Big C said:
Alkiadt said:
oskidunker said:
No one ever got an open look. Everyone afraid to shoot, for good reason. This season will be worse. I can barely watch. Its so boring.
First game with pretty much 6 new players.
Let's see what improvements come with more games.
This. Fer gosh sakes, these exhibitions. Remember that time when Eric Vierneisel had like 63 points in that exhibition opener? (Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit; he had 4 three-pointers.)
Bears need to shore up some things, but some guys flashed. We might win more than last season, but we might not. Let's play the games and find out.
Actually, Eric Vierneisel turned out not to be too bad, just average, more or less, but it was a big letdown from his string of made threes that first exhibition game. He was a reserve for most of his career, and became a regular starter in his senior year. He averaged .326 on his threes for his career, which is slightly below average (Sam Singer, Ty Wallace, and Jaylen Brown might have liked to have had those numbers), and 48% on twos, and 72% on FTs, both of which may be average or a little above. He didn't rebound so well, but he took very good care of the basketball, averaging less than one turnover per game and in his final year, when he was a starter, his assist:turnover ratio was 2.0, which is excellent. He gave Cal four years.
As for Vanderlaan, he was another average player, who left Cal after two years to play a year at Virginia. I won't comment further, as I don't often follow players who quit the Cal team to play for another team.
SFCityBear
