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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Cal has 2 assists on 49 points.

That is horrible.

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PawlOski's avatar

The lack of ball sharing has worried me all year. And I’m not sure there’s an easy fix. EJ Campbell may help, but we have a lot of shoot first guys throughout the roster.

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concernedparent's avatar

He won’t. He’s another ball stopper. Rytis, Tucker, Blacksher (usually), and strangely enough, Dort, are the only willing passers on the team.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Need them to make the buckets if they're going to shoot.

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Bluehenbear's avatar

Another ticky tack foul while we keep getting mugged under the basket with no calls

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Bluehenbear's avatar

Come on bears

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

No dance this year

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AKBear's avatar

Refs were not good. Just returned from game. I’ve never seen Madsen so upset. He probably should’ve been T’d but because he’s so mild mannered, the stripes probably cut him some slack.

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Bluehenbear's avatar

Well shit

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concernedparent's avatar

Wow… again, HORRIFIC calls late in the game.

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Bluehenbear's avatar

He was set!!

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KetamineCal's avatar

Refs are killing us.

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Bluehenbear's avatar

Another no call

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Just TOO EASY.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Such a disappointing effort, given all that was at stake today.

Fear our brief period of competing with Stanford hoops went out the door with Haase.

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PawlOski's avatar

Worrisome performance. Stanford looks like a tourney team.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

They sure did today.

Cal allowing 91 ppg v. Vandy, Mizzou and Stanford is less than ideal. They can’t get stops and struggle to defend without fouling.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Dort has been getting blocked by the rim today. But certainly not that time.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Cal is lost on defense.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Petraitis is Ron Artest level pesky, though.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Absolutely. He’s a real heady ballplayer.

But the team as a whole gives up just too many easy buckets. Pits so much pressure on the O.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Yeah, I'm seeing they're not fighting through screens, not denying the entry pass, and I'm not seeing much help defense.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Andrej is killing them today.

Brutal.

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bigaddi's avatar

Cal's offense is infuriating. Way to iso heavy, which is fine when guys are hot but doesn't lead to consistent easy open looks. They obviously have talented players who can get buckets in iso but would make things easier on themselves with good ball movement and sets that are designed to get guys open looks

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PawlOski's avatar

If we could just get quicker ball movement on the perimeter, that would create better lanes for Blacksher, Andrej and Wilkinson, Tucker, DJ, etc. to drive and kick.

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concernedparent's avatar

So many ball stoppers on the team

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

There really is very little to the offense.

It’s the defense that is my concern.

This is a roster comprised largely of mid-major players - Power 4 squads can score on it far too easily tho. Far too easily.

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PawlOski's avatar

I guess playing all those years with Kobe rubbed off on Madsen.

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