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Jan 23, 2023Liked by Alex Khalifa

Chef's kiss: "Philosophers and business schools alike will spend years pondering why Cal administrators thought going on record with national reporters about how much Cal athletics sucks as an institution was a good idea, but they did it anyway."

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" I suspect that Jim Knowlton has already made up his mind, and that Mark Fox will be relieved of his duties at the end of the season."

This assumes both that Jim Knowlton knows we have a basketball team, and perhaps less likely, that he cares at all.

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Jan 23, 2023Liked by Nick Kranz

Thanks for the article Nick! This was the first game of the season where it seemed the spark was waning for the players - they try so hard and I always appreciate their effort, as you noted. I feel for these young men, but this game we saw tons of silly mistakes (stepping out of bounds, three second violations, and the ever present clock violation risks due to passing the ball with 3 seconds left rather than just taking a shot). It was a painful game to watch and makes you wonder if injury and illness are not a signal of hopelessness on the part of our players.

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Jan 23, 2023Liked by Nick Kranz

Great article, Nick!! Thank you.

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Mozilla or bust

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Thanks Nick. It's just a waiting game now. No excuse for why Cal can't be a consistent March Madness team. Top place to live, study, play and get exposure.

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It did feel like the team was done with that game after about 15 minutes. With no one scoring, this game was ripe for another Joel Brown drive-fest ala vs CU, but he never took the chance. No idea why. Unlike in the prior stretch where Cal was either winning or competitive and were running their offense early, here they were passing the ball around the perimeter until the shot clock expired, and had regressed to being the team that lost to everybody.

I read PB's article about the UO game with interest, but the thing that struck me more than how the offense was sputtering is that the UO players can finish. They put the ball in the basket in a dazzling variety of ways, i.e. they have scoring talent. Look at any top team, it's the same. Cal's players have size, athleticism, some speed, but filling up the basket is not their forte.

Now I don't know if any or all of UO's (for instance) players would be academically eligible to play at Cal, but as Deion suggested that the bottom of the Buff's football roster take a hike, any substantive change in Cal's fortunes would require the bottom 2/3 of Cal's hoops roster bow out & get replaced with players with scoring talent. 'A-' high school students with scoring talent, and a desire for challenging college academics may be too few & far between for this to happen, but that's the tip of the iceberg of what it would take to change things.

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What are we doing?? sigh Mozilla

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Interesting piece. Thanks. Even Monty was singing the injuries tune on yesterday's telecast.

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