Mark Madsen on Cal's Offensive Style

Well, I mean, that's a good question. I appreciate the question. Thank you, Mr. President. We need to be able to win both types of ways. We need to be able to win the games that are slugging out, you know, 10 yards in a cloud of dust. We have to be able to win those games with execution, with precise sets, which we have. We also have to be able to play fast. We have to be able to play against shifting defenses. We have to be able to play if a team tries to speed us up. It has been, up to this point, for us to be able to play fast, and I think we saw glimpses of that tonight and that was gratifying to see because of how much we've worked on it. Mark, in the category of things to work on, you guys gave up 49 points in the second half and were a little loose on the perimeter. Can you talk a little bit about that part of the defense? Yeah, we got back cut, I think, eight times for Lansing on the season. Absolutely on its own. We closed out short to their shooters. We've been closed out short to their shooters, that's a major problem. I'm not happy about that, they're not happy about that. They know that they have to be better, I have to be better as a head coach. Ultimately as a staff, we can do better to address those errors. I think the wide open catch and short reads in the back row is not good, it can't look like that.