https://instagr.am/p/C6cZ5ObvvFs
california golden bears 63
auburn tigers 59

ugonne foul watch: a very physical game against sec +1 athletes that the refs let the ballers compete...a defensive guarding foul in the 1st quarter, yet another moving foul screen (which is just bad coaching/lack of player discipline) with happy feet in the 2nd quarter, a reach in foul in the 3rd quarter & a defensive foul in the 4th quarter which benched michelle with 7:06 left in the game...but played like a boss in the final minutes finishing with 11 points, 8 boards, 2 blocks & a gazillion altered shots in the paint!!...michelle, ur hyped up but u gotta stop with the swinging elbows

jayda noble: she is a ******* bad azz, plays basketball with intense hustle & physicality, let's ******* go jayda!!

Snatched 🏀 pic.twitter.com/1K8nLd7Qrf

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) November 23, 2024

lulu twidale: got ice in her veins, let if fly, lulu, let if fly!!...22 points on 7 of 11 field goals & 4 of 8 three pointers & 6 rebounds!!

TIED GAME! LET'S GO!!! pic.twitter.com/ahMO1qeeHS

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) November 23, 2024

ionna krimili: 14 points on 5 of 10 field goals but more importantly 6 unselfish assists!!

the bench: 1 point no es bueno, scoring development is critical

turnover watch: 29 turnovers is gonna lose a lotta acc games, the starting point guard can't have 7 turnovers but her teammates need to help out by moving towards her when she's trapped by uber athletic defenders



bottom line: program building WIN for them 6-0 california golden bears!!

alexa play deja vu by olivia rodrigo https://t.co/iPMYwLOv4G pic.twitter.com/lUAwfqclc7

— Don Grizzell, Ph.D. (@golDonbear) November 23, 2024

visited with michelle again before the big game & we both laughed about her unscripted exuberant expressions of happiness at the victory winning clock expiration vs auburn!!...we also discussed the fundamentals of setting a non moving screen...ugonne tole me the team will head to palm springs on monday

https://instagr.am/p/DC2ZjhDS0Sg
michigan state spartans 78
california golden bears 72

ugonne foul watch: 5 fouls & gonzo, game over...michelle dominated in the interior with 10 physical rebounds plus 5 for 13 field goals but the bears are not gonna beat elite opponents with onyiah playing only 21 minutes

gabriella abigor: a quick twitch +1 athletic defensive presence with a soft touch around the basket offensively, gabby's upside is literally unlimited!!

turnover watch: 20 turnovers is unacceptable for a starting 5 with this much experience playing high level collegiate basketball, it's too messy

left to right: gisella "super lefty" maul, michelle "impose ur will" onyiah, kayla "the roadrunner" williams, lulu "let it fly" twidale, ionna "mykonos" krimili & lola "lockdown defender" donez

california golden bears 74
arizona wildcats 62

ugonne foul watch: 2 fouls on contested shots & a critical potential 3rd one (that would've sent michelle to the bench) that wuz remarkably not called by the refs when onyiah went vertical defensively but gotta lotta body on the wildcat driver...25 points on a redunkulous 11 of 14 field goals plus a dominating 13 rebounds...michelle is finally starting to figure **** out (not blaming the refs for all her past seasons dumb azz fouls is a good starting point) & beginning to fulfill the shocky prophecy of stardom

20 points for Michelle! 👊 pic.twitter.com/UvSSmGesxM

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) November 27, 2024

most insightful quote of the coach charmin era: "michelle is one of the best post players in the nation when she does what she's supposed to do"

the x-factor: the cal bench needs to provide a lot more production if this team is gonna successfully compete in the acc & make a run in march madness, texas transfer gisella maul's clutch 10 points, 4 boards & only 1 turnover in 20 minutes wuz the winning difference in this afternoon's bears win

Gisella Maul 10 points today! pic.twitter.com/OVg1cGnrh3

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) November 27, 2024

the great barrier ocean reef: watching lulu twidale's beautiful SMILE & drain 4 of 8 3 pointers along with a perfect 6 of 6 free throws en route to 18 points is a joy to watch but more impressively she took a brutal violent collision & came back later to compete...lulu is UNBREAKABLE both mentally & physically!!

SHOOTER 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/f8MIE5ejwO

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) November 27, 2024

question of the day: how does the shortest person on the court get 7 rebounds??...answer: kayla williams is a roadrunner, BEEP BEEP!!

turnover watch: 21 turnovers is gonna lose a lotta acc games, the next week's practices need to focus physically on passing drills & tape review of the cognitive angles/decision making of those passes

next opponent: nationally ranked alabama is gonna invade haas pavillion on thursday december 5th, a sec victory will likely earn the bears a spot in the top 25 rankings...will the fans show up & will innovative marketing (will markeisha & knowlton get off their lazy azzs??) sell this fascinating program that gotta opportunity to be SPECIAL this season??



sweat equity (who r u honoring??)#

^ fun fact: shocky selected berkeley over stanford & multiple ivy league actionable offers to honor the legacy of his back in the day poor as **** tiger moms who grew up above a dry cleaner in san francisco & tirelessly worked her azz off to become a berkeley grad & the 1st person in her family to earn any college degree

https://instagr.am/p/DC5It26Szgr

Let em know siete!! pic.twitter.com/85Z3iNcYpJ

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 7, 2024

california golden bears 74
pacific tigers 66

ugonne foul watch: early offensive foul due to lack of body control & then a defensively contested shot with a body on the shooter resulted in 2 first half fouls...another moving screen in the 3rd quarter wuz not called but a holding foul on an inbounds play wuz caught for foul #3...4th foul with 6 minutes left in the game on a 50/50 ball...a clear 5th foul defensively fouled onyiah out & then a totally unncessary selfish mouthy technical foul closed the gap...michelle, ur gpa/academic ambition is outstanding, don't be a dumb azz on the court!!

lockdown defenders: after playing candy azz soft d in the 1st quarter giving up a 21 points to a slow as **** mid major, jayda noble & gisella maul brought experienced physicality to the game along with coach charmin changing the d scheme to a zone which resulted in the tigers scoring an anemic 5 points in the 2nd quarter which turned the game around

bench rotation: more minutes for gabriella & jayda, less minutes for true freshman lola (her shooting mechanics need work/development, luv her unselfish hustle)

ionna krimili: the greek arts grad student in berkeley gotta quick release & a beautiful stroke with a squared up shot, it's fundamentally beautiful!!...22 points on 4 of 9 3 pointers...the unforced turnovers (5) on mentally not disciplined sloppy passes not so much

marta suarez: 21 points & 4 turnovers...fans talking **** to marta, **** around & find out!!

3 point shooting: always challenging on an unfamiliar court away from berkeley, 7 of 26 trey shooting & the 21 turnovers kept pacific in the game with lulu's dagger to the heart the final blow to the tigers

free throw shooting: this team will be very difficult to beat in close games with it's ELITE free throw shooting, almost 80% today on 23 of 29 charity tosses

turnover watch: a beyond breaking bad 14 turnovers in the 1st half, finished the game with 21 turnovers

scheduling: good strategy on playing in a different gym but not leaving nor cal & not spending time (berkeley finals are in 2 weeks in berkeley) or money (bus trip, no airplanes/hotels) with the afternoon game in stockton...the big game on friday december 13th hosting stanford at haas pavilion is gonna be EPIC for them california golden bears (9-1)



off to the races#

CAL WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UPSETS #19 ALABAMA!!!#GoBears!!! 💙💛🐻🏀 pic.twitter.com/8k8bC8RcD5

— Matt (@nosoupforgeorge) December 6, 2024

michelle, stanford is gonna bring the physical (body to body interior violent banging intentionally baiting u to retaliate/foul out) dogs of war to berkeley next friday nite for the BIG GAME, r u gonna compete with mental composure & not argue with the refs in staying outta foul trouble & leading ur team to a victory??

real talk: u almost cost ur teammates a win & u lowered ur wnba draft stock (do wanna get PAID?) saturday afternoon with ur delusional paranoid attitude against the refs...read this thread documenting every foul of yours this season, the refs r NOT the problem

https://instagr.am/p/DDNiroAp0KS
don't be a dumb azz#

CAL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TAKES DOWN PREVIOUSLY UNDEFEATED NO.19 ALABAMA

69-65 Bears for its first AP Top 20 win since March of 2020!

Cal moves to 8-1 on the season and beat both Auburn and Alabama at Haas 😮‍💨 pic.twitter.com/GT7tmASVTx

— Thomas Dunn (@Thomasdunn24) December 6, 2024

Best Universities in the World, 2024:

1.🇬🇧 Oxford
2.🇺🇸 Stanford
3.🇺🇸 MIT
4.🇺🇸 Harvard
5.🇬🇧 Cambridge
6.🇺🇸 Princeton
7.🇺🇸 California Institute of Technology
8.🇬🇧 Imperial College London
9.🇺🇸 Berkeley
10.🇺🇸 Yale

Times Higher Education

— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) April 29, 2024

At Tap Haus.

Nothing to be said but Go fucking bears pic.twitter.com/hF3wXznOOk

— Matt H (@korealaska) May 4, 2024

the MAGIC of cal basketball#

https://instagr.am/p/C5bqV5sS9fn
MAJOR cal's monster class announcement from michelle onyiah:

"after much prayer and thought, i've decided that due to the relentless targeting efforts of every referee on planet earth to unfairly foul me outta every basketball game at absolutely no fault of my own, i've decided that i will no longer be persuing a wbna career at the end of this season & will instead be joining the cal women's softball team!!"

"please respect my decision, thank you!!"

Quote:

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MAJOR CAL ATHLETICS ZOOM CALL:

is scheduled for this thursday by beth tafolla-voetsch with donors re: the future of cal athletics (tryna get fundraising going for non revenue sports, good luck with that "time share sales pitch"), the participants will include chancellor lyons & ron riviera but most notably NO JAMES ARTHUR KNOWLTON!!

is this **** getting live or not?? (as the world turns in berkeley)#

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update: in speaking with MULTIPLE sources the cal internal nil fundraising will be led by beth tafolla-voetsch who wuz the lead person on the zoom call...ron rivera did not participate on this call

knowlton did speak in his nasal blah blah blah which is a clear indicator that lyons does not intend to commission dan mogoluf to terminate him at this time...a complicating factor is the women's swimmers lawsuits costs if both jimbo & jenny are fired for failing to protect the best interests of berkeley students which they have clearly done on a borderline criminal level

lyons outlined some of the existential financial challenges heading towards berkeley with reduced future state of california support & downsized federal grants projected in the future...yet the chancellor has not given a clear mandate that the financially hemorrhaging (via loans from the central campus that will never have the future revenues for repayment) athletic department needs to cut sport teams (teams such as rugby should be club sports with zero university funding) & reduce bureaucratic costs at this time but unrealistically thinks donors are gonna continue to donate to the athletic department

lyons made it clear that he supports the revenue sports but that there will be consequences if they don't win big in the very near future...but he's gonna keep knowlton which means markeisha will continue to not offer FREE tixs to all students...as a failing worthless bureaucrat everett has done absolutely nothing to brand/market/grow the cal football fanbase at memorial stadium while increasing the # of tarps...and both the men's & women's basketball programs are also not generating more gameday revenues with an empty haas pavillion despite clear demand for affordable basketball tixs in the bay area (the valkyries got 20,000+ season tix deposits)

The best fans in the game – period.

20,000 season ticket deposits and another day closer to tip-off at Chase Center. Let’s keep making history together. #JointheAscent pic.twitter.com/vMOlRc6qk3

— Golden State Valkyries (@wnbagoldenstate) November 12, 2024

lyons favors reducing costs for programs that cannot raise enough funds to operate autonomously but that is flawed reasoning...for instance the baseball team has spent nearly all the original funds raised by stu gordon & next season the ncca is increasing the # of schollys from 11 to 34 which will be necessary in order to be competitive in the acc...so instead of just cutting baseball which got minimal fan interest for a roster that is predominantly middle class white young men and repurposing evans diamond for the greater good of the berkeley campus, the lyons plan would just reduce their schollys to some minimal # which would result in them losing big time in the acc with exponentially increased travel costs

lyons is willing to fund the internal nil for the upcoming year & realizes he's gonna take a lotta heat from the greater berkeley academic community but isn't willing to make a change in the failed leadership of the athletic department today & then transparently cutting sports (self sufficient club sports)/reducing costs immediately

bottom line, after decades on the berkeley campus rich wuz in a position on day 1 to direct dan mogulof to terminate knowlton & jenny while demoting markeisha but he's opted to instead further fund & allow the irresponsible financial spending of the athletic department to continue while asking non receptive fatigued donors for bail out money to pay for the current bureaucratic bloat

shocky loves rich's spirit & good intentions but 100% disagrees with his non transparent plan to not replace immediately replace failing management & streamline costs in the athletic department...the lyons plan would never work in the REAL WORLD or corporate america & it's not gonna work at the current #1 ranked public university in the world

rich is an outstanding human being on planet earth & we're very lucky to have a FUN chancellor who truly bleeds blue & gold, just hoping he will reconsider his strategic direction, go bears!!

https://instagr.am/p/DC16Ir5PaEt

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as mentioned above there is some really BAD NEWS barreling towards berkeley, some of the tsunami has already arrived on campus in the eradication of the men's & women's basketball fanbases (which is basically a core of loyal old blues in their 70s/80s with no material growth in the development of a younger fanbase due to incompetent ineffectual marketing/branding which also means there aren't any future Builders of Berkeley in the pipeline

women's basketball attendance (bears are almost nationally ranked at #28):

st marys-1231 attendance
idaho state-5066 (area kid's rock schooldays 11 am tip off, this event predates markeisha)
san jose state-1288
grambling-1153
auburn-1341
alabama-1431

both the auburn & alabama games wuz against nationally ranked opponents

men's basketball attendance:

bakersfield-3.472
cal poly-3,023
air force-3,631
sacramento state-3.662
mercyhurst-2093
stanford (the BIG GAME)-6,089
cornell-3,035

WINNING is not the solution, it's not the magic wand in building a fanbase with new fans, the expansion wnba team via brilliant marketing got 20,000+ season tix deposits for the valkyries which have never won a single game!!...the greater bay area is basketball crazy for an affordable (the golden state warriors are for the rich as **** 1%) FUN option in financially challenging times as evidenced by the 11,000+ sold out hostile/high energy crowds back in the cal's monster class era which inclusively (not hiding behind a premium board) celebrated the MAGIC of cal basketball (those days are clearly in the rearview mirrah)

if chancellor lyons is gonna allow knowlton, jenny & markeisha to continue to degrade the revenue sports on his watch, rich might be the only person in the stands at future games at memorial stadium & haas pavilion

what are you going to do, rich, ur running outta TIME??

https://instagr.am/p/DDXvcueOpV-
berkeley is watching as the TSUNAMI barrels towards campus this december#

😱 VAMOS MARTA!!!! 😱 pic.twitter.com/zge6GRAaFO

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 14, 2024

the MAGIC of cal basketball (let it fly, marta!!)#

Shocky1 said:

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https://instagr.am/p/C5bqV5sS9fn
MAJOR cal's monster class announcement from michelle onyiah:

"after much prayer and thought, i've decided that due to the relentless targeting efforts of every referee on planet earth to unfairly foul me outta every basketball game at absolutely no fault of my own, i've decided that i will no longer be persuing a wbna career at the end of this season & will instead be joining the cal women's softball team!!"

"please respect my decision, thank you!!"

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Dear Shocky,

How are you?

I am fine. Ok, maybe really fine.

5 BLOCKS (which is more than the bears football wideouts made all season), 7 boards AND ONLY ONE FOUL, can u believe this ****??

Go Bears!

Michelle Ugonne Onyiah

MICHELLE!!! pic.twitter.com/AoFFh8XyqL

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 14, 2024

https://instagr.am/p/DDjCc8hxLtY
^ this is wut TRUE LOVE looks like both from their words & their actions, someday these remarkable student athletes will go their separate ways after earning berkeley degrees yet they will retain close bonds with one another knowing that true love will never DECEIVE u!!

yeah lulu that wuz the best player media interview in the history of cal athletics (#2 wuz a true freshman marshawn audibly crying tears of joy in his 1st press conference evah after the las vegas bowl back in the day)

"ITS WUT WE DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"



the MAGIC of cal basketball (all starts with michelle staying outta foul trouble)#
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/cal-wbb-earns-greatest-ever-win-over

coach charmin (paraphrased): "told michelle, we don't need super heroes, we just need u on the floor!!"

https://instagr.am/p/DBe424-ufCA
this is cal basketball (playing basketball on a basketball court with a basketball with ur best friends is FUN!!)#

https://instagr.am/p/DDuquGbS1wW
message to the cal wbb creative team: ur missing a huge branding opportunity by not posting a video of lulu's EPIC "IT"S WHAT WE DO!!!!" interview surrounded by her teammates, this is arguably the best interview in the history of cal athletics!!

the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the world (including spain, greece, australia, etc.)

https://instagr.am/p/DDkoNQKyz22
this **** is getting live!!#

The California Golden Bears (10-1) are off to their best start through 11 games since the 2016-17 season.

Four of their ten wins have come against Power 4 opponents, including No. 19 Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, and Stanford. Their only loss was a competitive 78-72 game against… pic.twitter.com/CsuDWYpfrw

— I talk hoops 🏀 (@trendyhoopstars) December 14, 2024

wut's ur gpa??#

the university of california, berkeley=#1 ranked public university in the WORLD (for those that r mentally limitless with NO EFFORT, it's something in ur veins)

california supreme court documentation re: prop 101 that unselfishly sharing the basketball with steve kerr/theo robertson kinda rapid ball movement without dribbles WINS basketball games!!

🚨Buzzer beaters are our thing 🚨 pic.twitter.com/jQM8V9BXmw

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 15, 2024

attendance vs austin peay: 1428

it's a shame this team is poorly marketed by incompetent bureaucrats like markeisha everrett & the evil as **** jennifer simon-o'neil whose lack of innovation/branding is killing women's basketball (along with football & men's basketball too, tix sales are anemic in all sports), winning more games is NOT gonna bring new fans inclusively into the tent

cal wbb should be sold as a value play throughout the basketball hungry greater bay area (in conjunction with partnerships with the wildly popular/successful new wnba franchise which has NEVER won a basketball game) & a tremendous price friendly FUN family event along with a welcoming invitation to those that are not berkeley grads which requires months of community outreach/sweat equity PRIOR to the season (the current lazy azz "dope" strategy is just sending emails to the current declining football sr citizen fanbase which just get quickly deleted)...this is realistically not gonna happen under the knowlton/everett/o'neil administration (that is enabled by lyons while he cheers from the end of the bench in an empty haas) & that's really a SHAME

The Bears have entered the chat! 💬

For the first time under head coach @21charmin, Cal is back in the @AP Top 25 Poll!

📰: https://t.co/oQYXMJq6aS pic.twitter.com/fawd3RYXjZ

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 16, 2024

https://instagr.am/p/DDn4bDVPyTk

marketing update: the cal wbb creative team has opted to not capitalize on the potential branding of the program by circulating the EPIC lulu postgame stanford celebration surrounded by her teammates when she stated "THIS IS WHAT WE DO!!!!" which could've been a viral statement re: the cal's women's basketball program on a much larger stage than it's operating on right now

failing worthless bureaucrats markeisha everrett & jennifer simon-o'neil instead are in charge of the non creative/innvoative inept "flash sales" tix drive by sending emails to current football tix buyers than have never evah attended a cal wbb game & that will simply delete these non effective/persuasive emails

https://instagr.am/p/DChrVEopOTl
employ worthless bureaucrats & find out (about lousy attendance/tix revenues)#

And-☝️ pic.twitter.com/cKypvLKO2c

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 22, 2024

california golden bears 69
fordham rams 53

ugonne foul watch: 1st foul a minute into the game on a hack to a shooter around the rim in the 1st quarter...2nd foul a minute into the 2nd quarter for pushing on the offensive end...3rd foul for body on body on an opposing post near the bucket...an obvious 4th foul for swinging elbows on a turnaround made jumper wuz not called by the refs but a defensive foul in the 4th quarter wuz called...the foul trouble kept michelle off the floor & fordham in the game but onyiah still scored 15 points with 6 boards in only 22 minutes

Move..get out the way 🎤 pic.twitter.com/iankTbAiXz

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 22, 2024

gabby: abigor plays with bouncy enthusiasm/+1 athleticism & demands the ball when she smells blood in the water against a smaller post, gabriella's upside is unlimited

Woah 🪄 pic.twitter.com/8OSPMahqki

— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 22, 2024

turnover watch: 21 turnovers is gonna lose a lotta acc games, ionna with 6 tos & kayla with 5 tos wuz particularly undisciplined with their passing/ball handling

next game: the bears (12-1, ranked #24 in the nation) compete again tomorrow nite at 6:00 pm at haas pavilion against the winner of temple (5-4) vs xavier (4-6)...3 starters played 30+ minutes which no es bueno with respects to potential fatigue in 2 games within 24 hours

temple match up: like cal (12-1) in defeating xavier 66-51 temple (6-4) had 3 starters play 30+ minutes tonite, potential fatigue with back to back games in the 1st 24 hours shouldn't favor either team

michelle is gonna have her hands full tomorrow, temple's 6'1" senior amaya oliver from stockton is gonna be fired up to play her last collegiate game in nor cal...oliver relentlessly grabbed 14 rebounds including an unreal 11 offensive boards!!

Amaya getting physical for the 🪣 pic.twitter.com/X4LnV0p7sH

— Temple Women’s Basketball (@templewbb) December 15, 2024

onyiah gotta play with disciplined composure & stay outta foul trouble particularly with marta suarez potentially not available at full strength to bang inside with oliver...there's no need to put body on body on oliver more than 6-7 feet from the bucket, she does not pose a perimeter shooting threat so keeping space in defending makes a lotta sense particularly in effectively blocking her out & keeping her off the offensive glass

michelle gotta play smarter than an average bear if the team is gonna emerge 13-1!!

https://instagr.am/p/DC5dsNevqRz