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Madsen isn’t delivering on the court the way I had hoped, but I’m going to be holding out hope for a good while longer that the pieces just need to come together. Maybe that makes me a fool.

By the way, is momma Madsen okay? I haven’t seen her on here in a while.

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Happy to see Sissoko improving on offense; you can probably give some credit to Madsen for that. Hope he can sustain it.

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Cal is going to have to learn to handle pressure. They have not dealt with that well and that is the blueprint for every single team that they're going to play.

Opponents are going to press them and apply major pressure and that is the main reason we are turning the ball over. Also, Peja is getting the Stephen curry treatment. They are going to have to keep him moving, like steph.Curry does, or run some kind of motion offense to free him up. There is too much standing around which makes it much easier for the defense to slow them down. I'm having a problem with whoever is designing the offense.

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While I'm happy for Coach Madsen and the Cal team, Cal continues to struggle with fundamentals. In the last three minutes the Bears gave up two offensive rebounds on missed free throws and committed turnovers. The positives from this game was more balanced scoring, a modest increase increase in assists, and a return of 3 point shooting. The Bears need to learn how to capitalize when the have three extended possessions and a lead.

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We’ll put, Dr. P! Exactly what I was thinking. If a trap by NC State repeatedly leaves the Bears with one of their guards flailingly attempting to dribble through it, this suggests the coaches need to spend more time on this in practice.

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Nice win and it hopefully gets us going in the right direction. I'm confident that Mark Fox never would have won this game.

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That’s for sure. Not sure that they would’ve scored 50.

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NC State is bizarro Cal. Just switch defense and offense specialization. We should have been able to put them away, but we still pulled out a victory. Our guys dug deep and found a way.

We melted down against the trap so this is something Madsen has to work on. But that should be fixable since it's more of a scheme and practice issue than a talent issue.

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One thing Cal has to avoid is picking up their dribble in a corner. Especially when they just come over midcourt a stop in the sideline/midcourt corner. That's a terrible place to get trapped.

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And if someone is sort of trapped already why go behind the player to get ball. Now you have two players trapped. That was kind of funny.

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Cal could have closed this game out so many times, but they also could have have lost it several times

Great to see players battle all game in a wire to wire tight game, and keep their poise in crunch time

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Happy to have bragging rights with my uncle!

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