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The makings of a big weekend against the Panthers? 🤔

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Had some technical difficulties out of my control but finally got this week's podcast posted, and Maria and I dive into this week's matchup against Pitt plus take a look back at a pretty magical Saturday for the Bears with ESPN College Gameday in Berkeley for the first time. Spotify is not playing nice right now with our podcast host so I will swap it out as soon as it uploads there.

I attended the full and officiated scrimmage today and was impressed with the overall talent that we have and our team's obvious good chemistry. Our coaching staff of Mark, Maz, Ammorow, Ken, Matt and Jarred really teaches our players constantly and seems to be putting in place more complex sets on both ends of the court. The Blue team (presumed starters) were Maddy, Andrei, Rytis, OJ and Jovan. The Gold team was Lee, BJ, Christian, Jeremiah and Spencer. To illustrate our depth, the bench Gold team won the scrimmage in a highly contested match (I was worried about a few players getting hammered by not so friendly fire). We do not have a real go-to player like JT was last season. OJ can get way-way up with a fantastic ability to sky and produced the OMG dunk of the day as he moved like a lightning bolt along the baseline. Jeremiah is a star in the making and does not look like a frosh (and may have the best 3 point stroke of the team). Andrei and Rytis are just solid and hustle constantly. Jovan is a very heady PG at age 25 but is small which could be a problem when he has to match up with much bigger PGs in the ACC, Mady and Lee give us the best rim protection in many years, possibly since Leon Powe was with us. I see an 8-9 rotation with several backups in the event of injuries that will be decent.

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Not sure I would've gone with the bear claw again after a loss, but maybe it gets the bad juju off if they can get a win. Here's this week's uniform combo for Cal for its matchup at Pitt on Saturday.