[calbearsfan]

could be up more as we have 14 turnovers and 7/16 from foul line. Gen already with 14 rebounds. Excellent defense holding ODU to 6-29 (20.7%) shooting

[annarborbear]

That was truly ugly. Need to settle down in the second half.

[OBear073akaSMFan]

Originally Posted by annarborbear

That was truly ugly. Need to settle down in the second half.

..have to play smarter. Too many fouls...

[Ted]

10 out of 24 FT, 24 turnovers @ 9-minute, 2nd half

[CalFanatic]

Originally Posted by OBear073akaSMFan

..have to play smarter. Too many fouls...

This is such ugly basketballI almost want to turn off the live feed... we look as disorganized as ucla did when they played notre dame

[annarborbear]

Back to the drawing board for the Duke game. Won't be getting as many rebounds in that one.

[stu]

Couldn't get the video, but horrible stats all around:

23-60 FG, 38%
1-8 3FG, 13%
16-32 FT, 50%
25 fouls (4 each on Brittany, Layshia, Talia)
10 assists, 25 turnovers

But we held ODU to 17-60 FG (28%) and pulled down 66 rebounds to ODU's 33.

What was the officiating like?

[pearbear]

Yeah, pretty that was not. It was like last year--turnovers, poor free throws, charges, lots and lots of missed shots and thus rebounds...

I guess the positive is that even when ODU got it down to 4, Cal never seemed to panic and had a semblance of an offense and rebuilt the lead.

It will be very interesting to see what happens on Sunday.

GO BEARS!

[BearBint]

Originally Posted by stu

What was the officiating like?

For the most part, BearBloke and I thought it sucked. But we are biased.

While Cal is the (far) more talented team, ODU is very good at drawing fouls and forcing turnovers. Luckily, the fouls were doled out evenly--and LG and her crew were smart with their substitutions.

[annarborbear]

The front-line did a great job of rebounding, but shot poorly from the field and at the line, and also had a combined 15 TO's. Gen Brandon - 17 rebounds, but 4-15 shooting and 7 TO's. Talia - 2-9 from the line. Need to clean this up for us to be a great team.

[BearBint]

Originally Posted by pearbear

I guess the positive is that even when ODU got it down to 4, Cal never seemed to panic and had a semblance of an offense and rebuilt the lead.

Exactly. They didn't panic (although at one point during the last 7 minutes I thought Layshia, of all people, was going to kill someone). They kept cool and won. To me, that is a real improvement over last year's November and December games.

[santacruzbear]

Cal's relative success has made me a fan of women's basketball. But it's not easy. Today's basketball game between Cal and Old Dominion was basically unwatchable. Consider these numbers: Cal had 25 turnovers, and was 16-32 from the foul line and this was against a slower and much smaller team. It's more than these crazy stats. It's the number of absolutely stupid plays and calls by players and refs. These girls have been playing since they were kids so you would think their instincts would be sound. But you see a guard rebounding, then moving up-court unaware that 2 defensive players trail and are racing to poke the ball away. Or a 6-2 player gets a rebound and starts to dribble. It's the equivalent of a 7' man doing the same. What are the odds of not turning it over? Or driving the middle against an unmovable wall of three players. Or a ref, and this happened in the game, w/less than 2 seconds in the half and the ball 35 feet from the basket calling a foul on the defensive player after the offensive player fumbled the ball on her own, w/o contact, and then both players scrambled for the ball.

Cal's three headiest players are Jemerigbe--who plays under control, can put the ball on the floor and reach the basket and rarely makes mistakes, Talia and Clarendon. Pierre is pretty sound too. Boyd has miraculous skills--it's hard to imagine a super-quick player who is a better dribbler and passer and you can't press her--but she often tries to do too much. In the last few minutes Old Dominion cut the lead to 4, after it was 8-13 basically the whole game and Gottlieb took her out I bet because she didn't want to risk a turnover. Boyd came back in when Cal increased the lead and just needed to kill time yet twice in a row she drove, risking a turnover. She scored neither time. Cal's bigs, except for Hartman, should never shoot from more than 5, make that 2, feet away. Yet Brandon and Gray continue to do so bricking shot after shot even close in.

Brandon had 17 rebounds, probably 15 in the first half.

If Cal plays like this against a good team they deserve to lose by 50.

[2TheHoop]

Hopefully we just had to get the ugly stuff out of the way. Wow. Will look forward to Sunday and hope we perform.

[stu]

Originally Posted by santacruzbear

If Cal plays like this against a good team they deserve to lose by 50.

Old Dominion is a pretty good team. But I agree we'll have to play a lot better against top-5 teams.

[CalWBBFan]

First road game sounded ugly so hope they got it outta their system. Must clean up TOs and hit those Dang free throws.

I will watch later on DVR. Duke will require higher level of play and I expect Bears to meet the challenge and play quality ball. Here's hoping anyway.

Glad they will have had couple days to settle in.