Cal Athletic file photo: Cal Bears Don Coleman take the jumper has scored 30 points in three games thus far this season as he gets another chance at 30 tonight when the Bears host Arkansas Central

By Michael Duca and Morris Phillips

BERKELEY–The Cal Bears are such a young group it’s like they can stop in the middle of a game and take out a blanket and take a nap. They struggled with a very experienced St Mary’s team on Saturday night at Haas Pavilion in a tough loss. The Golden Bears have seven scholarship freshman you have a player that transferred to the basketball program.

Don Coleman has been in the program but has been thrust into the role of elite scorer Cal’s super young beyond all of that. This Cal coaching staff is designing a style of play and they have made several changes here in terms of not playing two big guys now their scrapping the full court press and the trapping and defense that’s intent of forcing turnovers.

Cal head coach Wyking Jones is trying to put together a team that puts on it’s best one on one defenders on the floor. So there’s always changes at Cal that would suggest that what we saw on Saturday night against St Mary’s was Cal in development stage. That may not have been St Mary’s best performance but their an awfully good basketball team as well.

Michael and Morris have much more on this edition of the Cal Bears Men’s basketball podcast at http://www.sportsradioservice.com every Monday and Wednesday