You may be the first to mistake shahar Gordon for Amit Tamir

drizzlybear said:

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Ha! I knew the answer was Joe Shipp. But I also thought Shahar Gordon would be on the list for that huge game (30 points?) he had against Oregon, which I thought included a high/record number of threes at the time.

Celestine has shown he's a player from day one. Last year he was one of the few diamonds in the rough of a very rough season. What he's doing this season is not a surprise. If anything, I would like to see him be more aggressive and create his own shot more often. I realize he has had some bad moments of aggressiveness, and Fox promptly yanks him and chews on him when that happens. But I don't think we've yet seen what JC can do with some confidence and aggressiveness (and full health?).

I spent a lot of bandwidth last year defending Fox. Not because I thought he was proving to be a good coach (the jury was always still out for me, as it still is), but because I objected to those who I thought had given up on him way too quickly and wouldn't recognize the decent job he did in Y1 nor would they acknowledge the particular challenges the team faced last season (primarily in the off-season). That said, while it's been fun to see Cal basketball play consistently watchable (and even fun) basketball so far this season, I still think the jury is out until I see two things: a) how this team does in the conference schedule, b) what his recruits do. On that latter point, Alajiki has been a revelation (great energy, tough defense/rebounding, AND a remarkable shot from the arc so far), but haven't really seen anything from the others yet (though I realize health has been an issue so far).

Bottom line: fun, encouraging, but need to see it in conference before I'm all in.

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Drizzly you are thinking of a different Israeli, Amit Tamir, not Shahar, who preceded Amit by a year or two. That game against Oregon was one of the funnest games I have attended at Haas--back when Haas was rocking! [Edited to add I see Ducky beat me to it]

Kuany injured still? DNP

MSaviolives said:

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drizzlybear said:

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Ha! I knew the answer was Joe Shipp. But I also thought Shahar Gordon would be on the list for that huge game (30 points?) he had against Oregon, which I thought included a high/record number of threes at the time.

Celestine has shown he's a player from day one. Last year he was one of the few diamonds in the rough of a very rough season. What he's doing this season is not a surprise. If anything, I would like to see him be more aggressive and create his own shot more often. I realize he has had some bad moments of aggressiveness, and Fox promptly yanks him and chews on him when that happens. But I don't think we've yet seen what JC can do with some confidence and aggressiveness (and full health?).

I spent a lot of bandwidth last year defending Fox. Not because I thought he was proving to be a good coach (the jury was always still out for me, as it still is), but because I objected to those who I thought had given up on him way too quickly and wouldn't recognize the decent job he did in Y1 nor would they acknowledge the particular challenges the team faced last season (primarily in the off-season). That said, while it's been fun to see Cal basketball play consistently watchable (and even fun) basketball so far this season, I still think the jury is out until I see two things: a) how this team does in the conference schedule, b) what his recruits do. On that latter point, Alajiki has been a revelation (great energy, tough defense/rebounding, AND a remarkable shot from the arc so far), but haven't really seen anything from the others yet (though I realize health has been an issue so far).

Bottom line: fun, encouraging, but need to see it in conference before I'm all in.

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Drizzly you are thinking of a different Israeli, Amit Tamir, not Shahar, who preceded Amit by a year or two. That game against Oregon was one of the funnest games I have attended at Haas--back when Haas was rocking! [Edited to add I see Ducky beat me to it]

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Thanks for correcting my memory (and to ducky23 as well). I should've googled to make sure. I see now that Tamir had 39 pts in that double-OT game and was 5-6 from 3.

The imbedded clip shows 6 of Grant's 7 treys:

Recap: Grant Anticevich's career night leads Cal men's basketball past Pacific, 73-53


https://sports.yahoo.com/recap-grant-anticevichs-career-night-012206671.html