Growth is not linear; it is a journey. For a young basketball team and a first year head coach there will be moments of difficulty and failure. There will be moments that are thoroughly discouraging, and make it seem like nobody has any clue what they’re doing. But if you tune out and call for the coach’s head, you just might miss something. You might miss a team learning, maturing, and yes, growing. You might miss the development of good basketball. You might miss a special moment. And, most tragic of all if you’re a Cal fan, you might miss a Cal team going down to the Farm and slaying the Stanford dragon.
Cal is better than Stanford in basketball. A recap.
