Cal Basketball Postgame Thread: Golden Bears Outwork Sun Devils
Not a pretty game by any means; Cal's offensive production looked like it was around a point per possession, shooting only 38% from the field. But they were 41% from downtown and rocked the glass, and other than the big three of Trent Lockett, Ty Abbott and Rihards Kuksiks, held Arizona State's offense down with their man/matchup zone defense.
- Jorge Gutierrez came up big in Tempe again. 21 points on 11 shots, 7 free throws, three steals. He also had some nice Paul Pierce-like pumpfakes to draw fouls and get to the line.
- Markhuri Sanders-Frison and Harper Kamp did their work inside, pounding the offensive glass. 11 offensive rebounds from our bigs, 18 in all from the entire team--Cal outrebounded ASU 43-27.
- Allen Crabbe is now on third 17 point game in four times, nailing four threes.
- Cal needs to work on holding onto the ball after rebounds. Lots of balls bouncing off the hands of our guys after they seem to have picked it up. We dominated the boards, but it seemed like there were a lot of empty possessions.
Nice to get on the board in the Pac-10. Time for the boys to come home and show us what the new-look Bears can do in Haas Pavilion.
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Awesome road win. Go Bears!
Old Toothwrangler
by Kodiak on Jan 8, 2011 2:02 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Great win
That was exciting!!! And a great win for the the young Bears. I like the team better without Frankling and his ill advised shots..
Keep up the good work.
Isn’t ASU in Tempe, and UofA is in Tucson?
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
Yes it is
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jan 8, 2011 3:12 PM PST up reply actions
:)
California Golden Bears: 2nd place is nothing to sneeze at!
by atomsareenough on Jan 8, 2011 3:37 PM PST up reply actions
Will there be video posted this time too?
Whoever has posted video is a Cal hero. I would love to see this game as I had to work today and so video links would be greatly appreciated.
Great win Bears, and yet…one….more….time we see that great coaching wins tight games.
Avinash, I love your enthusiasm about Crabbe, but...
He scored only 7 points 3 games ago, against Stanford.
He has scored 17 in 3 of the last 4, two in the desert and the other against Hartford.
It is nice to see Franklin’s intemperate and usualy unsuccessful hoists being replaced by more shots for Crabbe (and pretty much everyone else).
And Crabbe is just starting to cruise…

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