michelle makes 3 of 4 field goals & grabs 4 boards but only plays 12 minutes, the bears predictably get out rebounded 37 to 26 with their best rebounder & only +1 athletic post player riding the pine

Shocky1 said:

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michelle makes 3 of 4 field goals & grabs 4 boards but only plays 12 minutes, the bears predictably get out rebounded 37 to 26 with their best rebounder & only +1 athletic post player riding the pine

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I love Michelle's rebounding and sometimes her shooting and defense. She can do things nobody else on our team can. But 3 fouls and 3 turnovers in 12 minutes is a problem.

losing almost every pac 12 game is also a problem, not developing the only +1 athletic post is a problem, zero post recruits for 2023 is also a problem

the solution?

develop michelle which means she should've been playing 25+ mpg from day 1 this season, playing thru the fouls & turnovers, investing in a special talent

4 fouls will do that to you.

so will ineffective player development (lack of minutes/playing time in the pre pac 12 schedule)

I agree with shockster, especially this game where we were absolutely thrashed on the boards

Coach always sits her when she gets 4 fouls

Why not play her and see off that risk of fouling out reduces her 'bad' fouls?

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yeah leilani's off season hard work transformation from a pesky ball stealing defender/unselfish distributor/facilitator into a 3 point shooting threat is nothing short of remarkable...karisma ortiz needs a similar offseason developmental plan with respects to her shooting

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right now the bears gotta a pretty strong starting nucleus for next season with the top 3 scorers all returning in leilani, jayda curry (needs to get her body/conditioning right, faster & sleeker) & kemery martin (needs to be more assertive taking her shots) but the real prize is the team's only +1 athlete michelle ugonne onyiah who will finally start & get 30+ mpg, she is a generational talent....prediction: michelle will lead the pac 12 in rebounding & blocked shots next season

fun fact: did you know that michelle's 68.8% free throw percentage is better than around half the playing rotation guys on the men's team?

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One of the bugaboos this year is that we are shooting free throws worse than last year. And that includes Eva, Leilani, Jayda, and Eva, Up till now they had improved every year.

why is charmin by far the worst coach in the pac 12?

michelle leads the team in rebounds at 5 rpg despite playing only 13.8 mpg during another season that has not facilitated the on court development of this generational talent

the bears are basically out rebounded in almost every game which is why they also lose almost every game that isn't against a low mid major other than the epic usc upset...college basketball is best played these days by +1 athletes with size & length that are innately aggressive, the 2 posts that have started all season for the bears do not meet these specifications

onyiah is in the top 20 in the pac in offensive rebounds at 55 o boards, she is the only player on this list who has not started a game this season per the cal wbb press release...wut?

wanna bet that michelle won't start against washington state, that the bears will be significantly out rebounded again/give up 25+ points of uncontested layups in the paint again & that the team will lose???...the definition of insanity is doing the same thing unsuccessfully over & over and hoping for a different outcome... or will charmin finally give michelle a well deserved start & let her play thru 4 fouls?

charmin is a good person (she would be a terrific educator with afterschool basketball coaching duties on the playground) but a terrible collegiate basketball coach for a program that is tryna win games, at almost $500,000 she is grossly overpaid but the con artist will justify it as a title ix necessary expenditure

Shocky, when you get 4 fouls in 6 minutes, that will limit your rebounding. I don't know why you think that is OK.

wvit, since you seem to think michelle is basically uncoachable ("4 fouls in 6 minutes") & not because the head coach is absolutely inept in developing +1 athletic talent (it's likely smith will never recruit another generational talent like onyiah again to berkeley) how do you explain how michelle arrived in berkeley with a broken down crooked azz shooting stroke & now her much improved shooting mechanics thru hard work/long hours has resulted this season in a free throw percentage of 68.8% which is better than more than half the guys in the regular playing rotation on the men's team?

if michelle didn't play for such a terrible coach she would be leading the pac 12 in both rebounds & blocks along with averaging 15+ points per game & an all american

you don't think it's kinda weird that kinda unicorn elite talent hasn't started a single game this season on a team that gets out rebounded/gives up 25+ uncontested points in the paint in every game that's not against a low mid major team?

Shocky - you just said that Smith and her staff have coached Onyiah well to correct her shooting stroke.
So, apparently Smith can coach.

Onyiah had been fouling less until the Colorado game, so the coaching was working. I presume she doesn't start so she doesn't get in early foul trouble, when the team doesn't know how tight the refs are going to call the game. This would allow the staff to get a sense and maximize Onyiah's usage. She had a bad day against Colorado.

I also don't think Onyiah is a generational talent. She is not Hampton, Brandon, Gray or Anigwe. She could be close to those levels - Cal needs her to be close to, at least, a Brandon level.