<p>And so it was on Saturday that I ventured down the 405 to the 105 to the 605 to the 91 to the 5 to Katella to see No. 1 UCLA take on No. 6 Texas A&M at the Honda Center. <br/>I predicted a blowout. I figured the Bruins had had a nice break from competitive basketball with their show-up-and-get-a-win victories over three consecutive Big West opponents. If there was going to be a game where the Bruins totally showed up before their meeting with Washington in late December, this was going to be it. <br/>As with a lot of things, I was mostly wrong on this one. <br/><div class=fright><font color=blue>SLIDESHOW</font><hr><font size=1><a href=http://www.dailybruin.com/slideshows/2006/12/11/mbballvtexasam/photos/slideshow.html>Click here for more photos from the<br>men's basketball game vs. Texas A&M.</a></font></div>The 65-62 victory by the Bruins demonstrated many things. First, UCLA won, and thus the Bruins demonstrated that they can beat a top-10 team, which cannot be discounted. It also demonstrated that the Bruins can win a halfcourt type of game, despite now being a more fastbreak-oriented team. <br/>But most importantly, it further demonstrated a trend for the season that could prove to be either good or bad for the Bruins down the road. <br/>There are four guys on this team who can score 20 points on any given night: Josh Shipp, Arron Afflalo, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute and Darren Collison. The problem appears to be that they cannot do it at the same time. <br/>Collison is the only one of the team who appears to be anything even remotely consistent, getting double-digit points in seven out of the first eight games. After him, however, inconsistency has been the only consistency. <br/>Mbah a Moute has had four dominant games and four games where he was basically absent on the offensive end, culminating in this weekend?s game against the Aggies in which he scored just four points and had just two rebounds. <br/>Afflalo has not been playing within himself, and that has shown in my new favorite word: inconsistency. He?s had four games where he?s scored 14 points or fewer. One game he was 5-18 from the field. For a guy who was talked up as an All-American candidate before the season, he has not demonstrated the offensive prowess necessary to be an All-American. <br/>Shipp has been relatively consistent, only having two games without double-digit scoring totals, but he has been plagued by occasional shooting woes. <br/>The point is, these guys cannot seem to put a complete game together. When Shipp is hot, Afflalo and Mbah a Moute are not. When Collison is hot, Shipp can?t be. When Luc is hot, no one else is. It?s like the premise of an LSAT logic game. <br/>That?s the bad part (you can tell because I compared it to the LSAT). <br/>The good part is that all of these guys have had great games this year. They?ve all been able to carry the Bruins for a stretch of games and they all have the potential to be truly dominant. <br/>Mbah a Moute had trouble on Saturday against the Aggies? physical front line, but he can be expected to do better. Shipp played more within himself on Saturday, and that can only bode well for the rest of the year for the Bruins. <br/>Last year, the Bruins had Jordan Farmar and Afflalo do the scoring, and then a cast of thousands who were expected to contribute enough to get the team above 60 points. This year, there is always the potential for these four guys to have a solid 60 to 70 points on their own. As many motivational speakers will tell you, the key for the Bruins is realizing their potential. <br/><hr><i>If a bell isn?t a bell until you ring it, and a song isn?t a song until you sing it, e-mail Woods at .</i></p><br><br><a href='; target='_blank'>;