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Message: [QUOTE="FridaFriend, post: 2969870, member: 8582"] I sat several rows up behind the Cal bench at the game yesterday and I wanted to make some observations. First, this game was a REALLY big deal in Berkeley. The San Francisco Chronicle never gives women’s basketball more than a few lines on a back page (Sometimes Stanford gets more mention). This morning, the UCONN game was front page of the sports section with a picture of Collier and Anigwe fighting for a rebound. The paper said that this was the largest attendance for any Cal women’s basketball home game ever. Coach Gottlieb wanted to use this game to help make women’s basketball popular and worth attending. I was in the middle of a Cal fan section and they were cheering loudly for Cal. They were also saying, “Wow, look at that Samuelson kid. She can do everything. We get a basket and she immediately gets one back. Nobody can stop her.’ They also said, “UCONN really plays as a team and everybody can shoot and handle the ball. They look like they know what they’re doing, even when they miss.” As to Geno and his coaching: Every timeout, he had the players gathered around him for the entire time. Cal players would be back on the floor ready to play and Geno didn’t let them go until the horn sounded. He was working very intensely with them the entire period. My impression was that he wanted to stay with the starters for the entire game, because he wanted them to play together great. I have seen him get bored or exasperated with his players; not today, he was intensely involved the entire game. I think he understood that people came to the Haas Pavilion yesterday to see the best team in the United States, not to see their understudies being trained. [/QUOTE]

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