Arkansas and Illinois
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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
LOL. Yeah, not too many NBA players chasing the big, burly, athletic women
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Cal special, let’s force hard 2’s while you drill 3’s in our eye. The comeback will happen!
If you happened to listen to Cal's postgame, you don't have to wonder. Cal addressed it.
And guess what? He can't wait to get Aidoo back so that he can play with two big men in the paint. Said so in his presser.
Claimed that is what is holding his offense back. Cal needs to bigs clogging the middle to run his GOOOOO offense and control the shot clock.
Cal is CMS with a basketball when it comes to offense. The game has left him.
The Hoosier Daddies need Tom back.
Cal will play Z high and Aidoo low and wait until Cal mentions playing Brazle along with both bigs because Z is such a good shooter.
I mean, this could be completely made up, but I doubt it. Cal went to Arkansas, lost the best assistant he had, added Brad, and kept the rest of the dead weight. Basically didn't change anything minus losing an offensive guru. Running a dribble drive in 2024 is borderline retarded.
Z made his bed Coach Pope tried to get him to stay and he rejected us I would rather have his brother
Yep. He doesn’t have the equity built up there. They won’t deal with it long
I'm pretty sure we have. If the kid goes back into the portal, he will be recruited by Pope.
I'm sure Arkansas fans are just happy the kids will be living their dream and having generational wealth. That's all that counts. They shouldn't even keep score. Hell, don't even bother having a season. Cal should just hold open gym and do combine workouts for scouts.
Yeah I understand you saying this but when it comes down to it Big Z just does some goofy stuff on the court like he tries to make things look more difficult than they should be. Whether that be grabbing a loose ball or trying to tip a ball back in above the rim he will try to make it look like an amazing play and it hurts his performance. I think Carr is a better basketball player because he takes his craft more seriously and has a desire to do the simple things right. I'm not sure big Z does.
Even faster than we anticipated, at this rate they will have full blown 9-16 season soon. They have full blown Cal AIDS.
Id bet a lot of money on it. Either way, have a good day sir.
Pope tried to get Z to stay? I hadn't heard that.
It seemed to me like Pope wanted to move everyone out that had anything to do with the old regime. He didn't retain a single coach, or player and even took down the NBA posters in the locker room.
Heck, Orlando Antiqua tried to stay, but Pope said no.
If Pope tried to get Z, I'm very surprised he didn't stay.
He had a meeting with former players when he first got here mainly z and theiro both chose to follow their whipping boy to Arkansas
I didn't know about the meemting, or maybe just don't remember it, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was Pope's decision.
Pope has made it very obvious that he only wants guys here that are about the program first. Those kids that followed Cal, most likely did so because he is the nba pied piper.
The best part of it is, Pope's system will help more kids than Cal's, yet Cal is the one that claims to be 'players first'. It's more like 'escorting already NBA bound kids to the green room and taking credit for it first'
I don't think we can really evaluate Z fairly when he has a coach like Cal. Listen to Cal talk. I don't understand half of what he's saying while speaking to the press. Now imagine him trying to teach you basketball.
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