calbear80 said:
Last year Cal MBB beat Stanford in Palo Alto. Tonight we play Stanford in Palo Alto.
If Cal MBB is at least at good as last year (which was horrible), We should beat Stanford when we play them tonight in Palo Alto.
Here is a chance for this coach to show that he is at least as good as last year (never mind showing improvement in the second year). We will all see by 10 PM tonight.
Maybe, the defenders of this coach can start listing all the excuses below.
Go Bears, Beat Stanford!
Good grief, please stop helping the "defenders of this coach." Barring some miracle finish to the season, I want Jones gone, and I expect him to be gone if Knowlton finds the money.
But if the court of public opinion matters, making incredibly stupid posts with incredibly stupid thread titles in order to be negative towards Jones only helps Jones in the court of public opinion, it makes people who aren't paying attention and don't know what is going on more sympathetic, and gives the "defenders of this coach" ammunition to say that the detractors are incredible idiots.
Others have pointed out problems with the title and the post, there are other problems, but it is so obviously stupid it does seem a waste to point out the problems. Good grief.
But if you want an excuse for winning last year at Maples and losing this year, number one is that there is a really good chance that Stanford will suck less in the game at Maples this year than they did last year. Did you even see that game? I still don't know how Cal won that. Well, I kind of do, but for the first 30+ minutes, Cal was terrible. RIght before Sueing got a layup with 9:01 left, the Bears were down 17. They were down 13 at the half, and it would have been more than a 17 point deficit 10+ minutes later except that Stanford seemed to put things in cruise control. The Bears were playing like a team that had ZERO chance of winning that game, and Stanford was playing like they thought the Bears had ZERO chance of winning that game.
And then Stanford fell apart. In the last 9 minutes, they went 3-13 from the floor, 3-7 line, with 4 turnovers. This helped Cal to get a lot of transition buckets (because it isn't like our halfcourt offense all of a sudden because great), and we went 10-15 from the floor to close out the game. We still turned the ball over 3 times, and went 4-6 from the line, but we hit the last 4 FT's. A really stupid foul that gave Reid Travis an and one on a layup turned a 3 point game into a 6 point game with just under two minutes left, but Stanford managed to choke from there, a miss, a miss, an offensive foul, 1-2 from the stripe, and a miss, whle Cal hit the next three shots, a Lee jumper, an Antecivich 3, and a Sueing layup with the and 1 to give Cal the 2 point lead. Stanford still screwed up, 1-2 from Travis at the line after a foul on Lee, then forced to foul Coleman who hit both, and Stanford misses a 3 as the clock winds down.
You think it was the brilliance of the coach that brought us from 17 down? You think that he was that brilliant for 9 minutes on December 30, 2017, and then lost after that, and if he can't do it again in this game, he isn't as good as he was last year? Sure, Cal played some good D for a 9 minute stretch, and they made most of their their open shots, the Lee and Antecivich clutch shots being big, so give Cal some credit for the comeback, including the coach. But a lot of the credit has to go to Stanford for SUCKING, and while just for being Stanford, they suck, they may not suck so bad tonight.
Good grief, your stupid argument makes as much sense as anybody saying that the coach is better this year because he beat the first place team in the conference this year, something the Bears surely could not have done last year.
Please, please, stop giving the "defenders of this coach" legitimate arguments that his detractors are morons. Please.
