After losing to No. 2 Stanford in three sets at home on Friday night, Cal volleyball coach Rich Feller took one disgusted look at the stat sheet and asked:

"Do you want to ask questions, or should I just go?"

In his short, direct monologue, the point came across clear: The No. 7 Bears-losers of four of their last six-need to find a way to win, and fast.

"We're not going to run any kind of offense if we can't pass," Feller said. "They did not play together, and this is just what I said to them. They were not good. There's no hiding it. They were not good."

The 3-0 (25-23, 23-16, 25-20) loss to the Cardinal was characterized yet again by a lack of team chemistry, the trademark of the squad's recent slump.

"We didn't pass well," sophomore setter Carli Lloyd said. "It's not like we served poorly, but we just didn't terminate balls … We weren't on our game. We were all over the place tonight. It's not just one thing. It's everything."

The Bears (20-5, 10-4 in the Pac-10) hit a woeful .167, and only middle blocker Mindi Wiley was able to record an attacking percentage over .300. Wiley was also the only Cal player to reach double digits in kills, with 10.

"Our outsides are great, and I think that Stanford knew that," Wiley said. "I think their primary defensive attack was blocking our outsides, which was smart of them … It was hard for our outsides to have that big, solid block out there."

The Bears routinely appeared disjointed and struggled to put solid swings on their attacks. Across the net, Stanford (22-3, 13-1) showed off its high-powered offense to the crowd of nearly 4,000-a record number for a regular-season volleyball game at Haas Pavilion.

The Cardinal's pair of senior All-Americans, outside hitter Cynthia Barboza and middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo, utilized high sets to get over Cal's block and combined for 25 kills and just one error. In the Bears' last meeting with Stanford on October 19-a 3-1 victory at Maples Pavilion-they limited the duo to a .218 attacking rate.

"Stanford was great," Feller said. "When they were out of system, they made smart plays and kept the ball in play. They did nothing to hurt themselves, so I give them a lot of credit. But we certainly didn't play our game."

After yet another frustrating loss, the attitude of the team was one of impending urgency to locate the source of their recent troubles.

"We can't do this anymore," Lloyd said. "We're all hard on ourselves already, but (Saturday and Sunday) we have off and we're really going to have to look into ourselves to find something more because as a team we're not working well together anymore."

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