Cal Women's Basketball vs. Washington Gamethread
by norcalnick on Feb 10, 2011 6:00 PM PST
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After two grueling weeks on the road the Bears finally return to the friendly confines of Haas Pavilion, where they will immediately get the chance to atone for their worst week of basketball of the season. That begins tonight against the Washington Huskies, who gave Cal their second loss in the state of Washington back in mid January. In that game the Bears were outrebounded, turned the ball over 21 times, and shot a woeful 33% field goal percentage. Only the defense of Eliza Pierre and the three point shooting of Mikayla Lyles kept the game remotely close as the Bears were thoroughly outplayed in Seattle.
Since that loss the Huskies have continued the solid play – losing close games on the road in Arizona before beating rival Washington St. and Oregon. But Washington did rather shockingly stumble at home against previously winless-in-the-Pac-10 Oregon St. Just as the Bears will try to rebound from their loss to Washington, Washington will be trying to rebound from that tough loss to the Beavers.
To avoid another damaging loss Cal will need to focus on the glass. Washington has been a pretty good rebounding team this year, having held their own on the glass against Cal, UCLA and Arizona State already. In the earlier matchup Talia Caldwell had one of her worst games of the year – playing just 22 minutes and pulling down just 4 rebounds as she dealt with constant foul trouble. Getting a good game from her would go a long way towards erasing the advantages Washington had in Seattle.
Additionally the Bears will need better games from Lindsay Sherbert and Layshia Clarendon, who both really struggled offensively against the Huskies. Sherbert has shown more consistency lately, and will be playing with the home rims in Berkeley that seem to have been much kinder to her so far this year.
Cal’s defense wasn’t a huge problem the first time against Washington, but they’ll probably look to do a better job against Kristi Kingma and Sara Morton, who both found open looks from deep. Anther player to look out for is Regina Rogers, who has reached double figures in four of her last five games.
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OK, for multiple reasons that we're all familiar with
I really need a win over Washington today.
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17-4 Washington. God, this is depressing.
How ya gonna keep 'em down on the Farm, after they've seen Berkeley?
17-4
I just don’t believe this. What in the world is going on?!?
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21-7! We got more points somehow!
Only the full court press will save us now.
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And how can this be happening to us at home?!?!
How ya gonna keep 'em down on the Farm, after they've seen Berkeley?
I’m beginning to suspect that this team just isn’t very good. Unfortunately I just don’t see enough live basketball to really know for sure.
At the very least, I think we’re a team with very obvious weaknesses that can be exploited by teams with the right set of talent and/or coaching ability.
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Shouldn’t this team be good though, with the recruiting classes we’ve had, and the players left over from last year’s decent team?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 10, 2011 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
Presumably. There are a few possibilities
1) They’re talented, but too inexperienced to play well yet.
2) They’re talented, but through a failure in coaching and/or effort they’re not maximizing their talent
3) They’re not as talented as the recruiting rankings thought they were
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2) and 3) are potentially concerning due to what they imply about Boyle and her ability to judge and develop talent.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 10, 2011 7:44 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, there have been grumblings. I’ve been trying to find info on the first class that Boyle brought in. I was under the impression that Gray-Lawson, Walker and Hampton weren’t considered can’t-miss recruits, which means that coach Boyle deserves lots of credit for coaching them up and building the 2nd best program in the Pac-10 over that time. If that’s the case I’m inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt.
There’s going to be lots of pressure (or at least, as much pressure as there ever is in women’s basketball) to get results next year when the super class are all juniors and everybody comes back healthy (hopefully) + another stud freshman class.
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Three of those top recruits haven’t been able to play a minute this year due to injury and illness.
How ya gonna keep 'em down on the Farm, after they've seen Berkeley?
Ugh, Afure got hot, now it sounds like she's trying to hard and forcing shots.
Bears down 12 at the half, and the worst part is that it easily could have been worse.
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I’m not seeing a team with no talent, I see a team without strong outside shooting that is getting pushed around under the glass.
by paleodan on Feb 10, 2011 7:57 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Oh, and the fucking turnovers. My god.
by paleodan on Feb 10, 2011 7:58 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
0-10 from 3. I’d like to humbly suggest that we stop shooting them.
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The Bears play really horribly from behind. I don’t know if it’s psychological, if we push too hard on offense or what, but I can’t recall this team coming from behind in any game this year.
Conversely, we’ve only lost one lead, and that was on the road on a crazy 3 pointer.
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Depends. Are you numb yet? Are you a masochist? If not, I suggest you go watch a nice comedy on NBC.
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STOP THE MADNESS, KODIAK
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by atomsareenough on Feb 10, 2011 9:22 PM PST up reply actions
I’m done with this game. UW has ruined too many evenings for me lately. Time to watch community and pretend that I never cared about sports.
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And of course they make that fucking shot as time expires. Someone shoot me in the face.
by paleodan on Feb 10, 2011 8:17 PM PST via mobile reply actions
I’m just so confused how the Huskies are the better team… Our bench looks so resigned to a loss…
by paleodan on Feb 10, 2011 8:20 PM PST via mobile reply actions
And now some asshole Cal fan is heckling Coach Boule during the timeout.
by paleodan on Feb 10, 2011 8:22 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Sometimes fans
are real jerks….wow. Glad I wasn’t there or I would have gotten into it with him ( or her?)…sad,just sad.
Go Bears!
Cal needs a point guard, and they need a big
Usually if you have neither of those, your team’s going to be inconsistent.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 10, 2011 8:23 PM PST reply actions
Stallworth and Caldwell were good last year. I think the terrible guard play (shooting) is causing all our problems this year.
by paleodan on Feb 10, 2011 8:30 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
A good point guard makes shooters look better.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Feb 10, 2011 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
Cal shooting free throws with 2:15 left.
How ya gonna keep 'em down on the Farm, after they've seen Berkeley?
Well...
I guess I’m not sorry that I missed the game, being sick at home.
I am writing this season off to youth and depth. I take heart from Maryland. They were a very similar team to ours last season. They’d lost some top players to transfer and had no juniors. They ended up losing in the third round of the WNIT. This season, with four juniors and NO seniors, they’re ranked #11 in the country.
Look, next season, if we remain healthy, we have FIVE new bodies who are all talented. Brandon, Cohen, Gray, Boyd, and Johnson. We return everyone but Mooch and Rama. We should have depth at the post and the guard (and 2 possible real point guards).
This season has been trying, but really, not unexpected. These kids are young…and they are talented. Stallworth is a sophomore, but she just turned 18…. Leaders will emerge. Stay strong Bear fans. It will get better. :-))
Go Bears!
by BBallgrrrl on Feb 10, 2011 9:26 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I agree, as I have in the past,
with BBallgrrrl. I don’t mean to be condescending, but rearing daughters gives one a certain amount of insight. This age group is all over the place: wonderfully mature and poised and wise young women in some respects and at some moments; and irritating, clueless, perverse little girls at others. And all the talent in the world can’t make up for time and experience. I think of the W’s Minnesota Lynx; they took several years to rebuild into a decent team, despite the presence of a great athlete like Seimone Augustus and several other very fine players.
(And it could be that this year’s team just does not possess good chemistry, whatever that means. But I think it’s probably lack of maturity.)
Onward and upward! At the next meeting, the Puppies will be whimpering, begging for mercy…
Even though I’m not angry about this season (there are a lot of reasons why Cal shouldn’t be that good this year) I don’t like losing to Washington. It just reminds me too much of the years I was in school, where Cal was awful, and where watching a women’s basketball game was a futile exercise that would only disappoint. Anyway, ugh.
Yes
I remember those days very well…dark days and another reason to be happy we have Boyle and crew at the helm. It’s crazy making at the moment, but I faith these kids and their talent will gel and next year’s team should be consistently good.
BTW, Reshanda Gray just was named a McD AA. She’s is a beast underneath. With Brandon back and her in the line-up we should be nice and deep at post (barring any injuries of course).
Also, FYI, Lexi should be a the game today (WSU). She just had surgery for a torn meniscus. :-((
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