Golden Nuggets: Jamal Boykin Named Pac-10 Player of the Week
by Berkelium97 on Mar 1, 2010 5:00 PM PST
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PrintOft-underrated forward Jamal Boykin earned Pac-10 player of the week honors for his performances against Arizona and ASU. His consistency has been an anchor for Cal's success all season.
A native of Los Angeles, Calif., Boykin helped the Golden Bears clinch a share of the Pac-10 title for the first time since the 1959-60 season. In wins over Arizona and Arizona State, Boykin averaged 17 points on 14-for-22 (64 percent) shooting from the floor and 8.5 rebounds.
In Thursday's 95-71 win over the Wildcats, Boykin scored 20 points and pulled down 10 boards for his sixth double-double of the season and 12th of his career. Playing in 37 minutes, he was a perfect 6-for-6 from the charity stripe. In Saturday's 62-46 victory over the Sun Devils, Boykin was 7-for-9 (78 percent) from the field, scoring 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds in 32 minutes of action.
For the season, Boykin ranks third in the Pac-10 in field goal percentage (59 percent) and eighth in rebounding (6.7 rpg). He is averaging 11.6 points and ranks second on the team in free throw percentage (86 percent).
After the jump Jahvid Best shows the NFL that he is silly fast, Theo plans to join Faraudo for a live chat, women's water polo sets an NCAA record in a marathon 8 overtime match, and more.
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- Jahvid Best ran the fastest 40 among all the running backs at the combine. He also posted the fastest time in the 3-cone drill. He did 18 reps in the bench press, which wasn't fantastic, but certainly didn't hurt his draft stock. Todd McShay says Best's overall performance was impressive and projects him as a fringe first-round pick. Best's only weakness is his aggressive play style which exposes him to injuries.
- Ted Miller ranks Cal's 2010 nonconference schedule (UC Davis, Colorado, at Nevada) at ninth in the Pac-10.
- Faraudo looks at another wild week in the Pac-10.
- After this weekend's sweep, Cal rose to 21st in the RPI rankings.
- Theo Robertson will join Faraudo in a live chat this Thursday at 10:30.
- Despite the capturing the Pac-10 crown, Cal will have a tough time making the NCAA tournament if they lose their next two games.
- Women's bball had their five-game winning streak snapped by ASU. Cal had a 47-40 lead with 6:39 remaining, but was outscored 17-3 through the rest of the game.
- Rugby defeated UC Santa Cruz 88-11.
- Baseball won the Cal State Bakersfield tournament by defeating Central Michigan 9-4, holding off St Mary's with a 5-4 victory, and winning the tournament with a 13-0 shutout against Cal State Bakersfield.
- No. 13/14 softball defeated Cal State Long Beach 8-1.
- No. 4 women's water polo set an NCAA record with an 8OT match against no. 3 UCLA. UCLA won 7-6.
- Women's lacrosse was defeated 17-3 by no. 1 Northwestern.
- Men's track and field took 3rd and women finished 5th out of ten teams at the MPSF Indoor Championships
- Women's swimming and diving finished 2nd at the Pac-10 championships.
- Women's gymnastics finished fourth at the Stanford Meet.
- No. 4 UCLA women's tennis battled back from a 3-1 deficit to defeat no. 3 Cal by a 4-3 margin.
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JAMAL!!!!
Third senior this year to get Pac-10 PoW honors. Hopefully Theo can rock the conference tourney.
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CALIFORNIA: The thing that stands out is their lack of inside play. They’ve never found a consistent scoring presence in the post, so they have to play small. A lot of times, Jamal Boykin is their center, and he’s not a back-to-the-basket player. But they can score; that’s what they do. They spread you out and they have three guards who are as good as any guards out there in terms of being able to shoot. They don’t get to the foul line very much. When Jerome Randle is not playing well and not going off, they are very susceptible. Generally they play man-to-man, but if you can get it inside on them you can score. Patrick Christopher can really shoot it, but he is not a great defender. Randle is really little, so it’s tough for him to handle guys defensively. He’ll jump into passing lanes, but if they don’t get steals they’re getting scored on. They get beat off the dribble more than they should. Their best defenders are Boykin and Omondi Amoke inside, and on the perimeter it’s Jorge Gutierrez, so their best defenders are not any of their three primary players. Offensively, for some reason, they have a lot of trouble with zones, which is why they lost to Oregon State. They’re just hoping against a zone that Randle and Theo Robertson will knock down 25-footers. It’s hard to live and die with that.
I was under the impression that PChris is a pretty good defender, but other than that hard to argue much
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I think relative to his physical gifts, PChris is an average to below average defender – but because he’s such a great athlete, that makes him an average to above average defender relative to the average Pac-10 2-guard. If he had Jorge’s approach to defense, he’d be a disruptive terror in the manner of a smaller Gerald Wallace.
Sounds about right. PC is very mercurial on the defensive end; he’s got a lot of talent, but his instincts always seem to have him a little off from. To his credit though, he’s become really good at crashing the boards.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Mar 1, 2010 10:03 PM PST up reply actions
I think if Monty makes him focus on defense (like he did recently against Pondexter) he can be very good. He doesn’t have quite the focus or legs or whatever to be 100% on both ends of the floor. Frankly, it’s a very tough thing, only a few players can be both full on offensive and defensive threats (pippen, kidd, kobe, jordan, duncan,
He was very good on Saturday. I forgot who he was on, but I don’t think his man shot very well (or had any shots that looked good).
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by Avinash Kunnath on Mar 1, 2010 11:28 PM PST up reply actions
When PC first strutted onto the court at Cal, I noticed he had an odd gate. He didn’t lift his knees up high when he jogged down court. Instead, he kind of shuffled his feet down the court. And he had a very exaggerated shoulder rock side to side, back and forth as he made his way down the court. I wondered what was wrong with his motion. It’s not very efficient at all.
As he’s gone on to play, it seems PC has improved this a bit, but I think it’s still just something to do with his mechanics. I think his lateral movement is limited and this makes him slow defensively, since it’s all about quick sideways steps so the offensive guy doesn’t get past you. This is surely what will, unfortunately, keep PC from the NBA. There’s something in the gift that allows him to explode vertically, limits him from doing the same laterally.
I noticed that Leon Powe also had an odd giddy-up when he first came onto the court as well. It was obvious to anyone who saw him run the floor. Massively gifted from the waist up, below average athletically from the waist down. I never thought Powe would make the pros because of this, and I was gladly proved wrong.
Peon’s limitations might have been due to all the surgery he had on his knees.
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