Cal Beats UCLA, Sweeps LA For First Time Since The Age Of Newell
by norcalnick on Feb 11, 2012 3:11 PM PST
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PrintWell, that was certainly a hell of a game, wasn't it? One of the ursines today was particularly good, and he wasn't wearing a diluted baby blue, amirite? Cal's performance certainly revealed some interesting strengths that could be important over the rest of the season. Brandon Smith seems to be regaining his swagger. And give props to Thurman, Bak, and Behrens for being able to hold the rope when Kravish/Kamp had foul trouble in the first half. The result of today's game will surely have big time positive ramifications on Cal's conference championship and NCAA chances. But exactly how big an impact is yet to be seen!
This is your place to talk about all of the joyous events from today's game. Congrats to Jorge for engineering the first sweep of the LA schools since 1958. Justin Cobbs had a nice showing in front of his family. And let's hear it for Harper Kamp: the latest member of Cal's 1000 pt, 500 rebound club! We'll be back with a longer recap tomorrow morning. Go Bears!
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Favorite scene of the game
Josh Smith going down like a pole-axed steer clutching his head after getting boxed out by David Kravish.
Dude. You outweigh him by 250+ lbs. You truly are a dickless bear.
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Not only did we get a win
We get out of LA without Josh Smith eating Kravish. Win win.
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Smitty’s still not where he was, but he’s not a liability, which is the first step.
Someone needs to make a rule for Justin…on a clear 2 on 1 break, you MUST give it up above the foul line. Letting one play two, like he did at SDSU and again just now. Ugh.
Anyway, two bad stretches, to open the game and toward the end, but otherwise razor sharp execution was the story. We just play better basketball than they do.
Critical win, but let’s face it, they’re all going to be. Next step, hold home court. Go Bears.
I think you’re mixing up smith and cobbs. Justin made an ill-advised keep instead of pass on a 2-on-1 break and ended up called for a charge when it would have been an easy layup if he passed it.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 4:22 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
I think you two are agreeing.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Oh, he said “rule for Justin”. My bad :)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 4:27 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Justin Smith, however, is a beast and cannot be blocked.
by Reef on Feb 11, 2012 4:31 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Two paragraphs, two different ideas.
by Reef on Feb 11, 2012 4:27 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I’m on mobile! I blame the small screen
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 4:29 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
does anyone have an oregon game link
by WallStreet GoldenBear on Feb 11, 2012 3:20 PM PST reply actions
First time in 53 years
graphic on the screen near end of game – Cal hasn’t swept the LA schools 4-0 since Pete Newell 1958-1959. Cal won the NCAA tournament that year.
I want to win the Pac-12 regular season AND tournament championships
I’m feeling greedy.
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Loving the BN reax
If the Bruins were walking a tightrope before, following the 73-63 drubbing Cal gave Ben Howland’s listless, confused, hapless team, that rope has snapped. Against a marginally talented but well coached Bears squad, the Bruins put on a performance eerily reminiscent of the first game up in Berkeley: A somewhat close game blown wide open right after halftime.
So marginally talented we’re tied for first in the conference!
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
by AERose on Feb 11, 2012 3:37 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
Honestly, they DO have more “talent” than we do, we just play better as a team. Big difference.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Sure, maybe
but does that make us “marginally talented”? It just comes off as sour grapes on the part of the writer.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Or possibly it’s part of their fuzzy baby bear method of trying to make Bacardi Ben and Chianti Dan look as bad as possible. Wholesale Regime Change!
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I see Ben Howland as more of a Zima drinker
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We are better than “marginally talented,” but I see BN’s point.
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Comes off as sour grapes,
because it is sour grapes.
Astonishing how UCLA reportedly has better athletes than everyone else, and any failure must be mis-management. Mounting evidence would suggest otherwise.
Meanwhile, congratulations Golden Bears! Sweeping LA is really something to be proud of.
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not so sure
ucla has higher rated recruits, but I’m not sure they are more talented
as an example, Lamb was more highly rated than Crabbe, but Crabbe is certainly more talented
Andersen was more highly rated than Cobbs, but Cobbs is certainly more talented than Andersen
Jorge is everyone’s conference POY so that speaks for itself
Height is not the same thing as "talent"
Cal vastly outclasses UCLA in athleticism. It would be even more of a blowout if Solomon was able to play.
"We don't want our people to be preoccupied with seminude, crazy men jumping up and down who are chasing an inflated object," said Sheik Mohamed Osman Arus, head of operations for the Hizbul Islam insurgent group.
I wonder what tightrope he thought they were on.
by Reef on Feb 11, 2012 3:45 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Suspended above the yawning abyss of terrible?
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
The dancer at the Superbowl halftime show was from UCLA
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(edit: actually alone in first pending the UDub/OSU game!)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Monty is apparently the best coach in the history of the universe!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 4:28 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
50 Years Ago
The media in LA used to say the same about the Bears when Newell was coaching and beating Wooden and UCLA. We were marginally talented, but we had a superior coach who knew how to coach and get a best out his players.
Great Game
For the start of the second half until about 8 minutes to go, we looked like a legit sweet 16 team. If we could just play like that all the time, crisp passes, multiple looks, shooting well great rebounding, good hustle. Damn, felt good.
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Loved (almost) every minute of the game
I said before the series that we MUST sweep LA if we were going to have any legit chance to win the P12 outright. Of course we can not let up in any game. I think we can only afford to lose 1 more game, and right now the toughest remaining game looks like Colorado at Colorado.
Even if we only lose one more game, it might only be good enough for a share of the P12 Championship.
We still have a razor thin margin for error. AZ loss was a disaster (with WSU loss not far behind).
However the entire season is not just about winning the championship and going to the NCAA. I love every game, and there were few bigger than this one in terms of team accomplishments. Four game sweep of LA schools is a HUGE achievement. What ever this team does the remaining of the year, they can be proud of that.
Arizona is a good team and they played a great game, plus we got jobbed by the refs. The inexplicable Wazzu loss if clearly worse, IMO.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 4:33 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
*is clearly worse
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 4:34 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Exactly. Arizona loss was not a “disaster” for the reason you state. The Wazzu loss is the one that gets me. Which is why I was so uncharacteristically bitter after the game, even getting called out by ’81 for my doomishness…
WSU was undoubtedly the worse performance, but if you had to pick one to reverse, it has to be Zona for resume, conference race, confidence.
Why choose just one? Lets reverse both!
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Favorite part
I just loved how with a minute left in the game, the station I was watching it on switched to a women’s basketball game! It makes me wish they would show more curling, and televise flag football! Oh, and watching the world hacky-sack championships would be amazing!
just got home from the game
Thanks to the awesome alum who gave my girl and I free tickets! Must have been my obnoxious bear hat…
Thought we played a very clean and organized game. How refreshing it is to see a well coached team after those Braun years. Cobbs is mvp although jorge/harper/crabbe were all big.
So kind of the ucla band to play our fight song after our win. I thought that was classy.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Feb 11, 2012 4:39 PM PST via iPhone app reply actions
I was there
It was a good showing by LA Cal alums. A coke zero cost me $5.
by ondal on Feb 11, 2012 4:41 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
So kind of the ucla band to play our fight song after our win.
And all throughout the rest of the game since it seemed to be all they were playing!
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
by AERose on Feb 11, 2012 4:45 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Just got home too.
Totally trolled the fucla crowd.
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great showing by the Cal crowd. Far more Cal fans there than any visiting squad has brought into Haas.
I AM SO ANNOYED that I kept tweeting out about how cool it was the uclaband was playing Big C but unfortunately was using their old tweet handle @uclaband instead of their new one @uclabruinband They even screw that up.
I am still frustrated with Cobbs drawing that charge on the 2-1 where he had Kamp right on the dump off!
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I made one comment about it.
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I’m now more upset about you keep telling em to get over it than the original frustration. I think you won
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by TwistNHook on Feb 11, 2012 9:38 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
that yam would’ve been tasty though.
by j.lee on Feb 11, 2012 7:36 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
There some atrocious calls that went against us, but we also benefited from some bad calls the other way. I really feel as a conference, we can’t be elite until we get better and more consistent reffing.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
I wasnt upset with the call. I was upset that Cobbs didnt dump it off
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harper was pretty close; close enough on tv that wear could have guarded both.
by j.lee on Feb 11, 2012 9:01 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
If he gives it up early he spaces it such that you can’t guard both and you get a layup. As played, they basically got to guard two with one. Monty said as much in the post game.
Exact same problem cost us the SDSU game. There he penetrated too deep then tried to pass at the last moment (and it was the wrong pass…high instead of bounce) when the spacing was already f’d up.
It’s fixable. Otherwise he had a great game.
i actually didn’t think the officiating was all that awful, for Pac12 standards…
The one call we were all shaking our head at was in the second half, ucla got a steal or a rebound and the UCLA player was bringing the ball up and just simply tripped over his own feet.. it didnt look like a cal player was even close to him. What did people see on TV?
That he tripped over his own feet.
Not that bad be Pac-12 standards? That sir, is the problem.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
So he did trip over his own feet?
Watching I specifically remember the player tripping and AFTER he hit the ground, the ref looked back and called the foul…. But we were sitting sort of up high.
And yes, I know that’s the problem ;-) To me a ref makes a call like that (if in fact that’s what happened) he should get suspended for a game because he clearly just made it up.
They started making bad calls right with the tip-off.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 10:04 PM PST up reply actions
From my angle, it looked like cobbs was trying to smash on that flopping goon from 8 feet away. I fully support those kind of efforts. Maybe harper should have slowed down so he could ramp off his back?
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Feb 11, 2012 8:54 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
he was definitely going for power dunk.
by j.lee on Feb 11, 2012 9:03 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Maybe you’re just 24 hours early :)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 11, 2012 10:08 PM PST up reply actions
Question:
The sound on the stream was off for me; did anyone catch an explanation of what that poem Rebecca Harlow displayed on screen was? Also, why was Harper’s name on it?
We could have asked her…
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What I don’t understand is why is she wearing red for this game. Just to annoyed fans from both schools (or does she have a secret U$C/Furd agenda that she is pushing)?
by LEastCoastBears on Feb 12, 2012 1:26 AM PST up reply actions
Something about the poem having been distributed to the team members for motivation.
I think Harper might have circled part of the poem for her to highlight.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
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