Cal's rosters have potential, they don't have talent.

[ukcatz12]

Before anyone takes this as a defense of Cal, it's not. His roster construction strategy is outdated and doesn't work. He's the guy who is ultimately responsible for putting the team together.

Everyone has been saying all year how talented this team is, but is it actually? Is it real college basketball talent? No. It's a team full of prospects who may be good in two or three years. But it's not full of guys that are good now. EvanMiya puts together great statistics on player efficiency and how good individual players are. This team only had two in the top 100. Just two. Rob and Reed. Reed is 6 and Rob is 36. Edwards is 143, Reeves is 160, Bradshaw is 193, Mitchell is 280, Thiero is 746, Wagner is 966 (!). Nobody else in the team is in the top 1000.

How does that stack up against other teams this year?

• UConn has six in the top 35
• Houston has five in the top 60
• Auburn has six in the top 100
• Marquette has four in the top 100
• Purdue has four in the top 100
• UNC has four in the top 100
• Arizona has four in the top 100
• Duke has four in the top 100
• Iowa St. has three in the top 100
• Tennessee has four in the top 100

Our team had prospects, it didn't have college basketball players. The freshmen strategy is outdated and doesn't work anymore, and there are objective statistics showing it to be true.

We obviously should have beaten Oakland. Zero excuse for this to happen twice in three years. But this team probably wasn't going far even in the best case scenario.

 

[jeffky]

They don't have a coach either