Arkansas and Illinois

[Caveman Catfan]

You COULD care less? Then you care.

You COULDN’T care less? Then you care just the right amount?

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

I feel the same way. Recruiting elite Freshmen is a slippery slope. It seems difficult to have portal veterans and elite Freshmen who play the same position. Seems more like an either/or to me …

You can if the only promise given is that they'll be in a fair competition for playing time with the other guy. No player worth having is going to be scared of competition

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

Plus , their mothers are probably unathletic hot divas . So the genes were severely weakened.

LOL. Yeah, not too many NBA players chasing the big, burly, athletic women

 

[Wonky]

Cal’s post game was meaningless.

We did not play winning basketball. We’ll be fine.

We did not create enough threes because we did not find people. And, yet, our game plan was to take it to the rim. But, what did we do to start the game? Take threes. You won’t believe him, but that as their game plan going into the game. Take it to the rim,
like they did in the second half.

Remember, this is the guy who said before the season started that he didn’t want Z out there shooting 3’s. Now look at their stats through 6 games. Z is far and away their best perimeter shooter. If it wasn’t for him they would be shooting like 28% as a team. And yet Cal hates it every time he shoots one. He’s a freaking dinosaur. Imagine what Z would be in a real offense. Poor kid got sold a bill of goods by the master. I don’t feel sorry for him though… he should have opened his eyes.

 

[Caveman Catfan]

Remember, this is the guy who said before the season started that he didn’t want Z out there shooting 3’s. Now look at their stats through 6 games. Z is far and away their best perimeter shooter. If it wasn’t for him they would be shooting like 28% as a team. And yet Cal hates it every time he shoots one. He’s a freaking dinosaur. Imagine what Z would be in a real offense. Poor kid got sold a bill of goods by the master. I don’t feel sorry for him though… he should have opened his eyes.

He would have thrived here. Z can be an excellent passer and can make you pay from the perimeter. Sorry his people did not know enough to advise him that Pope would make him a star. I think Garrison has a 4:1 ratio for assists vs TOs. If BG can become that kind of creator, Z would have been exceptional.

 

[chroix]

Cal is gonna have them so cooked they will turn into bacon.

Pork rinds!

 

[Ron Mehico]

He would have thrived here. Z can be an excellent passer and can make you pay from the perimeter. Sorry his people did not know enough to advise him that Pope would make him a star. I think Garrison has a 4:1 ratio for assists vs TOs. If BG can become that kind of creator, Z would have been exceptional.

People kept talking about Z’s shooting in that Georgia game and how everyone was excited about that, and yes that was of course great. But just as exciting to me were the two exceptional passes he had, both no look and one of them behind the back while driving the lane to an open 3 point shooter. It showed exceptional playmaking ability and awareness. He’s being completely wasted in Cals archaic offense.

 

[Caveman Catfan]

People kept talking about Z’s shooting in that Georgia game and how everyone was excited about that, and yes that was of course great. But just as exciting to me were the two exceptional passes he had, both no look and one of them behind the back while driving the lane to an open 3 point shooter. It showed exceptional playmaking ability and awareness. He’s being completely wasted in Cals archaic offense.

He has really good court vision. With discipline and opportunity, I think he could be an exceptional playmaker from the post.

 

[Wonky]

People kept talking about Z’s shooting in that Georgia game and how everyone was excited about that, and yes that was of course great. But just as exciting to me were the two exceptional passes he had, both no look and one of them behind the back while driving the lane to an open 3 point shooter. It showed exceptional playmaking ability and awareness. He’s being completely wasted in Cals archaic offense.

You had former UNC All-Americans John Henson and Tyler Hansbrough literally referring to Z as a “cheat code” after that Georgia game. The whole college basketball world was pissing their pants seeing that we had a secret weapon. Then Cal proceeded to Cal.

 

[yoshukai]

You had former UNC All-Americans John Henson and Tyler Hansbrough literally referring to Z as a “cheat code” after that Georgia game. The whole college basketball world was pissing their pants seeing that we had a secret weapon. Then Cal proceeded to Cal.

People kept talking about Z’s shooting in that Georgia game and how everyone was excited about that, and yes that was of course great. But just as exciting to me were the two exceptional passes he had, both no look and one of them behind the back while driving the lane to an open 3 point shooter. It showed exceptional playmaking ability and awareness. He’s being completely wasted in Cals archaic offense.

I’m curious what happens to big Z when/if the center from Tennessee gets healthy. He’s the kind of center Cal loves but those Therio drives to the basketball will be less frequent with Aidoo clogging up the middle.

 

[Fox2monk]

Watching this game was like the perfect illustration of why having great 3-pt shooters is so important.

Covered up a myriad of sins and was just a gut shot toward the end of the game when Arkansas was trying to counter with difficult 2-pointers.

The Cal special, let’s force hard 2’s while you drill 3’s in our eye. The comeback will happen!