Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Arizona's staff showed the tape of UCLA's Lorenzo Mata, growling at Chase Budinger after blocking his shot and no one on the squad got back in Mata's face.

"Everyone in the room was pissed," Arizona associate head coach Jim Rosborough said. "We're done taking bologna. We've got to get real angry. We need to have an edge."


*You have to be an ESPN Insider to read the rest of Andy Katz's story. I am not.

But I am very encouraged by the second of those two paragraphs. I think Arizona is finally seeing the big picture. After playing at a mediocre level by Arizona standards virtually all of Janurary, and certainly last week against the L.A. schools, Arizona has finally realized they are missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: killer instinct. Clearly, UCLA has it. So why not use video of the PAC10's new "standard" as motivation?

The next step: actually establish that edge on the defensive end. Then we'll see who's done talking baloney.

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