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Ken McKee's avatar

Nick, you’re a Beautiful Loser! Keep up the great work.

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Ken McKee's avatar

Seriously, I read all of your posts. You capture all the joy and angst of Cal football better than anyone. And, as I am functionally illiterate about basketball, you’re providing a much needed tutorial. Keep pounding the keyboard.

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Nick Kranz's avatar

Very kind of you to say, thanks!

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KetamineCal's avatar

You mention what I had noticed on replay, that Dai Dai did a great job avoiding the foul. Makes his shot even MORE impressive. He not only took the team on his back, but he showed great situational awareness while doing it. Hero shit.

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sup_doe_library's avatar

By the time Imes finally commits the foul (intentionally) Ames is in his shot motion. Easy and-1 call there.

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Agreed.

What were Emes, Omes and Umes doing on the play?

;-)

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GoldenBear88's avatar

Last night was payback for the "immaculate offsides" call in 2022.

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Rose Bowl Oski's avatar

I respectfully disagree because you're implying that the refs got it wrong both times. There was no offsides in '22. There was a foul in '26.

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hoopdreams's avatar

Good breakdown

It’s funny that some ND fans arguing that the two foul attempts should have been called

I haven’t seen one complaint that the 3rd foul attempt was called (think about how illogical that is in any sport besides basketball)

But if the ref didn’t call the 3rd attempted foul than Dai Dai would have hit the 3 and presumably the game would have gone to OT

So they are arguing a very narrow case based on a very judgmental call, which could only be overruled if there was clear video evidence the call was wrong

I don’t even know whether that narrow situation was even reviewable

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Bhec's avatar

Great game. I still think Bell needs more plays run through him. He's our pure shooter down the stretch.

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Stanfurdstinks's avatar

Dai Dai is the clutch guy though....I would put it in Dai Dai's hands at crunch time (as you saw).

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BFores's avatar

Thanks for writing this. I wasn’t able to watch the game so I didn’t understand the big drama

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Jimmy Chitwood's avatar

Lotta crybabies in the social media world.

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Wiata78's avatar

Sunday January 4,

Cal WBB down by 1 at NC State at the half

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Bear26alum's avatar

The most important positive message I got from the refs reversing their outrageous initial reversal is that , for the 1st time in a long time, Cal did not get “homered” at our own home. I credit the influence of MM. Let’s hope this trend carried over to other sports (e.g. football and baseball) where crucial judgement/subjective calls have lost us a lot of games over these many years.

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ThinkLongTerm's avatar

Awesome game! Great writing! Go Bears! Maybe call a foul on Cal’s ADs for allowing so many empty seats?

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Nick Kranz's avatar

Perhaps, someday, Mike Williams and Jim Knowlton will pay for their crimes.

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Terence's avatar

It was clear as day from where I was sitting (high above the basket, and right in front a bunch of mad Notre Dame fans)

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