Comments on: Basketball: USC game thread

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:11:17 +0000

It took the staff a full half to deliver me one beer, even though by half time I certainly coul dhave used a bunch more.

By: covinared

covinared — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:30:35 +0000

you and I must not have had the same amount to drink…

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:05:16 +0000

Covinared – since I was in the front row, I had a great view of the second foul on Jorge – a charging, which wasn’t close – as well as the two missed no-calls when he got hit in the face. In the second half, the ridiculous calls went Cal’s way (as long as they were not shooting fouls for us), and the U$C fans (and Cal fans) couldn’t help but laugh at how bad they were.

By: covinared

covinared — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:22:29 +0000

I don’t know where these complaints about the officiating and arena come from. I was there. Cal got the calls early and failed to put away sc. Sc outplayed us the rest of the way. They were better. Staples and LA were beautiful, even better with LA Live. Its easy for many bay area folks to snub there noses at anything located in LA for any reason.

By: K1W

K1W — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:27:57 +0000

Congrats to the Cal women. They WON TWO and are in the Pac-10 tourney semi’s, playing UCLA.

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:00:47 +0000

JF: That’s a great catch on the quote by O’Neill – “why didn’t we recruit this guy”.
Ha ha ha ha…..

It’s not time for the weight room yet, boys. NIT glory can still be ours!!!

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:58:14 +0000

Rollon: I’d venture to guess that Cal got off so few 3′s b/c USC was committed to not allowing us any. Did you notice how far out their D was extended? Hard to bust a 3 when you’ve got a dude in your mug. Give them some credit today.

If any team is going to extend their defense, you’ve got to be able to beat them inside, but, as mentioned elsewhere, Kamp was blocked multiple times by Vucevich, and seemed to no longer be any option. Where was MSF today? Was the ball entered to him in the post even once? Good defense by Kevin O’Neil.

And I’d suggest that Monty didn’t call some timeouts b/c he knew the game was over at some point and just settled into his seat. I noticed he didn’t even flinch on a number of plays, especially the Solo play I just described. When a sorry play like that happens and you don’t move, you know you’ve given up.

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:53:51 +0000

Solomon’s lowlight of the season came when he got a rebound down low and had Stephenson on him like a “no fouls” statue. Instead of overpowering him (Solo is taller with more vertical jumps) he tried a turnaround, double pump from the waist shot, and basically served it up to Stephenson’s stationary hands for the block. He knew it was pathetic when he started back to the other end of the court with his head hung low. We’ve seen that a lot this year, but this was the lowlight! Thing is, MSF will be gone next year and that’s his position to show off, or shown down, as much as he wants.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:26:06 +0000

I was at the game, first row in front of the Cal band.

U$C’s guards are much, much better than ours.

Other than the first few minutes, we looked totally lethargic. When Kamp got blocked 3 straight times, he basically gave up.

Refs were absolutely terrible. The game changed on their calls/no calls when we were up by 8 (leading to us being down by 7). In the second half, the calls actually favored us, but they were so laughably bad.

By: milo

milo — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:11:44 +0000

Bummer…oh well, still a season that exceeded expectations.