********OFFICIAL GAME THREAD********

[wildcatwelder_rivals]

My God we're terrible.

We've made fun of those on here who said last year Cal needs to recruit shooters, but by damn I have to agree with that assessment thus far. It's great to have elite athletes, but if you can't throw it in the ocean it matters not how athletic you are. This will be, I fear, a big issue all season long.

The defense will improve, no question, but until we figure out how to actually beat a zone and make shots this will be a season that will fall short of what many may have expected.

Yeah, I'm pissed and probably should wait until tomorrow to post, but this is beyond embarrassing.

 

[Seckatz]

Complete joke.

 

[JoeBeeHall]

Utah V is collapsing on everything the mid range shot is open no one can hit it or willing to take it

 

[LineSkiCat14]

In fairness.. Nerves.. Hard to miss this many shots at home.. You'd have to try to get those numbers.

 

[wkycatfan7]

Diallo is the new Briscoe, without defense.

Diallo = Roderick Rhodes.

 

[Elijah55]

Back to football.

Lol until tomorrow jk

 

[CatsRWild]

7-34. Knox, Quade and Gabriel combined 0-14.

Too many runners/leaners, some missed 2 footers and open jumpers. Just get your feet set and make a shot somebody.

Teams will pack it in and dare us to shoot and hold us to 1 shot with stat lines like this.

 

[WCSPlayedWRInHS]

Gotta love our fans. Before season “we have no experience, we will take a ton of early lumps!”

*team struggles during first half of first game against an experienced team*

“There’s no excuse for this!!!! No tournament for us!! We stink, not a single player from this team will ever be drafted!!”

Get a grip guys. Yeah this sucks, but I’d bet we don’t lose this game.

 

[Lukasz0brzut]

I knew we would struggle... we have too many guys that have similar strengths.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

What happened to penetration? I hate this weave that only results in long jumpers.

 

[mdlUK.1]

Missed our final 15 shots of the half. Not going to beat anyone shooting like that.

 

[kyjeff1]

Your a moron

Shouldn't you spell the word "you're" correctly if YOU'RE going to call someone a moron?

 

[Elijah55]

Diallo = Roderick Rhodes.

Il take Roderick Rhodes any day of week.

 

[bigc45157]

That was honestly the most pathetic half of basketball I’ve witnessed since the Gillespie years.

All roster management imo. We let this happen by signing guys and pushing them out, over and over. When you don’t get a Bamba or Bagley, you have this mess.

I feel bad for our players because they’re gonna get a crap taken on them by fans when it’s not their fault.

Good thing we got Barrett...

 

[TheDude73]

Has Any team under Cal shot 21% or less in a half? Wow.

 

[Drcatfan]

At this point, I would be happy with a 1 point win. Just survive then improve.

 

[clew84]

This looks to me like a ship without a captain. No leader.

Btw, wtf cant I log in to Rupps on my iPhone??

 

[ukfan041]

Missed most of the first half, but it doesn’t look like I’ve missed much.

 

[BigBubDaBiz]

BIG TROUBLE, little china

 

[Sturge]

*team struggles during first half of first game against an experienced team*

“There’s no excuse for this!!!! No tournament for us!! We stink, not a single player from this team will ever be drafted!!”

Get a grip guys..

It's Utah Valley State...forgive me if I expected not to be down 9 at half.

 

[The_Answer1313_rivals]

It's just ONE half of ONE game.

We'll be ok. I promise lol

 

[LadyCaytIL]

[laughing] If we lose tonight.... It will be a worse loss than any Billy G had here....

 

[anon_q409idbs5m40a]

Diallo = Roderick Rhodes.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[Aike]

Shouldn't you spell the word "you're" correctly if YOU'RE going to call someone a moron?

I take it as a compliment coming from him.

 

[KYCAT78]

Cal likes position less basketball players and he has a whole team that cannot play a position.

 

[MarkPftw]

Gardner Webb all over again.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Damn I miss these guys:

 

[buckkiller]

This is more disappointing then anything. We don't have the Low Post Losing out on Bamba and Vandrbikt being hurt doesn't help. Not impressed by Green, Gab, SKJ, Diallo at all. Alexander is Sloppy running offense and critical situations why isn't the ball in Greens hands tgere? You have a team of all freshman you got to Land 2 of the top 5 players in nation. Zion and another Top player will be a must for next year!

 

[Jakarii]

It will be even tomorrow since Duke is also playing tonight

Would Utah Valley look as good tonight if they had played a game last night?

 

[WCSPlayedWRInHS]

It's Utah Valley State...forgive me if I expected not to be down 9 at half.

ok? It’s still not the end of the world or our season or hell even the end of this game.

 

[thebluestripes]

I got nothing......smh

 

[anon_q409idbs5m40a]

Diallo = Roderick Rhodes.

And this guy was seriously thinking about entering the draft? He's a worse shooter than Andre Riddick.

 

[warrior-cat]

I know people have been as always, looking at star ratings but, a team has to play together. This team has not played together very long and as Cal said many times so far, this team will takes some lumps early. We could easily lose this game.

 

[TheBigBlueSpectacle]

Yeah a loss here goes down as the worst. But we have a half to play

 

[LadyCaytIL]

Gardner Webb all over again.

Much worse... we have 40 x more talent than we did in 2007

 

[Nkycatfan17]

Crazy how a bunch of grown men go to the internet and have panic attack when a group of freshman have a bad half in their very first official college game

 

[GoNoles111]

Give the ball to Green and let him create. Keep it simple. He's not touching it near enough.

 

[buckkiller]

I knew we would struggle but getting our collective asses kicked nah!! SMH!

 

[TortElvisII]

Is there anyone with any fire on this team?

Zombies.

 

[kyjeff1]

Hopefully it doesn't happen, but I'm trying to predict just how bad a loss to Utah Valley State will be.
I mean, aTm is putting a whooping on west Virginia on a neutral court and we could potentially lose to Utah Valley State at home. Ouch.