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Stanfurdstinks's avatar

Phewww. Hopefully, lesson learned.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

The 1H shooting stats were kind of an outlier, though this team misses way too many shots in the paint.

Bigger issue long term is the drop off in talent level of the bench and the eye test shows they are just not playing well.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Kocanas always looks pumped when he comes in. Have we tried him instead of Ilic with the 2nd unit?

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

He just really not be ready to contribute.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

JFC, 2 bonehead techs tonight for a team that was down at half to a D2 team.

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IroniCALly's avatar

I suspect MM will have some things to say about. He benched DJ since his, which was really poor form.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Maybe the benching will extend into the next game and a better option emerges? Does anyone happen to know DJ's +/-?

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Oh hello TT.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Finally some defensive intensity that's translating into points.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Yup.

Still plenty of red flags tho if we’re talking NCAA Tourney. Getting Rytis back is huge…hopefully he can return otherwise NIT is gonna probably be the ceiling.

Which would still be fantastic given the past decade…but CBB is so much more fun when Cal’s in the March Madness discussion.

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KetamineCal's avatar

Conference play is going to reveal some harsh truths about our depth. Rytis has been the quintessential 6th man and the 2nd unit frontcourt is otherwise lacking.

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Big Dog's avatar

a D2 team shooting 49%? Gonna get crushed on Tobacco Road

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Well, thankfully they have those teams here, but they’re still going to get crushed. Louisville too.

Can this team win v the GA Tech’s, BC, ND’s….etc.

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IroniCALly's avatar

What is the injury report on Rytis?

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Actual injury not disclosed yet but it was a previous one he seemed to re-aggravate around fUCLA game. He struggled with a lower body injury last year he played through.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Madsen is going to have to tweak his rotation come ACC play.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Justin Pippen has shown he belongs.

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IroniCALly's avatar

Reality check. Better now than conference. How will the team respond?

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

The 2nd unit remains a major issue that limits the ceiling of this club, especially if Rytis is out long term.

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Big Dog's avatar
1hEdited

Does Dorsey deserve any Minutes?

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

He was always a question mark on O, but the D was supposed to be a little better. Maybe it’s the calf injury.

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IroniCALly's avatar

Yeah. Was hoping for more out of DJ Campbell. Don’t know if rusty still, or just not that good.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

It’s the role he’s in. He showed last year that he’s not a 20+ mpg guy at this level.

He’s an 8-10 guy off the bench.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Egads, the Nolan Dorsey, TT, Ilic & DJ Campbell combination continues to be a disaster.

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KetamineCal's avatar

TT looks better playing with the starters, at least.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Agreed.

MM has to sort out the rotations.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Yeah, this Cal team is not dancing. I was hopeful but just not seeing it.

NIT would still be good and definitive progress.

Year 1 under Madsen: competent.

Year 2 under Madsen: competitive

Year 3 under Madsen: best roster yet.

MM definitely has us on the right track but still too many mid-major talents on the roster to make the Dance. Need to find some donors.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

This is not good.

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MBrew3's avatar

No kidding, shots are not falling.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

20% from the field, 1-15 from 3.

Better, but still not a good enough shooting team to make the Tournament.

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dcblue's avatar

I tuned in as I was getting ready for bed and heard those stats. I guess the only good thing is they can’t be much worse as I’m sleeping.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Maybe this will get TT, Dorsey and Milos going offensively…still not enough data on them at this level to know if they’ll be able to give you anything in league play v the stacked ACC. Based on 2024 season, Milos likely has more in the tank than he’s shown.

Also hoping for big minutes for Kocanas and Dut.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

We saw our answer.

Not good.

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Matt's avatar

I didn't know who a couple of those guys were so I looked at the roster. I noticed that three guys were listed as grad students enrolled in a certificate program at UC Extension. I'm curious, is that a relatively new option? I had assumed you needed to be accepted to a graduate degree program to be eligible. Not crying about it; just curious.

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KJ1980's avatar

Go Bears!

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Richard's avatar

Aren't they a Div 2 team? Is this an exhibition game? Will it count as a win?

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Big Dog's avatar

yes it counts. And I woudl not assume a W at this point.....

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

It will easily be the worst loss of the year in all of College Basketball if they don’t figure it out in 2H.

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