Add this game video to the archives. Stanford beat No. 24 UCLA 73-72 on a last-second layup by Oscar da Silva in overtime and the Cardinal played without starters Ziaire Williams (personal), Daejon Davis (knee) and Bryce Wills (ankle).
Jerod Haase was brought to tears by the win and explained after the game that today is the 28th anniversary of his father's death. When he was a freshman at Cal his father passed away and the next day he was a standout for the Golden Bears in a win against ... UCLA. Haase appeared in the press conference to be on the verge of being the first person in history to literally burst with pride because of the effort of the team in very difficult circumstances.
He also shared that in its last practice the team didn't correctly execute the inbound play that won the game. At the time he said he told the players that they needed to know how to do it right without him having to call a timeout. And the way the world works you just knew that would be exactly the scenario that faced the Cardinal Saturday and this time they got it right.
da Silva scored 26 points, was perfect from the free throw line (9-of-9) had four assists and five rebounds. It was another conference player of the year kind of game.
Haase confirmed that Williams and Davis were not in the arena Saturday and he said that he's unsure about a timeline of when the three starters absent today will return to the court. That means that the spectacular effort of several individuals today who stepped up in their place will probably need to be repeated a couple times.
Spencer Jones was not 100 percent and Haase half jokingly said that every time Jones was on the bench it seemed like three trainers were working on his hip to try to keep Jones in the game. He is an elite defender and the led the team's gritty effort on that end of the court with three steals and also had a block. He scored 13 points and had six rebounds. His most important three pointer came in overtime.
Lukas Kisunas scored nine points and his four made field goals were all dunks. He also had seven rebounds, two assists and two steals in arguably his best game as a Cardinal given the context and that he played for 33 minutes.
He also took a critical charge with 2:21 left in overtime after Spencer Jones made a three to put Stanford up four. The play kept the momentum with the Cardinal and then they appeared to be well on their way to a much less dramatic win when Michael O'Connell and Jaiden Delaire teamed up for this sequence.
O'Connell and Delaire were also standout performers in part because they had to play 41 and 39 minutes, respectively. O'Connell got an education at times about defense against a crafty Tyga Campbell but the freshman was otherwise a calming influence on offense for a team without its top two point guards. He scored five points, had five assists, three rebounds, two steals and zero turnovers.
No one asked if this was the angry version of Delaire, but whatever his state of mind he was effective in a number of ways to score 19 points and also had four assists and two steals.
It's remarkable that Stanford only turned the ball over 13 times and countered with 10 steals and won the turnover category 13-14.
Jerod Haase was brought to tears by the win and explained after the game that today is the 28th anniversary of his father's death. When he was a freshman at Cal his father passed away and the next day he was a standout for the Golden Bears in a win against ... UCLA. Haase appeared in the press conference to be on the verge of being the first person in history to literally burst with pride because of the effort of the team in very difficult circumstances.
He also shared that in its last practice the team didn't correctly execute the inbound play that won the game. At the time he said he told the players that they needed to know how to do it right without him having to call a timeout. And the way the world works you just knew that would be exactly the scenario that faced the Cardinal Saturday and this time they got it right.
da Silva scored 26 points, was perfect from the free throw line (9-of-9) had four assists and five rebounds. It was another conference player of the year kind of game.
Haase confirmed that Williams and Davis were not in the arena Saturday and he said that he's unsure about a timeline of when the three starters absent today will return to the court. That means that the spectacular effort of several individuals today who stepped up in their place will probably need to be repeated a couple times.
Spencer Jones was not 100 percent and Haase half jokingly said that every time Jones was on the bench it seemed like three trainers were working on his hip to try to keep Jones in the game. He is an elite defender and the led the team's gritty effort on that end of the court with three steals and also had a block. He scored 13 points and had six rebounds. His most important three pointer came in overtime.
Lukas Kisunas scored nine points and his four made field goals were all dunks. He also had seven rebounds, two assists and two steals in arguably his best game as a Cardinal given the context and that he played for 33 minutes.
He also took a critical charge with 2:21 left in overtime after Spencer Jones made a three to put Stanford up four. The play kept the momentum with the Cardinal and then they appeared to be well on their way to a much less dramatic win when Michael O'Connell and Jaiden Delaire teamed up for this sequence.
O'Connell and Delaire were also standout performers in part because they had to play 41 and 39 minutes, respectively. O'Connell got an education at times about defense against a crafty Tyga Campbell but the freshman was otherwise a calming influence on offense for a team without its top two point guards. He scored five points, had five assists, three rebounds, two steals and zero turnovers.
No one asked if this was the angry version of Delaire, but whatever his state of mind he was effective in a number of ways to score 19 points and also had four assists and two steals.
It's remarkable that Stanford only turned the ball over 13 times and countered with 10 steals and won the turnover category 13-14.
