Scott Rich

They are

prone like smu to taking a lot of mid-range jumpers you know not following the analytics that free throws and threes or sorry layups and threes are all you do so this is a team that by all accounts is fundamentally sound they're very very experienced even if that experience wasn't at cal we'll talk about that when we talk about the players they do everything well but there's

They don't seem to squeeze that extra juice out of the orange in terms of maximizing their efficiency, which is why they're, again, a barely top 75 net team, a team that's more in the muck of the ACC.

You know, it's interesting.

You only mentioned the matchups against top 100 teams, and there are only a handful of those for a reason.

Cal's record is very much inflated by playing some very subpar non-conference teams.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fact that they played a game against the Dominican Penguins.

And you'd say, oh, Dominican, their mascot's a penguin.

Where are they located from?

They're a team in California.

They're a D2 representative from California that was somehow named a penguin.

I'd love to dive in deep in how they settled on the penguins as their mascot.

But that is a little bit of a flavor of the types of teams that Cal was beating up on when they were doing all of these positive things, when they were not turning it over, when they were shooting closer to 40% from deep.

Is this team the team that's 13-4, or is this team the team that's 1-3 in the ACC?

This week for them is going to go a long way into determining that.

So yeah, so this is going to be the second game in a row where Duke fans are going to see a name on the opposition and go, eh, I wonder if, I wonder if it's that kid.

And it is.

Justin Pippen is the son of Scotty Pippen.

He is one of the two main engines that drives this Cal team along with Day Day Aims.

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