Golden Nuggets: 20 Questions with Harper Kamp
This week's guest on Faraudo's 20 questions is Harper Kamp.
Your five-man Dream Team, including yourself in the lineup: Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, myself and Tim Duncan. We could do some damage.
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Besides Cal, the Pac-10 school with the best basketball fans: I’ll go with Washington State. They show up early and don’t let up the whole game.
The worst: The Washington State fans are also the nastiest. They’ll pick up any dirt on you they can and they’ll say it out loud.
If you could be an Olympic athlete, other than basketball, your sport/event: Soccer
The sport you refuse to watch: There’s not many. As much as I love to play baseball, I can’t watch it much.
The actor who plays you in the movie version of your life: Jerome (Randle) always tells me I look like Justin Timberlake. I can’t handle that. I’ll take George Clooney.
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Least favorite kind of music: I’d have to go with pop music — Britney Spears-type stuff.
Best advice you ever got: Be humble and be hungry.
Favorite meal your mother cooks: Spaghetti — no doubt about it.
Food you will not eat: I’ve never tried anything that I haven’t liked and I’ve never seen anything that I haven’t tried. Maybe like cockroaches. I’ll stay away from insects.
Three people in history you’d like to have dinner with: John Wooden, Gandhi and William James — he’s my favorite author.
The smartest guy on the Cal team: Brandon Smith. He seems like a smart kid.
The funniest: D.J Seeley. He’s quiet and he’s not funny to a lot of people but he makes me laugh.
The best athlete: PC.
After the jump Ted Miller looks at Cal's recruiting needs, a WR visits Cal this weekend, men's bball routs the Ducks, and women's bball contains the potent Oregon offense in a solid road win.
Cal Football
- No Bears made the cut for Ted Miller's all-decade Pac-10 team.
- Ted Miller looks at Cal's three recruiting needs: linebacker, cornerback, and wide receiver. To help things out at WR, 2-3 star recruit Kaelin Clay is visiting Cal this weekend. With offers from Portland St, Northern Arizona, and Utah State, he is probably favoring Cal (at least, he should be).
- Craig Haubert of Scouts Inc breaks down Cal's small but talented recruiting class.
Cal Basketball
- After a sloppy start, Cal took complete control of the game with a 31-6 run en route to a 89-57 rout of the Ducks. PC scored 14 points in under three minutes to help Cal pull away during that run.
- Monty was pleased with Cal's hustle and effort on the floor. He's glad he had time to rest the starters as they get ready for Saturday morning's game against OSU. Asked if Jorge will return for that game, Monty said "possibly."
- Jamal Boykin called this game the team's "most complete game defensively" for not allowing Oregon to make a comeback, something the Bears have allowed several times this season.
- Another strong defensive effort helped the women to a 72-62 win over Oregon. Cal led much of the game and withstood several attempted comebacks by Oregon.
- Boyle was pleased with the defense, which muzzled an Oregon offense that averages over 90 points per game. Boyle says this is the best-conditioned team she has had. The team's aggressive, uptempo play has done great things for the defense.
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Some interesting stats
What’s with Brandon Smith shooting only 36.8% from the FT line?
Further, he is shooting only 27.3% from the floor overall, and has scored just 21 points in 146 minutes of action. I’m jumping ahead here, but Monty can’t start the kid next year with those kind of numbers. Gary Franklin Jr, the job is yours.
Jorge was somewhat erratic with the ball last year, and committed many turnovers. However, this year, he has the best Assist to Turnover ratio (39 to 15). Still, something tells me Monty will use him off the ball next year at the 2 spot and let Franklin bring the ball up.
We all know that Randle is money from the line (92.7%). And we have a pretty good idea about PC (81%) and Theo (77.8%) being consistent from the line. But when you add Boykin at 80.6%, you have a tough team to beat in a foul-comeback strategy game.
With one more recruit slot open this year, and only MSF’s gone next year, Monty will likely bring in 2 recruits for the 2011 class. How much you want to bet they will both be post players?!
What’s with Brandon Smith shooting only 36.8% from the FT line?
When a guy has a higher 3 point shooting percentage (40%) than FT percentage I think you can throw everything out as an incredibly small sample size. Besides, he shot 79% from the line in high school (Source: his bio HERE).
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