He has my vote!calgldnbear said:
Matt Bradley for President!!!!!!
bearister said:
Most fun being at a Bears game for a long time.
Lars reflections:
1. He went 3 for 4 from the field including a turn around hook with his left hand and a tip in;
2. He disrupted several shots inside from a long team.
How did Lars do compared to the pair of Husky freshman 7 footers? Oh, I forgot, they played zero minutes. Most freshman 7 footers are still working on putting their socks on properly and learning to tie their shoes.
I am very happy we swapped out Vanover for Lars. Vanover played worse defense than a 6th grade CYO player and he wouldn't be hitting the 3 ball if Lars was guarding him man to man defense.
Big C said:bearister said:
Most fun being at a Bears game for a long time.
Lars reflections:
1. He went 3 for 4 from the field including a turn around hook with his left hand and a tip in;
2. He disrupted several shots inside from a long team.
How did Lars do compared to the pair of Husky freshman 7 footers? Oh, I forgot, they played zero minutes. Most freshman 7 footers are still working on putting their socks on properly and learning to tie their shoes.
I am very happy we swapped out Vanover for Lars. Vanover played worse defense than a 6th grade CYO player and he wouldn't be hitting the 3 ball if Lars was guarding him man to man defense.
Understandable, given the game, but you're giddy. February/March Vanover was an awesome thing.
Probably the usual.slsYahoo said:
What's word on Juhwan Harris-Dyson
In the interview he was asked if he called "Bank", and he replied that he had called "Game".Mikeman said:
Did he call board when he launched it?
UrsaMajor said:
Curious about UDub's defense. I know their coach is a Boeheim disciple, but it seemed to me that with their length, they could be a lot more disruptive playing man.
Big C said:
Back from the game: Is this the record for fewest game-thread posts, conference game? Maybe I shoulda contributed from my mobile, during the game. Nah...
Nice win for the Bears! Where the two wins this week really help is for mid-season morale. The players and the staff and the fans that have been showing up needed a little something... and we got it! Now this goes down as one of the Top 100 Cal Basketball Games I've Ever Seen (in person or on TV), mainly because of the ending.
GO BEARS!!!
UrsaMajor said:
Curious about UDub's defense. I know their coach is a Boeheim disciple, but it seemed to me that with their length, they could be a lot more disruptive playing man.
The word is that we win more when he doesn't play.slsYahoo said:
What's word on Juhwan Harris-Dyson
The one advantage of playing a zone with a shotblocker in the middle is that the offense cannot compel your center to leave the key defensively. Not that that is the reason Hopkins uses it - he uses it because that's what he knows from coaching with Boeheim.ducky23 said:I was thinking the exact same thing. Especially when you have a shotbocker in the middle. They should be playing Romar type defenseUrsaMajor said:
Curious about UDub's defense. I know their coach is a Boeheim disciple, but it seemed to me that with their length, they could be a lot more disruptive playing man.
+1ducky23 said:
As someone who has been extremely skeptical of fox, this was very encouraging. ...
Completely agree with everything you wrote. I in particular thought Stewart was getting away with pushing and elbowing on offense in the paint, and it seemed to me he could have been called for 3 seconds multiple timesbearister said:
I also thought the Huskies were the beneficiaries of some generous officiating. They were getting away with over the back rebounds, body slams on loose balls and mugging us in the paint (all to make up for being a step slower than our wittle guys),
I was impressed with Thorpe's brief appearance and Kuany's 3 and the fact he wasn't afraid to put the ball on the floor a little bit.
it was an excellent win over a highly regarded team.UrsaMajor said:
Props to BI posters. Not one post (so far) saying we only won because UW is a terrible team.
They are far from a terrible team, but they were without, by far, their best PG (Quade Green)UrsaMajor said:
Props to BI posters. Not one post (so far) saying we only won because UW is a terrible team.
Certainly not terrible, but the Huskies were young and a little inconsistent in the preseason, following a great win over Baylor in their first game. Against Cal, they struggled some without Green, as they did against Stanford the game before. Green was having a really good year up until then, and now they are faced with finding a replacement for him. They don't have anyone of Green's caliber ready to take over. Without Green, they probably did not defend Paris Austin as well as they could have. I don't think we will know how good this Washington team we beat really is until after they have played say, 5 or 6 games without Green. Still, it was a very good win, an exciting one, and an unexpected one.UrsaMajor said:
Props to BI posters. Not one post (so far) saying we only won because UW is a terrible team.
ducky23 said:
As someone who has been extremely skeptical of fox, this was very encouraging.
My biggest fear was that this team was going to continue to lose, morale was going to sink and we were going to see some defections. And then the rebuild becomes impossible.
For any rebuild to be possible, you want to see buy in from the players. And that's what you saw today. They not only played hard, but they had a clear plan on defense and bought in to what fox wanted to do.
Considering how much losing this team has experienced the last few years, being willing to buy in like that (and not just quitting) takes a lot of character.
Whether fox can really rebuild this thing is still up in the air. But seeing the players starting to buy in is the first key step.
