Taking out a defender to give your best player a shot most definitely has a bearing on the play.
Concerning the foul at the end of the Iowa UConn game last night
- Thread starter PSUJam
- Start date
1 for 10 in the second half from 3 point line at one point. One more make they win.
Yes, they lost with dignity and grace. Others would profit by their example
Good idea! Let's ask "The Boss."
"Boss, you've read Gambits posts in this thread. Do you agree with him?"
So there you have it.
Last edited:
Refs should never swallow their whistle. As long as a game is called consistently from beginning to end, both teams know what they can and cannot do. Referees will never be perfect and that is part of sports at all levels.
Sri didn't mean UConn, just the peripheral haters. TV folks, other players and former players.
The reason it was such a bad call is it is rarely called. They never call 3 seconds, traveling or moving picks unless they are blatent, and that play wasn't.
I watched the purdue NC state game, there were picks that were slightly moving on virtually every possession. But I don't remember one being called.
It was a horrible call to make...
I watched the purdue NC state game, there were picks that were slightly moving on virtually every possession. But I don't remember one being called.
It was a horrible call to make...
It was absolutely blatant. So if UConn would have gotten a last shot off and an Iowa player hacked the shooter, they shouldn’t have called a foul because it was at the end of the game? Everyone would have been okay with that?
Bullcorn! It was a moving pick. Nobody knows how to set a pick or rub off the pick anymore. I was rooting for UConn, by the way.
It’s closer to a flagrant than a no call.
It is a foul 5 seconds into any game, and its a foul 5 seconds left in any game. UConn themselves made the correct post-game statement; that play alone did not lose the game for them, and that is true.
is it your belief that the officials care about the ratings for the next game? are u suggesting the ref supervisors encouraged this ? just wondering.
Thr officials are in a sport that is struggling to develop a following. The Caitlin Clark story has pushed attendance and ratings to new levels. The sport needed Clark in the Championship Game and now they have her. I am not saying the officials conspired to give the game to Iowa, or that any official entered the game with that intention. I am suggesting that subconsciously each official knew what was at stake and that the subconscious mind can influence behavior. I have seen it in 50 years of legal practice. There are studies regarding the subtle influence of unconscious bias on judges and jurors. Now, of course, I could be completely wrong here and it would not be the first time. Certainly UConn did more to bring about their loss than any official, but they still had a good chance to win at the end until the controversial call. They handled the loss with dignity and grace. Life moves on, and so shall I.
If only PSU had better dorms back in the day.
Good Luck having a basketball conversation with anyone that thinks that pick didn't have any effect on the play....and I didn't care either way who won that game.
That’s not even remotely true.
The mistake made at the end of the game started when UConn’s best player got the ball on a turnover. Beukers made a major mistake by calling a time- out. Your best player has the ball in her hands in a turnover, unbalanced, transition situation and she gives the opponent an opportunity to now set- up. I know that Geno would have wanted her to bust out off the turnover. As far as the illegal screen, even if it was not called, #24 was going to go double Beukers on the wing, so UConn would not have gotten the shot they wanted.