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LOS ANGELES — UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close on Wednesday offered a guarded update on center Lauren Betts, who has missed the Bruins’ past two games for “undisclosed medical” reasons.
“She practiced a little bit today,” Close said. “She’s day to day and we’re starting to reintegrate her a little bit.”
Close didn’t go into details on the extent of Betts’ absence, what has caused it or a specific date of when she could return to game action, but she mentioned that UCLA will send out a press release with information Saturday.
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The hardest thing about this,” said Close, “is that we had designed so much around Lauren and so we hope to be able to get her back soon, but I think it’s a big shift.”
At Wednesday’s practice, she implemented sets that provide the guards with space to penetrate the lane and become scorers, meanwhile working with the forwards to “set great ball screens for our guards,” make up for the rebounding that’s lost with Betts and pick it up on the defensive side.
We have great guards on this team,” sophomore Kiki Rice said Wednesday. “We’ve focused a lot on establishing the post in all of our games so far. Without her, we do have to recognize that, ‘OK, we have to bring back our attack mentality.’”
LOS ANGELES — UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close on Wednesday offered a guarded update on center Lauren Betts, who has missed the Bruins’ past two games for “undisclosed medical” reasons.
“She practiced a little bit today,” Close said. “She’s day to day and we’re starting to reintegrate her a little bit.”
Close didn’t go into details on the extent of Betts’ absence, what has caused it or a specific date of when she could return to game action, but she mentioned that UCLA will send out a press release with information Saturday.
I will share the article in the event that you can’t get through the paywall:
The hardest thing about this,” said Close, “is that we had designed so much around Lauren and so we hope to be able to get her back soon, but I think it’s a big shift.”
At Wednesday’s practice, she implemented sets that provide the guards with space to penetrate the lane and become scorers, meanwhile working with the forwards to “set great ball screens for our guards,” make up for the rebounding that’s lost with Betts and pick it up on the defensive side.
We have great guards on this team,” sophomore Kiki Rice said Wednesday. “We’ve focused a lot on establishing the post in all of our games so far. Without her, we do have to recognize that, ‘OK, we have to bring back our attack mentality.’”