We are obviously not a great team, but this is bad by even mediocre standards. This team definitely plays below their average talent.

blungld said:

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We are obviously not a great team, but this is bad by even mediocre standards. This team definitely plays below their average talent.

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but do we? After a whole season, we are dead last in the league in 3-point shooting. Perhaps that is our talent?

Hire better student athletes.

So we are getting scoring from everyone except our two best scorers

Maybe that's their defensive strategy… stop our best players and make others beat you

Our defense is still a big problem

Furd beating irish 46-39. 7 min left

So with one more score we would get to single digits with 9 minutes left

We even had open shots but missed

Now it's back to a blow out

It's telling that Blacksher can only have a career game on the wrong end of a blowout.

A shooting 53% and 48% from 3

Despite our terrible offensive performance our bigger problem is still defense

HoopDreams said:

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A shooting 53% and 48% from 3

Despite our terrible offensive performance our bigger problem is still defense

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Cal plays Pitt Tuesday in theACC tournament

The good news is we held Syracuse player McCool scoreless

JimSox said:

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Notre Dame beat Stanford! We need to beat ND to get that 14th win, or win our first tournament game. To do that, just play actual defense and make a shot once in a while.

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Won't be easy but I expect our shooting percentage-will be decent.

Deez Nuts.

I only watched the first half, but thought Cal's defensive effort was generally good. I'm a Petraitis fan, but his defense is not always disciplined enough. There was no point in him fouling Waterman (I think his third foul). The guy had position as well as ~3 inches on Petraitis, who should have just let him score. Sometimes energy and effort are not a substitute for good judgment.