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I'm ready to buy stock in the "Matt Bradley is our Russell Westbrook" type of player in the sense that he makes us "better" on paper but makes the team as a whole worse, no cohesion, too much reliance, and the dwindling of secondary scores and confidence within those players. Not selling this stock until the end of at least next season.

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I have no idea what fixes Cal basketball...but it's broken.

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sad game, which pretty much sealed our spot as 12th in the conference

I wonder why we completely abandoned the hedging defense when a pg gets a high ball screen

seems like opposing PGs get into the paint at will when they round the corner off a high ball screen

I guess we think our bigs aren't quick enough to get back to defend the roll?

in the games where we've been competitive, it's been our defense that was the problem

in this game, against the worst team in the conference (I still think Cal is better) it was our defense and our offense that was the problem

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Can't get worse than that. We know we are a bottom tier team in terms of talent and execution, and on an off night, this happens. Continue to feel like Fox gets at least next year. If we remain this bad all of next year, his third, then I wouldn't give him a fourth. It's on him to recruit and train. Three years is long enough to see marked improvement. Tell me that if Monty had taken over, it wouldn't be better. I like coach Fox just fine, and have written very positive things here about how the team morale seems to be good and the relationship with coach strong. But losing is losing, and three years will be enough of it.

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Missed Brown. Hyder not good.

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