
, Bracey dunk that gave the Dudes a
56-42 lead with 15:44.
But Cal wouldn’t let up. It
dosed within 10 points with 3:30,
the seventh time in the half that it
reached that point.
But after a Bracey jumper and
five free-throws by Wright, and the
Ducks had the win wrapped up.
“Oregon played with poise and
knocked down the key shots when
they had to,” said California head
coach Ben Braun, who remains one
win shy of400 for his career.
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lineup.
Lamply’s scoring display was
overshadowed by the lack of of
fensive punch from his young
counterparts. While Lamply
scored 29 points against the
Ducks, the Golden Bears’ other
starters managed only 26 points
combined.
“Sean is in a difficult situa
tion because they are real young
and inexperienced, and they
weren’t used to the big crowd,”
said Oregon forward A.D.
Smith, whose 12-point perform
ance left him just two points
shy of 1,000 for his career. “He’s
a very talented player on a very
young team.”
Lamply said after the game
that if anything, the crowd had
more of a positive effect on his
game than a negative one.
“I like the rowdy crowds.
They don’t affect me,” said Lam
ply, who has six double-doubles
on the year but was held to just
five rebounds against the Ducks.
“I feel like the only one who can
take me out of my game is me.”
If Lamply wasn’t rattled at the
Pit, his young teammates certain
ly were. Lamply said his team
needs to look at the big picture
after three consecutive Pacific-10
Conference losses.
“I told them we can’t harp on
one game,” Lamply said. “0-3 is
a bad way to start off the confer
ence games, but we can get out of
this hole.”
Especially disappointing for
the Bears was the play of point
guard Shantay Legans. Legans —
who averaged 4.3 assists per
game coming into Thursday
night’s contest — couldn’t get
his teammates involved and end
ed up with no assists, despite the
fact that Lamply was on fire for
most of the game.
“It’s a rare day that Shantay
gets zero assists, but these things
happen,” said California coach
Ben Braun. “This game was frus
trating because we were in a po
sition to make plays, but we did
n’t finish.”
Oregon head coach Ernie Kent
said he discussed with his play
ers the importance of not letting
one of California’s younger play
ers get hot from the perimeter.
“We knew someone was going
to have a big game. We were just
hoping it wasn’t one of their
young guys,” Kent said. “If Lam
ply has a big game, he is good
enough to do that. But we felt
good about how we did against
everyone else.”
And does the Ducks’ coach an
ticipate a different California
team when they meet Feb. 12 at
Haas Pavilion in Berkeley?
“They are a younger team,
but they are going to get so
much better as they go through
this first part of the Pac-10,”
Kent said. “They’re going to be
so tough during the second
half, because they’re logging a
lot of minutes right now, and
they have one of the premier
players in the conference in
Lamply.”
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