20/11 now. Nice debut!!

That’s true about the crutches.

Norris can go both ways with that hook. Teams are going to double her so that should create some open looks.

Yeah shine is in sweats it looks like. I don’t remember svanholm being in a brace at the exhibition game. Just guessing we don’t see her this season. Hopefully Shine gets healthy so we’d have another big body.

going to really have to work hard to make up for the lack of interior depth.

Yeah leaving Turner wide open is not a good defensive strategy

Looks like Svanholm is out with a big brace on her knee. Too bad.

And in case you want a sneak preview, here is the complete video of one of the summer exhibition games in Europe. For what it's worth, Bora started with Anigwe, Pepper, Beasley and Johnson. I only watched the first quarter, but one thing you can see for sure is that Les can be a lot more flexible with his lineup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88VAU71UHi4

Game day! Looks like, from this picture, that Bora has a soft cast on his left hand.

Cal favored by 6.5

Tough having your season opener at 11 am on a Monday.

I saw that we beat Chico by 25 over on the cal board. Can’t find any confirmation though.

I believe it was 4 games (won all 4 for what it’s worth).

Can't argue with your point. Losing a known stud like Ezra is definitely going to be tough to overcome. We'll have a better indication of where this team can go after next week, with two challenging road games and a home game against Cal Maritime.

Great Pix! Thanks for sharing

So I know it was just an exhibition game, and cal is brining in 6 new players and probably just wanted to try out a lot of different lineups, BUT….62-55 win against Chico is interesting. 11% shooting from deep is alarming. I know we have a lot of new players (I feel like this is the norm with the portal) too, but our summer trip should give us an early season advantage.

https://bearinsider.com/s/3363/cal-mens-basketball-tips-off-with-exhibition/3

I'm cautiously optimistic. Beasley is a proven D1 performer with some big game experience. He's a different type of player than what we lost in Manjon, but I'm sure Les will figure out how to use him, and Johnson, to fill the Ezra void.

Plus, it'll be nice to have more height up and down the lineup. We lost 6'8", 6'6", 5'11", 6'5", 6'6", and 6'3" (some transfers, some graduation), but added 6'7", 6'3", 6'3", 6'9", 6'7", 6'7", and 6'9". That'll probably give Les more flexibility in his lineups.

Ags win 76-51. Went ice cold.

Overall looked decent. Sussman has good passing skills and is clearly a smart player. Don’t know if she has much of an outside shot but she’ll be a big contributor. Norris hit a corner three and was a lot more aggressive in the second half. We’ll have to watch out about the turnovers. Some of the sloppiness of course was because it was the first game. But still it’s a trend from last year.

Fun to have basketball back!

Yeah that’s why Darius wasn’t at the football game last week.

62-30 Ags after 3. Good defense turning into some easy buckets.

Sandy Simpson and Dez Abayta in attendance. And Kayla Konrad doing analyst work with Greg Wong.

39-22 Ags at half. They turned off the stats so I don’t know exactly who scored what. Seemed more balanced in the second quarter.

Random thoughts. Turner needs to score well for us to win. She’s the focal point. Baker brings quickness to the point position that Burns and Gray don’t have. She needs to watch the turnovers but I’ll chalk some off that up to jitters. Norris is looking pretty decent. Moves well but it’s hard to gauge when you’re playing against a small D2 team. Sussman is definitely in the CC role but of course we can’t expect that level of contribution. All healthy players got into the first half.