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(M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:39 am
by arizonawildcats
Friday, Dec. 29, 2023
8:30 p.m. MST
Haas Pavilion (Berkeley, Calif.)
TV: Pac-12 Network
Radio: AM1290
ArizonaStats.com
Game Notes

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 1:12 pm
by CalStateTempe
I’ll be in the house, for this farewell to haas game.

With my two oldest daughters, and my middle daughter’s friend whose dad is an alum as well! We’re rolling 5 strong to Berkeley tomorrow from Sac.

It’s great to have a cats dad friend from the kids school. We text a ton during our games, our wives know to leave us alone. It’s like step brothers the movie! He flies house flags too!!

Seriously, it’s so cool to have a solid cats fan just down the street.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:17 pm
by Fishclamps
I'll be streaming it

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:35 pm
by Merkin
Thanks Fish.

Lots of UA alum in the Bay Area, at least in the technical fields

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:39 pm
by arizonawildcats

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:27 pm
by dmjcat
Not to be a negative Nancy, but I think its very unlikely that the UA runs the table in the PAC12's last season.

Points always become harder to come by once conference starts because everyone knows your tendencies.

Lets not forget that we lost by 15 at Utah last year, by 19 at Oregon, by 13 at WSU, by 9 at UCLA, and by 9 at Stanford. We are very beatable.

The challenge for the UA, in a conference that is not particulary good this year, is to ignore who the opponent is and just try to improve every game. If we don't and end up playing down to the level of the opposition, we'll end up with less than a 1 seed 11 weeks from now.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:31 pm
by 84Cat
Interesting, Mark Madsen is the Cal coach. I hated him when he played at Stanford

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:34 pm
by Beachcat97
dmjcat wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:27 pm Not to be a negative Nancy, but I think its very unlikely that the UA runs the table in the PAc12's last season.

Points always become harder to come by once conference starts because everyone knows your tendencies.

Lets not forget that we lost by 15 at Utah last year, by 19 at Oregon, by 13 at WSU, by 9 at UCLA, and by 9 at Stanford. We are very beatable.

The challenge for the UA, in a conference that is not particulary good this year, is to ignore who the opponent is and just try to improve every game. If we don't and end up playing down to the level of the opposition, we'll end up with less than a 1 seed 11 weeks from now.
I think there's also a much larger "We are every team's Super Bowl" effect this year than in recent previous seasons. The Pac is probably getting 3 teams into the tourney, maybe 4. That leaves a lot of teams just playing for pride, and their game vs. Arizona is their only remaining one versus a highly ranked team. We're going to get everyone's best shot. Happens every year.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:39 pm
by 84Cat
Feed Big O & KJ. They have no bigs

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:40 pm
by arizonawildcats
That was the worst play in the history of Pac-12 basketball

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:40 pm
by Fishclamps
holy shit what a fucking DUNK

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:40 pm
by 84Cat
Wtf with these silly to's

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:41 pm
by Alieberman
Boswell sloppy passing so far

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:41 pm
by dmjcat
84Cat wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:40 pm Wtf with these silly to's
Sloppy ball handling......we need to clean it up

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:42 pm
by AZCatGirl
Maybe Ballo should try shooting free throws like that. lol

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:44 pm
by Fishclamps
ouch, 2 on their best player

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:45 pm
by Merkin
Larsson with 3 assists already

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:49 pm
by 84Cat
Love from Oakland for 3

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:49 pm
by AZCatGirl
Love going off!

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:49 pm
by 84Cat
Love raining 3s

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:49 pm
by Alieberman
We could have our walk-ons playing the entire 2nd half

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:54 pm
by Beachcat97
It's crazy how quickly we can get up double digits while still making mistakes.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:54 pm
by 84Cat
Alieberman wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:49 pm We could have our walk-ons playing the entire 2nd half
It would be good for our depth to get Filip, Veesaar and Krivas some extended minutes

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:56 pm
by Merkin
Filip already in

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:57 pm
by dovecanyoncat
We pretty good kinda sorta

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:58 pm
by Lute4God
Let's see Bradley and the rest of the bench keep up the intensity on D

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:59 pm
by AZCatGirl
So Don didn't think we could win at Duke. Shocking.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:59 pm
by Alieberman
Krivas putting in some work

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:00 pm
by 84Cat
Image

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:00 pm
by AZCatGirl
Nice to see Bam Bam hit a 3. Maybe that will get him going.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:01 pm
by Fishclamps
My man Fili B!!!

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:02 pm
by arizonawildcats
Throw it down big man

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:04 pm
by dovecanyoncat
Maybe Vegas knew we would wear out our bench this game, hence the spread.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:07 pm
by Fishclamps
Boswell having himself a sophomore slump

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:08 pm
by Lute4God
Imagine if FiliB gets comfortable on D and we could have that kind of PnR with Krivas off the Bench 🤩🏀🤩

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:14 pm
by dovecanyoncat
How long was the Zags' home court streak before losing to SDSU?

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:16 pm
by Alieberman
Is McLean drunk?

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:18 pm
by AZCatGirl
Nice Pelle!

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:19 pm
by dovecanyoncat
Fity!

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:19 pm
by LuteIsGod
dmjcat wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:27 pm Not to be a negative Nancy, but I think its very unlikely that the UA runs the table in the PAC12's last season.

Points always become harder to come by once conference starts because everyone knows your tendencies.

Lets not forget that we lost by 15 at Utah last year, by 19 at Oregon, by 13 at WSU, by 9 at UCLA, and by 9 at Stanford. We are very beatable.

The challenge for the UA, in a conference that is not particulary good this year, is to ignore who the opponent is and just try to improve every game. If we don't and end up playing down to the level of the opposition, we'll end up with less than a 1 seed 11 weeks from now.
That’s why we (and good teams in general) should have a guard that can draw fouls and a good way to draw fouls is to be comfortable hitting 10 footers, teardrops and going at your defenders chest.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:24 pm
by dmjcat
We did not play down to the level of competition, thus far, in the 1st half.

We did have some sloppy ball handling/passing that we still need to work on. A couple of sloppy cross court passes were the difference between winning and losing against FAU in Vegas last week.

It will be good to get the bench some game time in the 2nd half.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:24 pm
by Chicat
That was about the best half of basketball I’ve seen us play since we kept Wazzu from scoring double digits in the first half a bunch of years ago.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:25 pm
by Merkin
Krivas with 10 points and FilipB with 4

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:26 pm
by dmjcat
Chicat wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:24 pm That was about the best half of basketball I’ve seen us play since we kept Wazzu from scoring double digits in the first half a bunch of years ago.
I'm not sure if its a case of us playing well, or we are just playing a lousy team. (Maybe both)

California has a NET ranking of #221

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:26 pm
by Alieberman
I can't believe this Cal team found 4 teams to beat in the non-conference.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:28 pm
by Chicat
LOL at this PAC-12 Network fluff piece on a team that’s currently down eleventy million points.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:30 pm
by EastCoastCat
We are good. Cal is bad.

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:35 pm
by AZCatGirl
Alieberman wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:26 pm I can't believe this Cal team found 4 teams to beat in the non-conference.
According to Don they proved what a great offensive team they are in the non-confrence! :lol:

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:35 pm
by Fishclamps
On another positive note, ASU looks like absolute shit!

Re: (M) Game #12 Arizona at California (2023-2024)

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:35 pm
by dovecanyoncat
dovecanyoncat wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:14 pm How long was the Zags' home court streak before losing to SDSU?
It was last year they were 75 in a row. This is the first home loss of the season.