Grant, Kelly, Austin, a healthy Jacobi Gordon, and Especially Matt Bradley can play ball. Departures: Sueing will be good to go wherever he ends up. I had hopes for McNeill, the man who can literally disappear from a stat sheet, if he could get his confidence level up (which I was positive was going to happen his last two years at Cal). Now that he is starting over and has to prove himself, he runs a serious risk of a permanent disappearing act. I like his humility and wish him well. JHD is hopeless and will never get off the bench. If you can't make a bunny at his age it is never, ever going to happen for you.
Vanover: I spent half the season hating on him and half the season loving him. He will never gain enough weight, he will never run the floor well and he will always be a defensive liability. Will his shooting continue on an upward trend and outweigh his deficiencies or, like ex Niner QB Steve Bono, as his playing time increases will he gyroscope back to his true mediocrity? With more play, he may be injury prone. Only time will tell. Roman Davis' departure, like JHD's, is little more than freeing up a scholarship.
Bring in a 4 pack of fundamentally sound scrappy Australians to plug the holes and lets win a few games with guys that want more than just basketball out their time at Cal. GO BEARS!
...and I forgot to add that the thing that tickles me the most about this whole sad affair is that the best player on our team, by a wide margin, Matt Bradley, appears as of this date to be staying. He will make his mark in the sports pages in the Bay Area these next 3 years and YOU CAN BANK ON THAT!
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