David Singleton shares how UCLA can go from a good team to a great team

UCLA has turned the corner the last two games after a two-game losing streak. But the team still sees room for improvement after winning two in a row. After beating Washington State this past weekend, senior guard David Singleton was asked how the team can elevate to a great team.

He highlighted the team’s freshman — Amari Bailey, Dylan Andrews, Adem Boma — and said he and his fellow senior leaders needed to continue helping them along.

“To be a great team, I feel like we just need to handle the little mistakes,” Singleton said after the win. “For us experienced guys, we got to erase the mistakes of young guys. We have we have a lot of freshmen, a lot of great freshmen: Amari Bailey, Dylan Andrews, Adem. They make freshman mistakes.”

While Singleton then added some more things they need to improve upon, he made it very clear that he and his fellow senior leaders need to step up.

“In order us for being a great team, first, we have to be a great defensive team,” Singleton said. “We have to move the ball, share the ball, trust each other, and we have to erase their mistakes. They’re gonna make freshman mistakes that’s who they are. We can’t control that. But what we can control is our effort to erase those mistakes and how you do that is with hustle, talking to them, extra talk to ’em on rotations and everything like that. I think that’s our next step.”

David Singleton relayed words of wisdom he told UCLA after the USC loss

David Singleton said he talked with his UCLA teammates after losing to USC about two weeks ago about how they should approach the next few weeks. It looks like it is working.

“So after film session, after we lost to USC, obviously we wanted to win it’s USC,” Singleton said. “So I held the players in the room and I told them we only have two more months together, pray to God we make it all the way, we only have two months with each other. So we have to value and cherish the game of basketball, not only for ourselves but for our families, for UCLA, we’re playing for something bigger than ourselves and I just stress that on the young guys.”