ClayK said:

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The season is about one-quarter over and Twidale is shooting 23.1% from three.

This is a major concern. If she doesn't start shooting better, she needs to start shooting less.

Puff looks like a freshman point guard trying to adjust to the next level up. Right now, she's ineffective, but we have to stick with her.

Turnovers are very difficult to control. You can avoid turnovers by making safe passes. But safe passes won't generate offense. What does generate offense is the ability to beat defenders off the dribble. When that happens, the defense must help, passing lanes open up and safe passes can be made to wide-open shooters.

I don't have time to watch much, so tell me: Have Cal perimeter players shown the ability to break down P4 defenders off the dribble?

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The only player who can consistently do that is Mjracle. Lulu sometimes when defenders are tight. And yes, Puff still has work to do. There's things here that Puff can't get away with like she did in high school.

As far as Lulu reducing her 3 point shooting, I don't agree. She's a great shooter, we need to keep her shooting, but the real task is to have the offense get here more open looks.

In this game, we did have trouble getting past Auburn's quick defenders. Which is one reason we took 28 three pointers out of 50 shots. Sheppard looked a bit slower in this one, possibly from a lingering injury.

Cal only had one double-digit scorer (Lulu) vs Auburn. She almost scored 40% of the team' s points. Actually, Twidale put up 36% of the offense. Based upon the Bear's lack of balance on offense, I would conclude that Lulu needs to keep taking her shots. I predicted that Cal would be held to under sixty points for the initial time of the season. I didn't anticipate that they would only reach 50. Wow!