Michael Duca on Cal Bears Basketball By Michael Duca January 16, 2011     Sportstalk: Little different ball game Sunday night, when Allen Crabbe scored just 16 against Washington (13-4, 5-1) in the 92-71 loss than the one that Cal 9-8 (2-3) played against Washington State where Crabbe scored 30 points. Was it that the Huskies were all over the Cal offense and Cal just couldn't get anything going against the defense? No. Not at all. It was simply that Washington got surprised at Stanford and came out, literally, "loaded for bear." They got a career night from their best player, Isaiah Thomas, who registered his first double-double, and the Huskies shot the lights out. They were able to run at will against the Bears, who were never really successful at getting back in transition defense. Sportstalk: The Huskies Isaiah Thomas 27 points and Justin Holiday with 23 points and Matthew Bryan-Amaning followed up with 22 points. For Cal they couldn't stop either one it had to be frustrating for the defense? Well, you'd hope it was frustrating. Those three players out-scored the entire Bear squad, 72-71 on the night. Bryan-Amaning tallied his sixth double-double of the season. Sportstalk: No doubt about it the Huskies have a superior team was this something that the players and head coach Mike Montgomery expected when facing the Huskies? Was this a result to nobody's surprise? To quote Montgomery, "No, no, no. If they play that good all the time, they are pretty good. Washington was very good tonight, they made shots, played extremely hard. We were not at our best, and that's a bad combination. I think they got caught off guard Thursday, they came in here full of it, we got caught on our heels, and we didn't play our best. "They shot the ball. I think it all started with the fact that we came down and scored the ball, and 4 seconds later, they laid it up. I think they got a lot of confidence off that. We didn't play bad offensively early on, but we had trouble in transition. They just ran down the floor, beat us and laid it up."

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