unfortunately she jogs back on d & doesn't compete for loose ballsSFCALBear72 said:
Silver lining: Zahra King got extended playing time.
GOCAL73 said:
Duke is good but not great. ND the only great team in ACC.
yes, and they will, but not everyone has the long, athletic guard athletes to do what Duke didannarborbear said:
I think they will have to watch a replay and see how they were pressured into this many mistakes. Other teams will certainly be looking for what bothers us this much.
Plus, coming off two tough home games (wins!) against NC State and Florida State. Not much rest for the starters.polarbear said:
I can't imagine that the travel all the way across the country and three time zones didn't have some effect. Same with the loss to Clemson two weeks ago. That said, the Wake Forest game is now critical because Stanford will be very motivated to beat us the next week and we don't want to lose three in a row.
I kept saying the same thing at the TV - "slow things down"? Cal is not taking a shot until deep into the clock and even had shot clock violations. if anything, Cal actually need to speed things up to get past the Duke defense and get a shot up before the defenders were draped over the Bears. Except Cal was not quick enough to do that.RedlessWardrobe said:
Watching this game, several times in the first half the announcer kept saying that Cal needed to "slow things down."
Ironically the reality is, that with the defense Duke was playing our players didn't have the ability to "speed things up" in order to compete. So many times the turnovers came because our players were simply unable to move the ball quickly enough. Dropped passes, bad passes, Marta's first 3 point attempt she barely had a grip on the ball.
I don't really know how you fix this problem, other than playing this type of competition and over time and adjusting to it. The reality is, we don't face enough of this type of competition to even get accustomed to it. On Sunday when we play Wake, the good news is that we won't face the defense that Duke threw at us. The bad news is, the game won't make us any better.
Wouldn't necessarily agree with that as far as this season goes. In most of the games this season the deficiencies you are speaking of have been minimal. But last night because of the defensive intensity and agressiveness that Duke brought, those issues did indeed resurface. Often last night I found myself saying "killed the dribble too early" and before you could blink the game was out of reach.bearchamp said:
Simple things would have helped. Like knowing what one is going to do with the ball BEFORE stopping the dribble. Not dribbling into defenders. Passing early. Setting real screens of the ball. Some things never change.
they played their starting center to the end of the gameSFCALBear72 said:Plus, coming off two tough home games (wins!) against NC State and Florida State. Not much rest for the starters.polarbear said:
I can't imagine that the travel all the way across the country and three time zones didn't have some effect. Same with the loss to Clemson two weeks ago. That said, the Wake Forest game is now critical because Stanford will be very motivated to beat us the next week and we don't want to lose three in a row.
In the spirit of sportsmanship, why was Duke still shooting/attempting 3-pointers at the end of the 4th quarter? Not pleased with that.
Charmin and the staff will have them ready to go on Sunday. I'm sure the players are anxious to get back on the court to show this game was an anomaly.
Go Bears!!
