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Breaking News : Christopher To Return To Cal

We're not known as the CNN of the Cal Blogosphere (for nothing).  Last April, we were the first organization to break the removal of Ben Braun as the Cal Men's Basketball Coach.  This year, we are the first organization (to my knowledge) to break this year's news: Patrick Christopher will return for his senior season.  Sources VERY close to Christopher confirm that he will be back in blue and gold next year.  While this may have been expected, stranger things have happened and it's great to get confirmation that one of our big guns is coming back.  Christopher and Randle are Cal's best and most important players and will give Cal a chance to improve on this year's surprisingly good showing.  I for one am excited to see what they can do next year.

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This seems early to me, actually

I always expected P-Chris to come back, but I would hope that he got plenty of valuable evaluation out of the process.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Apr 8, 2009 1:58 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING

JAI HO!

by Rishi on Apr 8, 2009 1:59 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Interesting... BUT

what does Patrick Christopher like about Dasarte Yarnway’s skillset or Jarred Price’s motor?

Welcome back, South Beach LeBron. I look forward to your continued use of Hops™ and Skillz™ to aid our Final Four ’10 run.

HYDROTECH IS FREE!

by Thoroughbred on Apr 8, 2009 2:04 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

will I be allowed to watch in ’10?

Heaps and Hinder...come on down!

by carp on Apr 8, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

FUCK NO

HYDROTECH IS FREE!

by Thoroughbred on Apr 8, 2009 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

So does this mean he won’t be going through any of the pre-draft stuff? That’s bad news – playing basketball against other good players often would help his game, and the evaluation from scouts on what he needs to work on, and seeing how much farther he has to go to be a first round pick may have really helped him.

That said, it’s understandable not to participate in this stuff. From a personal standpoint, it’d be a huge commitment, and he does still have to attend classes and such as a student since he’d be coming back next year. I also believe he would have had to pay his way to everything to keep his NCAA eligibility.

by HyphyBearsFan on Apr 8, 2009 2:27 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

on that I cannot comment

I am unsure if he will continue to go through the pre-draft camps. I only know that he will be returning to Cal.

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by CBKWit on Apr 8, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

He should be playing in the pro-am summer leagues. Jason Kidd was playing in the San Francisco Summer ProAm before he went to Cal against the likes of Gary Payton. Christopher has done the Nike Big Man Skills Camp and the LeBron camps in the past.

Also, he’ll get evaluated by scouts but he probably won’t see those evaluations. The NBA teams own that proprietary information.

Stanfurd Delendum Est.

by Olsonist on Apr 8, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I don’t think he’d get a chance to read those evaluations word for word, but I have a feeling how he performs will be dissected over and over on the Internet. Not that what you read is always going to be 100% true, but it should be enough for him to see what the consensus opinion is anyway.

Still happy over the fact that the Nets signed Ryan Anderson. Now if only they can sign Leon Powe after this year...

by yellow fever on Apr 8, 2009 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Scouts

Will also let him know what he needs to work on to make it to the next level.

by LeonPowe on Apr 8, 2009 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Teams are gaming the players and scouts work for the teams. They’ll tell a player he looks awesome but then pick someone else. As they say, it’s a business.

Stanfurd Delendum Est.

by Olsonist on Apr 9, 2009 7:18 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Irresponsible post, flagged!

by zoonews on Apr 8, 2009 5:27 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

WHEW!

Somewhat expected… but I feel relived nonetheless. We’re going to need him.

HAIL HYDROTECH!

by danzig on Apr 8, 2009 8:04 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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