Cal Men’s Basketball junior guard Matt Bradley enters the transfer portal
Things does not bode well for Cal Men's Basketball's near-term future
The clear best player on the Cal Men’s Basketball team for the past two seasons may not be there for the 2021-22 season.
After three years wearing the Cal blue-and-gold junior guard Matt Bradley has reportedly decided to explore the transfer portal.
A source confirmed to Write for California that he is in the portal.
Bradley was Cal’s leading scorer in the delayed and shortened 2020-21 season when he averaged 18.0 points per game while shooting a robust 45.5% from the field, including 36.4 from 3-point land. The 6’ 4”, 220 lb guard also averaged 4.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. Bradley earned the Pac-12 Second Team honor for the second straight season, despite missing 8 games due to injuries to both ankles.
This is a developing situation, but this news obviously will alter the building plans of head coach Mark Fox in what would be his third season at the helm at Cal next school year.
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I see a few on this board putting Bradley leaving and/or Cal's general season woes on Fox, and I think that's too easy and simplistic. No one seems to acknowledge that Cal is the most desirable undesirable [sic] gig in D-1 hoops. It has a primo location and academic reputation, but how many aspiring NBA stars put those at the top of their lists? We're not a 'basketball school', have fluctuating administrative support, lack facilities, and have higher entrance requirements than almost every school offering D-1 scholarships. Lots of headwinds. We landed Fox, a fully competent coach, because he had been fired, had taken a year off, was under the radar, probably didn't realize what Bay Area housing costs were, and had no better offers. So, Cal could get him at a bargain rate, offering the 2nd lowest salary in the PAC-12. No way Cal would hire a Mick Cronin at $5M per. And Cal won't touch a coach with a checkered past, and Fox was as clean as they come. Only alternative would have been to roll the dice on a young up-and-comer who's willing to take on the challenge. Who's to say DeCuire would have even taken the job? And there's no guarantee he'd enjoy the same success at Cal has he's had at Montana, and he probably realizes that (see Mark Few). Cal had the opportunity to go for a known quantity vs a swing for the fences. They chose to go conservative, right the ship, stabilize the program. Now, how to attract recruits? Because I don't see our coach/savior anywhere on the horizon.
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