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Last: 2 yr ago by wbbilluminati
"When you say the name Eliza Pierre to a true Cal women's basketball fan, you will undoubtedly get a smile in return,"
Purrrrrr!
https://calbears.com/news/2021/6/11/womens-basketball-eliza-pierre-returns-to-cal-as-assistant-coach.aspx
We love to see it!
Purrrrrr!
https://calbears.com/news/2021/6/11/womens-basketball-eliza-pierre-returns-to-cal-as-assistant-coach.aspx
We love to see it!
What a bonanza!!! Made my day!!!
Presuming that Kai now goes to a non-coaching position, that will be an all new assistant coaching staff this coming year. Explains why Charmin wanted to go with several people with whom she is familiar. Hope that they can also recruit.
Why is Kai going to a non-coaching position? I wondered how Cal would pay for four assistants when they always had three previously. Eliza Pierre must be 29 years old now...I am hoping that Kelly Cole, the former HC of Northeastern, can implement an offensive scheme that works for the Bears. I hope Eliza along with HC Charmin Smith can focus on defensive concepts like the full court press and the half court trap to create turnovers. Hopefully, Paul Reed can improve Cal's post play/rebounding as well as our collective recruiting over time.
2021-22 Women's Basketball Roster - University of California Golden Bears Athletics (calbears.com)
GO BEARS!
2021-22 Women's Basketball Roster - University of California Golden Bears Athletics (calbears.com)
GO BEARS!
I thought teams can only have 3 assistant coaches
The current roster shows Kai, Kelly, and Eliza listed as "Assistant Coach" and Paul listed as "Assistant Coach (Recruiting Coordinator)". Dunno if that distinction matters.
Eliza is a great addition to the staff. She's the first Bear WBB alum on the staff, and a key member of the Final Four team to boot. She'd be a great coach to help prepare incoming frosh PG, Jayda Curry, for the rigors of D-1 ball.
Eliza not being a good recruiter would be more surprising than her excelling at it.annarborbear said:
Presuming that Kai now goes to a non-coaching position, that will be an all new assistant coaching staff this coming year. Explains why Charmin wanted to go with several people with whom she is familiar. Hope that they can also recruit.
They just updated it so that Kai is no longer listed as an assistant coach.
stu said:
The current roster shows Kai, Kelly, and Eliza listed as "Assistant Coach" and Paul listed as "Assistant Coach (Recruiting Coordinator)". Dunno if that distinction matters.
I feel that is a great move. I feel Kai was not getting the guards to reduce passing errors and shooting was poor. good job Charmin and congrats to Eliza.
Do any to the commentators here have any empirical evidence that Eliza is either a good coach or a good recruiter? Or, are you just relying on the fact she went to Cal and has been hired?
She has four years as an assistant at UCSB - so there is some empirical evidence. But, I don't know enough to tease out her influence.bearchamp said:
Do any to the commentators here have any empirical evidence that Eliza is either a good coach or a good recruiter? Or, are you just relying on the fact she went to Cal and has been hired?
In terms of defensive statistics:
Last year, Gauchos had 14 assists per game, (Cal was at 9.1) but also turnovers at 15.5/game (overall) and 14/game (conference) (Cal was at 20.6).
Gauchos' opponents shot 42.6% (overall) 40.6% (conference - Cal opponents shot 42.7.
Gaucho opponents shot threes at 32.5% (overall) and 29.2 (conference) - Cal opponents shot 34.5.
I believe the Gauchos have recruited pretty well the last couple of years. Injuries have hurt them. They had the freshman of the year a year ago and she got hurt this year.
Kai may be the only coach that has young kids. She may want to not travel as much.
Kai may be the only coach that has young kids. She may want to not travel as much.
Ile Lane was the player who was hurt.
Eliza has coaching promise. But I hope that she does not try to teach shooting. She was, unfortunately, the best example of someone whose shooting form should have had a makeover her freshman year,
As an alum, I have always thought UCSB should be a mid-major powerhouse. There's no nicer place to live than Santa Barbara, and the league isn't that strong. I don't know about facilities, except that the Thunderdome is nice.
So looking at the roster, if Pierre recruited Ila Lane and Anya Choice, then she did a good job -- but I have no idea who was the lead on those two. Otherwise, it's not an impressive group, at least in terms of reputation coming out of high school and won-loss record.
As for teaching defense, it's really not that hard. Defense is pretty much about effort and a system -- and if the effort is there (and some athleticism), the system doesn't matter much (any one will work to some extent).
Pierre was a brilliant individual defender with an instinctive knack for angles that coupled with her athleticism made her one of the best I've seen. Now if she can teach how she used her angles then she could be a big help. That said, UCSB was not dazzling defensively, so it's hard to say.
In other words, wait and see ...
So looking at the roster, if Pierre recruited Ila Lane and Anya Choice, then she did a good job -- but I have no idea who was the lead on those two. Otherwise, it's not an impressive group, at least in terms of reputation coming out of high school and won-loss record.
As for teaching defense, it's really not that hard. Defense is pretty much about effort and a system -- and if the effort is there (and some athleticism), the system doesn't matter much (any one will work to some extent).
Pierre was a brilliant individual defender with an instinctive knack for angles that coupled with her athleticism made her one of the best I've seen. Now if she can teach how she used her angles then she could be a big help. That said, UCSB was not dazzling defensively, so it's hard to say.
In other words, wait and see ...
So happy to Eliza back at Cal. Remember, she was a GA at Cal for, like, one day, before UCSB came calling. She's like family to Terri & me. She's the reason I got into Cal WBB as a fan, and a donor. My apologies in advance, but I will be acting a straight fool at their games this year. WELCOME HOME ELIZA!
Patience is a virtue, but I’m not into virtue signaling these days.
Fyght4Cal said:
So happy to Eliza back at Cal. Remember, she was a GA at Cal for, like, one day, before UCSB came calling. She's like family to Terri & me. She's the reason I got into Cal WBB as a fan, and a donor. My apologies in advance, but I will be acting a straight fool at their games this year. WELCOME HOME ELIZA!
No need to apologize, I think plenty of us feel the same way. I personally am ecstatic. Plus we get to see this team in person in Haas.
FWIW Kai is now listed on the roster page as "Special Assistant", the others as "Assistant Coach".wvitbear said:
Kai may be the only coach that has young kids. She may want to not travel as much.
I think Ila Lane opted out of playing bc of covid before the season, not sure she was injured