Play a true road & stop crying. Yes, UNC has a bad loss but UK doesn’t have any quality wins.
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I think so. They have some good players. Some good athletes. Personally I think they're a NCAAT team. But what I think is irrelevant. Your brethren, and the majority I may add, called them bad...terrible...pitiful. So I was just pointing that out.
I didn't defend the call. I gave you a reason on WHY I could see a foul being called. Watch the clip w/o bias. Look at the UK players right hand. He does give a subtle "push" to the small of the back. Was it so bad that it caused the UConn player to fall? Probably not. But as an official you are TRAINED to protect the dribbler/ball handler. Meaning,no matter how light the contact is,if inyour judgement it causes said player to lose the ball, fall, go OOB, etc,etc....then call a foul. See here is the thing you do not understand. Officials do not have the luxury of seeing what you see. We don't have 25 different angles. Or super slo-mo camera's. We have to make a call, or no call, in a split second. ANother thing is the view. I've always said the fans who are 10 rows up or more, have the best view----And they do. From that view point, you can see the entire floor. That's not the case when you're a floor level.
No you do not have to be an official to see a bad call. BUT........A lot of calls you think are bad aredue to the fact of not understanding the rules, and the criteria that go with them.
My thought on the Higgins call in the FF? Well, I think it was a bad call. But unfortunately for Higgins, he didn't have the benefit of watching the play 56 times, in slow motion, before deciding what to call.
The charge call, as I already said, I felt was bad; Though I could argue it looked as if Gabriel traveled...
Certainly could've been. Hard to tell if the third step came before or after the contact.
You know, I like you as a poster on here. I like a lot of the things you have to say, but don't tell me how I need to post.
I'm not posting in caps, so I don't know where you're getting that I'm yelling or being dramatic.
I may have gone too far in saying that ALL college officials need more training and that I could step right in and do better (I actually never said that, I meant with the same amount of training, I feel like I could do a better job), but there is no way in hell that Boatright flop is a foul in any universe. I can't believe anyone would try to justify that call.
Sure, fine. I agree that it was a terrible flop. That said, I CAN imagine how the ref could have flubbed the call. Not that he was RIGHT to flub it at all; I just get how it could have happened, same way as if there was a driver who drove around with their parking brake on after getting really bad news or something... I get their mind was on something else, although it wasn't the right thing to do.
Okay, issue done, good stuff.
Okay, issue done, good stuff.
I never looked at it from multiple angles, I looked at it from the camera shot that is right behind the official.I didn't defend the call. I gave you a reason on WHY I could see a foul being called. Watch the clip w/o bias. Look at the UK players right hand. He does give a subtle "push" to the small of the back. Was it so bad that it caused the UConn player to fall? Probably not. But as an official you are TRAINED to protect the dribbler/ball handler. Meaning,no matter how light the contact is,if inyour judgement it causes said player to lose the ball, fall, go OOB, etc,etc....then call a foul. See here is the thing you do not understand. Officials do not have the luxury of seeing what you see. We don't have 25 different angles. Or super slo-mo camera's. We have to make a call, or no call, in a split second. ANother thing is the view. I've always said the fans who are 10 rows up or more, have the best view----And they do. From that view point, you can see the entire floor. That's not the case when you're a floor level.
No you do not have to be an official to see a bad call. BUT........A lot of calls you think are bad aredue to the fact of not understanding the rules, and the criteria that go with them.
My thought on the Higgins call in the FF? Well, I think it was a bad call. But unfortunately for Higgins, he didn't have the benefit of watching the play 56 times, in slow motion, before deciding what to call.
The charge call, as I already said, I felt was bad; Though I could argue it looked as if Gabriel traveled...
Honestly, I didn't think there was a way anyone could defend that call, I still don't, but I can understand why you would try.
I just think there needs to be more training and accountability. That's all, I'm not asking for too much there and I'm not intending to insult anyone.
But while I have you here, I have 1 thing I would like to question. Again, I've never been in this position, so I don't know. But, do you feel that officials are affected by home crowds?
Everyone feels like other teams/programs get home cooking and it certainly seems to me like refs sometimes go along with the crowd when making some calls. I've seen UK get the benefit at Rupp and I've felt it was something the crowd affected.
I also see it on the road, especially in conference play. In the SEC, UK goes on the road and it's T-Shirt night combined with some sort of white out and the crowd is all fired up. Then Pat Adams makes a call and acts like he just bowled the last strike in a 300 game as he's staring down a player.
I guess it's human nature to go with the flow as it can't be easy to make a call that's going to piss off the home crowd, but I am interested to see what you have to say about that.
Then call a travel, not an offensive foul.
That was anything BUT an offensive foul.
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