Ucla basketball

David Singleton. A guy who doesn't have NBA athleticism. Who isn't naturally a great defender. Playing for a coach in Mick Cronin that demands you play defense ...

How Cronin could make this team competitive without Clark and Bona, and even enable you to think it could win a national championship without them says it all right there about the coaching in the UCLA program. It’s a long series of losses with a few wins sprinkled in here and there to keep you going. But if we are talking about heartbreak, it is heartbreaking to realize we’ll never see these players take the court again in a UCLA uniform together. And hope is what is the most potentially heartbreaking. He is what he is – and that’s one of the most highly competitive human beings on the planet. And he’s one of the small handful of the best players in the country. And it was without the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, and one of the biggest post presences in the nation, [Adem Bona](//247sports.com/Player/Adem-Bona-46109410). Keep that in the front of your mind. If you’re going to get into the details of the game, though, there’s one over-arching motif to the movie here that you can’t forget. As Cronin said in the post-game interview, “You can’t get any more out of his body and his God-given things that he has that he can’t change. Lately, he’s been trying to find some kind of zen, and you’ve noticed he’s more composed on the sideline. If you’re talking about doing things for the right reasons – one of the reasons he came back to UCLA for his senior season was to be in school for one year with his kid sister, Gabriela.