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e University of Oregon Duck Store started a new program to make textbooks more widely available online. (Henry Ward)
As technology changes, higher titles for eBooks if they don’t want Library to expand the use of online faculty member isn’t even using a education changes with it. Part to. ey can rent them for 90 or 180 resources and eBooks. textbook. ey’re creating their own of that change is seen in the way days or buy the book outright, Open educational resources are materials or they’re allowing you students access their textbooks, Lyons said. open-license texts that don’t come to draw from internet resources,” with more and more required texts Having electronic forms of with an access code, which is a large Triplett said. “When faculty coming in electronic forms. textbooks gives students another part of some textbooks’ expenses. members are assigning texts, please e University of Oregon Duck option when buying their term’s e Knight Library is currently be conscientious of the cost, and Store has started a new business books. Lyons said that so far, the searching for a librarian that hopefully that would yield better partnership this fall to make Duck Store has sold around 170 focuses on OERs to help students usage or at least more textbooks more available online, titles for winter term. access these free online resources, thoughtful approaches.” eliminating the need for heavy Freshman cinema studies major Triplett says. For both Triplett and Lyons, a books and introducing a new Nathan Awbry said that besides “e challenge we’ve had is large part of their work is raising partnership with RedShelf to bring price, the accessibility of an eBook around developing these materials,” awareness about these new eBooks to the Duck Store. would persuade whether he would Triplett said. “Part of the challenge approaches to textbooks, whether According to Duck Store Chief buy it. “I think that I would prefer is where do they live? When you they’re eBooks or OERs. Information Officer Alex Lyons, the the online cheaper one, as long as have to have access to them and “It’s being thoughtful about Duck Store successfully launched it’s easily accessible,” he said. “Like they have to be available for others college affordability across the its eBooks, selling over 700 of them if I found out you have to put in a to build on or to download, how do board, to which a textbook is a fall term. It is continuing to expand bunch of codes every time you want they make these things available?” big component,” Triplett said. “I the program as it works to access it, then maybe not.” For students, having textbooks would want to know that a faculty with RedShelf. Along with eBooks, UO is working available online and through the member which has the right and “On average, 20 percent of to introduce more resources on an library not only gives more access, the responsibility to choose their titles have eBook options,” Lyons online platform. but it also can make textbooks more curriculum and all the materials said. “Savings for eBooks range Assistant Vice President affordable, according to Triplett. that support it is being cognizant of depending on the titles, but can be for University Initiatives and Triplett says that professors play the fact that there is an impact up to 15 percent for the Collaborations Chuck Triplett says a role by choosing more affordable on students.” digital purchase.” that the university is working with textbooks for their classes. Zach Demars contributed reporting Students won’t have to buy the both the Duck Store and the Knight “ere may be a course where a to this article.
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UO student and Army aviation captain Brian Gaudette is the owner of Captain Soup. After being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s yroiditis, an autoimmune condition, he turned to clean eating to manage his illness. (Dana Sparks)
UO GRAD STUDENT AND ARMY PILOT OPENS CAPTAIN SOUP TRUCK IN EUGENE
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About fi ve years ago, Brian Gaudette noticed numerous specialists, he was prescribed a pill that quickly shedding the extra weight. a change in his health. He was about 50 pounds alleviated some of the symptoms, though he said “When your brain doesn’t work, it’s really hard to overweight and was experiencing spatial he still felt foggy, anxious and overweight. remember what it’s like to feel normal, it’s just sort disorientation and anxiety. As an active-duty ough he had reached the limit of what Western of this slow fade into gray,” he said. aviation captain in the Army, he knew the brain medicine could provide for him, he knew he When Gaudette realized the diet was working fog and overall deteriorating health wouldn’t fl y. couldn’t stop there if he wanted to continue to be for him, the next step was fi guring out how to His health would need to seriously improve to an aviation captain, he said. transport soups when he was on deployment. He maintain his way of life, so he turned to soup. at’s when a friend gave Gaudette a book about learned how to tin cans of soup in his home, and Gaudette, now on what he called a “mid-tour using food to heal chronic diseases, which sparked would ship 500 pounds of soup to destinations hiatus,” is studying at the University of Oregon to his interest in researching the topic. Chronic while on deployment, earning him the nickname receive his Masters in Business Administration. illnesses and autoimmune conditions affect 23.5 “Captain Soup.” In addition to his studies, being a father and million Americans, according to the National He began selling soup to some family and an active-duty offi cer, Gaudette is the founder Institute of Health, though those numbers may be friends, who ate the soup every day for 30 days and and CEO of his food truck, Captain Soup. In the higher due to undiagnosed conditions. reported losing weight and reversing symptoms Lundquist College of Business, Gaudette found While Gaudette said he knew that starting a of type two diabetes, among other health a support system of other entrepreneurs and an clean, whole-food diet would relieve his symptoms, improvements. After seeing the results, he decided abundance of fresh resources that the Willamette committing to a new diet would be more diffi cult to open the online shop. Valley offers. with travel and an intense work schedule. “It’s really humbling to watch someone who’s e soup is made with either locally sourced “When you look at the food that’s really going through living a shell of a life to all of lamb or ground beef, bone broth and organic convenient, and that’s readily available, none of it is a sudden they’re thriving and they’re being vegetables, and comes in classic or dijon fl avors. clean.” He asked himself, “How do you exist in this healed from things that were not supposed to be ough he’s sold his product online for a year, he food system and society that doesn’t have clean possible without medication,” he said. “ at’s been decided to open a physical location after discussing food? And the answer is the burden is completely incredibly humbling to be a part of and really why the idea in courses at the UO and with colleagues. on you to source and make your food every day.” we’re still here.” “Without the Willamette Valley, without being He decided to commit to a six-month trial diet, Gaudette also hosts talks and said he hopes that here in Eugene, without the University of Oregon, eating only soup that he prepared from whole, by sharing his experiences, and his soups, others Captain Soup doesn’t exist,” he said. organic ingredients known to heal stomach will be able to make healthy diet changes as well. Before beginning his soup business, however, ailments. He’d cook large batches and freeze Captain Soup is located on the corner of West Gaudette was diagnosed with an autoimmune portions to take on the go. 11th and Chambers in Eugene. e truck is open condition called Hashimoto’s yroiditis, or After only four or fi ve weeks on the new diet, he from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through ursday, Hashimoto’s disease, in which his immune system said it felt like a veil had been lifted from his eyes. but you can order the soup online anytime at mistakenly attacks his thyroid. After visiting He had more mental stamina, slept better and was captainsoup.com.
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(Creative Commons) WAYS TO STAY ON TRACK WITH YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
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e first week of 2019 has now passed, and you are Be real with yourself you feel like you have mastered it. e process is like in your first trial of the New Year. e one question building a skillset, you can either be really great at everyone is asking is centered around their New For some, going cold turkey is not realistic at all. one thing or mediocre at a wide variety of things. Year’s resolutions made before commencing into And, in some cases, it may not be the healthiest, January. Some of the most common resolutions either. is is where you have to have an honest Speak it into existence, but don’t jinx yourself people make include going to the gym more, conversation with yourself and figure out what quitting their smoking habits and improving money is doable. If you want to stop a certain habit, try One common online trend was the overbearing management skills. ere are a few other notable weaning off of it first, and then gradually get to the amount of people sharing their goals for the new goals that are commonly made and just as hard, but point of no longer practicing the hobby anymore. year. It is a good idea to speak things into existence, one thing all resolutions seem to have in common is If you want to start a new hobby, go slow and then but not everybody needs to know your goals. people’s inability to maintain them. build the momentum up. Remember, this New Year’s Not everybody is on your team, and misery loves Around the end of December, people start to feel resolution is for yourself; at the end of the day, the company for a lot of folks. A common saying goes, “It like there are things that need to change in the new person who needs to be satisfied is you. Start off is better to work hard in silence and let the success year. ey hope that once January comes, all of strong and honest with yourself about your show for itself.” is makes it easier to accept these things will magically happen. is is a disaster own abilities. rejections or setbacks you may encounter on your waiting to happen. Instead, what usually takes way to accomplishing your goals. e best thing place is a failure to pursue new goals past February. Pace yourself with the number of resolutions to do to stay on the right path is personally track According to a 2016 study conducted by the you have your goals and make it something you are doing for Statistic Brain Research Institute, only eight percent yourself, rather than a social media post to accomplish their New Year goal by the end of the People will often set multiple goals for themselves be shared. year. In other words, the “new year, new me,” motto to achieve and ultimately realize they are struggling Staying consistent with new changes is hard usually doesn’t hold up too well. to accomplish even one. is is not a race, and you and, as stated before, there are bound to be some Here are three simple tips that can help you stay are only competing with yourself. erefore, the setbacks. However, even if you mess up your goal for on track and feel proud of your efforts at the end of number of goals you set should be realistic and the new year or feel you have already disappointed the year. doable. Instead of looking to accomplish three goals yourself, remember that there are still more than 300 all at once, start with one and don’t move on until days left to get it right.
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QUESTION: “HOW DO I DEAL WITH ALWAYS LIKING GUYS WHO EITHER HAVE NO IDEA I EXIST OR PROBABLY WOULD NEVER BE SEEN WITH ME?” HOPELESS ROMANTIC
ANSWER: act like you don’t exist, chances going to get exactly what you’re what’s working and not working Dear Hopeless Romantic, are — to them — you don’t. It’s getting now. If you continue for you. Sometimes this means Sounds like you kind of have a kind of like when people say, to rationalize why someone identifying a trait or characteristic taste for jerks. “You don’t know what you don’t is treating you poorly — or that you find absolutely Of course, everyone has the know.” It’s likely there hasn’t been rationalize that they aren’t when delectable as something that right to unrequited feelings or the interaction — perhaps an they really are — they’re going to actually isn’t healthy for you. attraction, but when you say they introduction or spark of intrigue continue treating you poorly. is It might be time to question “probably would never be seen through conversation — necessary does not mean what they’re doing whether you’re allowing yourself with [you],” maybe you should for a space to be created for you is okay –– or that you deserve it to see the people who really do reconsider wanting to be seen in their mind. ink about how –– just that people do as deserve a chance. Sometimes we with them. many people you pass each day they please. don’t allow the right person in Your observation tells me that without realizing who they are, Despite that, I do believe that our lives because they’re too nice whatever person, or people, the life they’re living or perhaps there are many good people out or perhaps feel “too right.” At that you’re referring to doesn’t even their existence. ere might there — and probably a person in point, you should ask yourself, actually see your value as a be someone who feels that way search of someone just like you. “What happened to me that person. ere is a big difference about you right now. is sort of If you’re falling for the wrong was so bad that it has led me to between not wanting to be with situation is exactly why we need guy again and again, you’re not believe someone is too nice someone and not wanting to be this seemingly cliché advice: You learning from your mistakes. e for me?” seen with someone. e latter have to put yourself out there. “wrong guy” — if you think about Sometimes we overlook the implies some sort of shame — Demanding respect and it — actually tends to be a lot of things we deserve because we Why would you want to give your pursuing whom you want places different people who don’t see don’t feel like we deserve them. time to someone who feels shame a lot of responsibility on you or appreciate you. ink about In this same strain of behaviors, or embarrassment around you? because, in a way, I’m saying you how often people go through sometimes we romanticize the e simple answer: You don’t. have to make your own kind of love and relationships and learn people or things that are bad for You’re a hopeless romantic and love. (at’s kind of romantic, about themselves before figuring us — but that’s not romantic. –– if I were to take a guess –– isn’t it?) At some point, we need out what they need and how to What is romantic is taking care that means you’re in love with to recognize what we manifest handle a relationship. While these of yourself. love and searching for a genuine in our own lives by how we treat are people that you can learn Demand respect. Cultivate connection. In your pursuit ourselves, letting others know from, be careful you don’t make loving relationships. Celebrate for romance, you can’t forget how to treat us (which is a little the same mistakes and end up each other. Don’t compromise for that love and respect must be a less romantic). dealing with too many the wrong guy. Don’t lose yourself package deal if it’s truly worth e hard truth is that if you “wrong guys.” looking for the right guy. your time. keep chasing after the wrong Look at your past mistakes — er, Yours truly, When it comes to people who people in the wrong places, you’re past loves — and be honest about Dana
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2019 | EMERALD | PAGE 7 . COVER WHERE OREGON MEETS SNEAKERHEAD GLORY BY JAKE WILLARD • TWITTER @RUNJWILL
In 1988, former University of Oregon pole- velcro swooshes. vaulter Tinker Hatfield was tasked by Nike On Dec. 22, Oregon football also received with designing the Air Jordan 3. His design was an Air Jordan 6 PE ahead of the Redbox Bowl, well received by Michael Jordan and Nike ran complete with the Ducks’ signature wings and with the shoe. Today Hatfield’s design is widely an Oregon “O” stitched over black suede. considered by many to be one of his best of all While it may seem normal for student athletes time. Tinker would go on to design every Jordan to receive free shoes with all of their equipment, model from the Jordan 3 to the Jordan 15. While receiving these PE Jordans from Jordan Brand Jordan Brand, a Nike-owned company, did not has proven to be a special event for both the begin to work with UO until the 2000s, Hatfield’s athletes and sneaker collectors alike. Duck ties never faded. e Ducks started receiving these custom Fast forward to the present day: Oregon is a PE sneakers for travel in 2011, beginning with a little over 13 months into its 11-year, $88 million Jordan 9 Oregon PE Hatfield designed for the apparel sponsorship deal with Nike. And due football team. Hatfield said he hoped the Jordan in part to Hatfield’s generosity, the Ducks have shoes would get people talking about the Ducks’ become one of the only Nike-sponsored schools travel gear. to receive exclusive gear from Jordan Brand, “I felt like there was something missing. such as the homecoming jerseys they wore It wasn’t really that exciting and no one was against UCLA last season. But the gear doesn’t talking about it,” Hatfield told Nike in an end there. interview about his Oregon-themed sneakers. Ducks cornerback omas Graham Jr. wears the special edition Jordan Brand jersey e University of Oregon holds a special One person Hatfield got talking was Oregon during the homecoming game against UCLA. (Devin Roux) place in the world of sneakers. Since 2011, the alumnus Brendan Dunne. After graduating from Ducks have received limited edition Oregon- UO, Dunne went on to become a professional themed Jordan shoes designed exclusively for at talking about sneakers. He is now a deputy the student athletes by Hatfield. ese player editor at Complex and the co-host of the exclusive (PE) Jordans have not only caught the YouTube sneaker talk show Full Size Run. Dunne attention of Oregon fans, but are highly sought- believes that Hatfield had created something after by celebrities and collectors alike. As a special.“ere were University of Oregon- result, these sneakers can fetch an impressive branded shoes before, but this was something price tag on the resale market. With all the else,” he said. excitement that surrounds these shoes, they Since Tinker created the Jordan 9 for the have reached a significant place in Ducks, Oregon PE Jordans have become some sneaker culture. of the most sought-after shoes for sneakerheads OPEN THE BOX across the globe. Celebrities such as As part of the Ducks’ homecoming uniform Macklemore, Victor Cruz, Lil Yachty and Lebron collaboration with Jordan Brand, Oregon also James are known to have one, if not several, unveiled an Air Jordan 3 Tinker PE shoe that pairs of these Oregon-themed Jordan shoes was only given to members of the football team in their collections, even though they have no and friends and family of UO. e Oregon- direct ties to the university. themed shoe features a plush green suede Houston Rockets small forward P.J. Tucker, with the Jordan 3’s signature elephant print widely considered to have one of the best detailing. e shoe pays homage to Hatfield’s sneaker collections in the NBA, wore a pair of early Jordan 3 sketches with its interchangeable Oregon Jordan 5 PEs in a playoff game against e Jordan 14 Oregon Duck PE features a plush suede shoe upper covered in embossed Fighting Duck logos. Given to members of the football team in 2015, these sneakers have sold for up to $2,200 on sneaker resale site StockX. (Jake Willard) JORDAN 3 JORDAN 4 IS THE PRICE RIGHT? RELEASED RELEASED Oregon player exclusive Jordans are among some of the most exclusive sneakers created, 2012 2014 and the demand for them among sneakerheads is remarkable. With that being said, how much do some of the best pairs resell for? RESALE RESALE
Resale prices from StockX, Index PDX and Stadium Goods. $4,450 $5,800 $2,500 $10,500 (Infographic by Kelly Kondo)
PAGE 8 | EMERALD | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2019 the Utah Jazz in May of 2018. And just last week he Jordans along with all their game equipment to be the high demand among sneaker collectors and the rocked a pair of Jordan 13 Oregon PEs against the cleaned and stored. limited number of shoes created, Oregon PE Jordans Trail Blazers. Even DJ Khaled has already obtained a “We’ll take the Jordans and lock them up,” Wasson are the perfect storm. Several of these shoes are pair of the recently unveiled Jordan 3 Tinker PEs and said. “Once the athlete’s eligibility is completely used what many sneakerheads would consider a holy flexed on his Instagram. up, they can return to their team equipment manager grail. People will go to great lengths to own a pair, While the Jordan 9 Oregon PE was the first, it was to get their shoes.” regardless of if they are even their shoe size. the Pit Crew Air Jordan 3 PE that had the biggest Wasson also noted that other schools will reach “A big part of collecting these things is trying to impact on sneaker culture, Dunne said. “I was a out to the Oregon equipment staff to ask about their track down what others can’t,” Dunne said. “In this senior at the University of Oregon when [they] first process in handling Jordan PEs. “We heard from regard, few things are more elusive than something surfaced in the fall of 2011. It felt like a windfall for Oklahoma and Florida, but UNC didn’t reach out until that was never made available to the public, Oregon-based footwear obsessives,” he said. after their issue,” he chuckled. something that players can now be penalized for e Pit Crew 3s were raffled off to students who Once an athlete graduates, they can — if they actually selling off.” attended select home basketball games that year. It choose — sell their Jordans without facing e collaboration between UO and Jordan Brand was the first time a PE was made available to people suspension. As a result, the shoes may not start to has proved to be beneficial to both parties. e outside the athletic department. at’s how Dunne hit the sneaker market until two or three years after university gets to use its unique connection with picked up his pair. they were first released. is ultimately causes the Jordan along with its plethora of gear options to draw “I brought $200 cash with me in hopes of buying demand from sneakerheads to further grow and the top reruits, and Jordan Brand gets to create some of a winning ticket off someone who didn’t realize how price to increase even more. the rarest sneakers and generate buzz around special the shoes were. I caught an old couple in the Even if some athletes decide not to sell, PE Jordans their shoes. hallway after seeing them get up from their seats can still find their way into the market by way of With the overall success of Jordan PEs since 2011 when their number was called and essentially paid friends and family. and no signs of slowing down, student athletes and retail price for one of the most coveted Air Jordans of Between the unique colors and design elements, sneakerheads have a bright future to look forward to. all time,” he recalled. Since 2011, Hatfield and Jordan Brand have gifted 19 different pairs of these custom shoes to Oregon athletics. And Hatfield has always been willing to go the extra mile to design something befitting of UO’s style. From the Duck re-enacting the famous Jumpman pose, large use of the Duck wing pattern and bright Oregon colors, or covering a whole shoe in embossed Fighting Duck logos, Hatfield’s Oregon Jordan designs stand out in the sneaker community. And it’s not just because of how much they can sell for — or how many fakes are made and sold. (You can already buy a fake pair of the new Oregon Jordan 3 Tinker PEs in your size on Instagram for $150.) BUY THE HYPE? With all the hype that surrounds these shoes and the small number of each pair created, the cash value of Jordan PEs can often reach four-to-five-figure price tags, regardless of whether they are Oregon themed. With the opportunity to sell their shoes, some college athletes choose to let their PEs go, but the NCAA doesn’t allow it. According to Sports Illustrated, 13 University of North Carolina football players sold their team- issued UNC Jordan PEs for up to $2,500: a solid chunk of change for a college student. However, in doing so, they violated an NCAA bylaw that prohibits selling “an item received for participation in e Jordan 13 Oregon Ducks PE is a hot-ticket shoe among the top sneakerheads. Rapper Lil Yachty proudly displayed a pair in his collection and intercollegiate athletics.” e players were suspended Houston Rockets small forward P.J. Tucker rocked a pair in a game this season. (Jake Willard) anywhere from one to four games this past season. To prevent these shoes from causing eligibility issues at UO, the equipment staff oversees the THERE WERE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON distribution of player shoes when Jordan Brand gifts them to a team. “We work with the coaching staff and Nike on BRANDED SHOES BEFORE, BUT THIS setting a date the players wear the shoes,” said Aaron Wasson, Assistant Athletic Director of Equipment WAS SOMETHING ELSE.” Operations. After the game, the players return their BRENDAN DUNNE JORDAN 5 JORDAN 14 JORDAN 13 RELEASED RELEASED RELEASED 2014 2015 2017 RESALE RESALE RESALE $5,200 $8,000 $1,500 $2,200 $3,200 $9,500
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2019 | EMERALD | PAGE 11 OPINION DOES ANYONE STILL CARE ABOUT LIVE MUSIC?
BY JOSEPH CAPPELLETTI • TWITTER @CAPPELLETTI7
Walking the streets of Eugene on a weekend concerned with documenting an experience than free at home. According to Livestream’s website, night, you can hear music blasting through the actually living it, this connection is diminished. live music streaming viewership is increasing at walls of frat and house parties all around you. Phone use has gotten so excessive that a rate of 28.6 percent per year. If you walk through campus on a weekday, former White Stripes’ singer Jack White recently Additionally, live streaming is changing how the majority of people passing by will have banned all phones from his concert. Edmonton artists perform. During Beyonce’s legendary headphones in as they listen to music on their Journal reviewer Ryan Garner wrote about a set this year at Coachella, her set seemed to be way to class. recent concert, “Free of distraction (or even the targeted more at the audience at home than in Music’s popularity continues to grow every temptation of it), the crowd was fully drawn into attendance. Why would people go to concerts year. In a report by Nielsen Music, it was the action, returning to a time when we focused if artists are going to play more for the fans revealed that in 2017, Americans listened to 32 on the proceedings rather than vainly attempting streaming online than the ones in person? hours of music a week on average. Compared to to preserve them.” What makes live music so special isn’t 26.6 hours in 2016 and 23.5 in 2015. If you were to look up a video of an AC/ something that can be felt watching a computer Music consumption continues to increase DC concert 30 years ago and compare it to a screen or listening to a song on Spotify. Concerts in large part because of online streaming. Coachella concert this past year, the crowds are give bands the control to play music the way Technology has greatly benefited the extraordinarily different. e main difference is they want it to be heard and understood. Going accessibility of music for consumers; however, that one displays thousands witnessing authentic to concerts inspires, energizes and connects us it has not positively impacted live music in the and pure emotion, while technology interrupts in a way that nothing else can. same way. and impedes this experience in the other. One of the main draws of Eugene is that it To start, the concert experience has vastly Social media isn’t the only influence that is one of the best places in Oregon to find live changed with the emergence of smartphones. It technology has had on live music. With live music. e Willamette Valley Music Festival, often seems like concertgoers care more about and recorded concert streaming online, fans Lorax, WOW Hall and McDonald all give unique recording and sharing concerts on their phones can watch concerts without even going. For experiences to see some of the best up-and- than actually engaging with the artist and fellow the past eight years, YouTube has live streamed coming musicians in the world. Get out there fans. When you go to concerts, the unique many of the concerts at Coachella. Fans are now and experience the live music scene that can be energy and intimacy that you share with other questioning if they should spend hundreds of found on every corner of Eugene for yourself — people is crucial. If those around you are more dollars when they can watch the same show for without your phone.
Outside of music festivals and superstar concerts, the live music concert experience has vastly changed. (Sarah Northrop)
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Ducks center Kenny Wooten (14) continues to sit out with a broken jaw. (Ben Green)
IN THE ABSENCE OF 2 STAR PLAYERS, OREGON MUST CONTROL THE PACE TO BEAT UCLA
BY JACK BUTLER • TWITTER @BUTLER917
Oregon men’s basketball comes into games team early had a defensive identity; right now Carolina, Michigan State, Cincinnati and Ohio against USC and UCLA riding a wave of bad we don’t.” State. After the embarrassing loss to Liberty, news. Last week, star center Bol Bol announced Freshmen Francis Okoro and Miles Norris, head coach Steve Alford was fi red. he is out for the season with a foot injury. who Oregon planned on redshirting this year, e reeling Bruins found level in two victories Sophomore winger Abu Kigab announced are Oregon’s answers to the holes in the lineup over Stanford and Cal, but they come to Eugene he intended to transfer, while center Kenny left by Bol and Wooten. not far from a four game losing streak. If Wooten continues to sit with a broken jaw, But even if Oregon plays well to start the Oregon can slow the game down, it might be leaving Oregon with eight scholarship game, its short rotation might make it tough able to exploit a porous UCLA defense allowing players available. to end that way. e Ducks were already one 76 points per game. e departures’ impact was evident in the of the slower teams in the country in terms of Oregon’s challenge will be stopping Jaylen Ducks’ 77-72 loss to Oregon State. And while pace. With eight players in the rotation, it will Hands and Kris Wilkes from dictating the Oregon overcame an 18-point defi cit to almost be advantageous to go even slower to preserve offensive end. Together they shoot 40 percent win the game, the problems that got them down energy. e loss of Wooten and Bol is also of UCLA’s shots and lead the Pac-12’s second are tough to overcome. more than just missing bodies, they were two highest scoring offense. Bol and Wooten were some of the best shot of Oregon’s most talented players, and now the USC is also an athletic team that could be blockers and interior defenders in the country, Ducks will face a talent defi cit when playing trouble for Oregon’s defense. While they too but now Oregon has a defensive problem. e some Pac-12 teams. e more possessions have underperformed this season, including a Ducks allowed Oregon State to shoot 62 percent in a game the more likely two teams will fall bad loss to Santa Clara, they beat Stanford and from the fi eld, recording only two blocks during somewhere near their mean, which may not be Cal as well. e Trojan defense has allowed the game. Oregon State got too many easy what the Ducks need right now. opponents to shoot 44 percent from the fi eld baskets at the rim, something both UCLA and So Oregon’s second challenge in Pac-12 and it can be foul-heavy. USC have the athleticism to attack. play will be UCLA, a team that is 21st in the e Ducks could use a similar formula against “We’ve got to play with what we’ve got, and country in pace. However, UCLA has many of both Southern California teams. Oregon will then hopefully we do get [Wooten] back some its own issues. e Bruins have lost to Belmont probably be the underdog in both games, but time,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said. “But our and Liberty, and they were crushed by North UCLA and USC are no strangers to getting upset.
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