Cal Women's Basketball vs. Arizona Open Thread
by norcalnick on Jan 28, 2010 6:30 PM PST
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The Cal women being their mid-season, four game home stand with a matchup against the Arizona Wildcats. While Cal may be able to boast about the strongest freshmen class in the Pac-10, Arizona can boast about having the Pac-10’s strongest performing individual freshmen – guard Davellyn Whyte. Whyte has successfully turned the power of the extra y’s in her name into a 17.9 scoring average, good for 2nd in the Pac-10 - she shoots the ball well from anywhere on the court. Arizona is also led by all-around threat Ify Ibekwe, Arizona’s 2nd leading scorer. Ibekwe does everything for Arizona and leads the team in rebounding, assists, steals, blocks and free throw assists. Cal’s primary concern on the defensive end will be stopping Whyte and Ibekwe, tasks that will probably fall once again to Eliza Pierre and Natasha Vital.
When they played the Sun Devils Arizona primarily played a zone defense. If Coach Niya Butts sticks with the zone the bears would really help themselves out by forcing Arizona into some turnovers so that they can get out and run in transition before Arizona sets. If not, Cal may struggle without the threat of good 3 point shooting to stretch the zone. If the shots aren’t falling offensive rebounds will be needed to fuel the offense. Cal could also really help the cause if they can get Whyte or Ibekwe into foul trouble. Hopefully one of those two draws Alexis Gray-Lawson on the defensive assignment.
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Even if Ibekwe has a strong game...
…UA is susceptible to turnovers…Cal’s defense should be able to generate some scoring in transition.
Question though: Washington seemed to think that Gray-Lawson was Cal’s top defender. Might she guard Whyte?
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Hmm, interesting thought. When you talk about Gray-Lawson you’re always talking about her offense. I’ll try to pay attention to that today.
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Gray-Lawson apparently took Whitcom (Wash leading scorer) while Pierre took Kingma (strong shooter) and did most of the pressuring on Morton….
Will be interesting to see… and maybe they did something different against Washington…
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Sadly, there will be no basketball for me tonight...
Why can’t people schedule these get togethers with colleagues around my basketball schedule????
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Shantrell Sneed doing color work!
Pierre banks in a 3, Cal down 12-10
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20-13 Wildcats with AZ going to the line
Defense has not been good – Ibekwe in particular has had her way so far.
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24-21 AZ
Oddly enough, Cal is staying in the game with 3 point shooting – they’ve already taken 10, way more than they usually do.
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Hi norcalnick. I’m joining you now that the men’s game is done. How are we looking?
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I won’t be here on Saturday, because I’m going to the game. How do you think Cal will match up with ASU?
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When I saw ASU play Arizona, they pressed much of the game, and that’s something that scares me since Cal is vulnerable to turnovers when another team pressures effectively. ASU seems to spread the ball around – they don’t rely on 1 or 2 players to make them go.
Cal seems to play every non-Stanfurd Pac-10 team the same – We rebound and defend well enough to stay in the game, but we don’t play great enough offense to run away with it. Sounds like another close game is in the works.
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I just hope it’s exciting. I’m bringing a friend from my Cal days who has never been to a women’s basketball game before. It would be a bummer if we didn’t play well.
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I’ll be at the game as well with my wife. Hopefully all of the CGB presence won’t mess with the current mojo
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5 point Cal lead at halftime
Cal has made 8 3’s (8-15 over all) to only 5 2 pointers. Up is down, left is right, dogs and cats living together! Mass Hysteria!
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Around the Pac-10
Whoa, ASU is up 4 on Stanfurd at halftime! It would be nice if somebody beat them, if only to show that the Pac-10 has some depth to it. It would only help come tourney time.
Also, UCLA up 3 on Oregon and USC up 7 on OSU – both at the half.
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Do you think there is any chance Cal could still make the tournament this year?
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Women's hoops?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jan 28, 2010 8:00 PM PST up reply actions
Lexi now with 20, Cal up 3
I love how automatic she’s been from the line lately
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Now 22
To quote the announcer, I think this is Lexi’s 5th strait ‘out of body experience’
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Cal up 7, Lawson with 26
This run is just unbelievable. She’s hitting shots she has no business hitting.
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48-38 Bears!
Lawson with 30. Just another day, no big deal.
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Vital and 1!
The only way a Bear is getting a FG is on a putback from a Lexi miss
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OK, I’m back from doing Twist’s bidding. Did I miss anything awesome? I did manage to catch Lexi’s crazy drawn charge. Wow.
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Federico has gotten lots of playing time today – makes me think that all of Cal’s 3’s are by design from Coach Boyle to help play against Arizona’s 1-3-1 zone.
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Federico is pretty much a 3 point specialist. Greif and Vital are both capable of hitting them, but they’ve been cold most of the year. Vital has been heating up lately though.
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I’ve seen Pierre hit a few, but a couple have been a little ugly – bank shots and the like. Pierre and Clarendon have been shooting similar percentages as Grief and Vital, but I’m giving the seniors the benefit of the doubt since I’ve seen them shoot well from 3 in the past. Frankly, nobody has been good from deep this year besides Lexi.
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You said that Arizona is the least best of the four teams Cal plays in the next two weeks. How do you rank the other three teams?
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I still think UCLA is the 2nd best team in the Pac-10, even though they lost to USC. I think they’ll pay back the Trojans in Pauley. I don’t know what to think of ASU quite yet. I would say that USC and UCLA are both a little better than the Sun Devils. 2 out of the next 3 would be totally awesome, and we need serious payback against USC for what they’ve done to us over the last year or so.
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Victory!!!
Spectacular performance! Cal outplayed AZ in almost every phase of the game!
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It seems like the team has started to come together. But how much of it is Lexi being hot?
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Tough to say. There are a number of potential factors to the improvement, with Lexi’s insane streak and beating weaker teams. But Cal has been playing much better on defense, and they’ve been taking much better care of the ball (only 10 turnovers today!)
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She's been incredible recently!
I wish I could get the games on tv out here. I don’t think I’ve seen more than one game all season.
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Did anyone see the Chron's piece on Lexi today?
They have been neglecting Cal shamefully this season, so I was glad to see Lexi get yet more love:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/28/SPS41BOIRI.DTL
(Most of the comments had been deleted by the Chron, meaning some knuckledraggers were bashing the women’s game, and rudely, too. Grrrr.)
Anyway, BearBloke and I were at the game, and very happy to see the girls win again. How does Brandon manage to grab 15 rebounds and only one or two fouls?
Awesome article! It should be posted in its own fanshot! Thank you for bringing it to our attention!
Calnet, paleodan and I caught the second half of the game (after watching the men’s game at T-Rock with CBKWit and others), and man was it ridiculous. Lexi just shone, and lit up the floor. Every time she touched the ball, something happened. A three, swished field goals, three-point plays, you name it. Arizona played tough for a bit in the second half, but Cal never let their lead get smaller than 7 points, and it was 20 by the time the game was over.
The freshman have definitely improved since the time I saw them almost 2 months ago vs. Saa Jose State – so much so that Lauren Greif didn’t play in the second half, and according to the stat sheet she only played 4 minutes the whole game). It’s best for the team to play its best players, of course, but it’s really for me to not see Lauren play, because she’s a good player and deserves more for her senior year. But those are the breaks….
Too tired to expound further, but a great and exciting second half for the Bears, especially Lexi. Go Bears!!
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