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

[arizonawildcats]

Friday, Dec. 29, 2023
8:30 p.m. MST
Haas Pavilion (Berkeley, Calif.)
TV: Pac-12 Network
Radio: AM1290
ArizonaStats.com
Game Notes

[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.

[Fishclamps]

I'll be streaming it

[Merkin]

Thanks Fish.

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

[arizonawildcats]

[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.

[84Cat]

Interesting, Mark Madsen is the Cal coach. I hated him when he played at Stanford

[Beachcat97]

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.

[84Cat]

Feed Big O & KJ. They have no bigs

[arizonawildcats]

That was the worst play in the history of Pac-12 basketball

[Fishclamps]

holy shit what a fucking DUNK

[84Cat]

Wtf with these silly to's

[Alieberman]

Boswell sloppy passing so far

[dmjcat]

Wtf with these silly to's

Sloppy ball handling......we need to clean it up

[AZCatGirl]

Maybe Ballo should try shooting free throws like that. lol

[Fishclamps]

ouch, 2 on their best player

[Merkin]

Larsson with 3 assists already

[84Cat]

Love from Oakland for 3

[AZCatGirl]

Love going off!

[84Cat]

Love raining 3s

[Alieberman]

We could have our walk-ons playing the entire 2nd half

[Beachcat97]

It's crazy how quickly we can get up double digits while still making mistakes.

[84Cat]

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

[Merkin]

Filip already in

[dovecanyoncat]

We pretty good kinda sorta

[Lute4God]

Let's see Bradley and the rest of the bench keep up the intensity on D

[AZCatGirl]

So Don didn't think we could win at Duke. Shocking.

[Alieberman]

Krivas putting in some work

[84Cat]

[AZCatGirl]

Nice to see Bam Bam hit a 3. Maybe that will get him going.

[Fishclamps]

My man Fili B!!!

[arizonawildcats]

Throw it down big man

[dovecanyoncat]

Maybe Vegas knew we would wear out our bench this game, hence the spread.

[Fishclamps]

Boswell having himself a sophomore slump

[Lute4God]

Imagine if FiliB gets comfortable on D and we could have that kind of PnR with Krivas off the Bench

[dovecanyoncat]

How long was the Zags' home court streak before losing to SDSU?

[Alieberman]

Is McLean drunk?

[AZCatGirl]

Nice Pelle!

[dovecanyoncat]

Fity!

[LuteIsGod]

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.

[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.

[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.

[Merkin]

Krivas with 10 points and FilipB with 4

[dmjcat]

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

[Alieberman]

I can't believe this Cal team found 4 teams to beat in the non-conference.

[Chicat]

LOL at this PAC-12 Network fluff piece on a team that’s currently down eleventy million points.

[EastCoastCat]

We are good. Cal is bad.

[AZCatGirl]

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!

[Fishclamps]

On another positive note, ASU looks like absolute shit!

[dovecanyoncat]

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.