by Morris Phillips

BERKELEY–This year’s Cal Golden Bears have put it together their a team now. You can sense it, the fans can sense it, the announcers can sense it. Whatever happened in Virginia that kind of put the lights on for Cal after losing there back east they took their first two games of the Pac 12 season. The Bears trailed for only six minutes in the two games they just won against Colorado and then Utah.

Defensively they were lights out the Bears just stopped both teams cold in their tracks. There were 30 NBA scouts in attendance for the game with Utah on Sunday. What you want to see is if your an NBA evaluator you want to see these guys go against top flight teams.

The issue is Cal can put out seven footers and Ivan Rabb at 6’11 and the wings are all 6’6 and 6’5 and their really committed to playing top flight defense. Still they have a lot of growth to do offensively but this is definitely a team on the rise.

Morris Phillips is a beat writer for the Cal Bears listen to his podcast below and every week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com