Immediate analysis/reactions: Slow start follows Cal because the comeback against SMU | ends | basketball

Key Takeaways

Slow start turns out to be fatal again

After a trend of this season, a slow start was plagued by the bears after the resignation from 8:00 p.m., when the visitor to the first five minutes took the lead with 13: 3 in the first five minutes. The SMU stopped the gas during the first 20 minutes and put on 42 points in the first half.

The security guard Chuck Harris began the campaign by lit with three triple arches from beyond the arch – and that was only the beginning of the remarkable shootout of the Mustangs. The team of the SMU head coach in the first year, Andy Enfield's team, entered the changing room with a shooting clip of 58.1% at halftime, compared to 33% and 1-9 from CAL in the city center.

The bears could hardly buy one from the charity strip and shoot 8-14, and the outstanding newcomer Jeremiah Wilkinson was the only remarkable crowd source for Cal-Eer directly to keep his team competitive.

Much overdue, the bears finally played for the upswing in the second half after the Timeout Mark of the media brand and pouring away from SMUS at SMU to connect the Matchup with six minutes. A 10: 3 SMU run after the bears tied the competition, the Mustangs held at the front, where they could hold on to the last minutes of the game. The impulse swing was enough to excite the Haas pavilion and delete a 17-point deficit, but was not enough to correct the fights from CAL in the first half.

Consistency of Petraitis and Sissoko

Apart from Wilkinson's leading performance, Rytis Petraitis and Mady Sissoko Cal and the step in the second half. The 6-foot 9 center was reliable in the color and delivered 16 points on 5-of-8 shootings, including the last five points from Cal, and led the team with eight boards.

Petraitis came up with the hustle and bustle and energeted the bears on the extent of 12 points came to orchestrate half of the late second spraying. Although there were only a few positive in the first half, the couple was consistent in their roles and occurred when the bears tried to withdraw from a self -inflicted early deficit.

Cals game MVP

Wilkinson's 20-point performance-3 from Deep and a 10-point route, as Cal's only hit in the first half, brings him the clear MVP. The newcomer was fearless to test the defense of the Mustang, pounded on the trail and lit away Cals away from his slow start. He has achieved an average of 20.4 points per game since January 22nd and has nine 20-point games for his name das best from every calf newcomer since the 1995/96 season.

Eye opening statistics

It was perhaps Cals fifth defeat in a row, and the third episode was until the last minute, but the performance of the bears was not without a few positive aspects.

The team held against the SMU, the leading rebounding program of the ACC this season, in particular at their own offensive end, where they achieved 17 offensive boards for 21 second chance points and the Mustangs protruded to nine offensive for nine points. Cal also forced 18 Mustang sales and transformed them into 25 points in transitions when the SMU crime was an average of 11.8 per competition this evening.

I'm looking forward to

The Bears will celebrate Senior Night and play their last home game in Haas Pavilion on Saturday and organize the Boston College (12-16, 4-13 ACC) in a PST-TILT at 7 p.m. The Eagles are on the 16th place behind Bären in the ACC and are 0: 8 on the street this season, but a victory for Cal this weekend is all the more important with the fate of his ACC tournament offer. The Boston College is led by the second security guard Donald Hand Jr., who achieves an average of 16.6 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.