So Iowa fans are claiming the refs won it for LSU.
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I thought the refs were horrendous
LSU had three starters on the bench the whole second quarter due to fouls. The problem for Iowa was there were not three white referees helping them with bogus calls. Go to hell Iowa fans!
They dont know how to call the games. Becausee our Girls were bigger when there was contact we got called for blocking. Against smaller defenders who get sent flying there is no consideration for blocking.
it happened in our game with Iowa. Cardosa was covering their BIG girl when she was dribble-driving, she lost the ball, ran to retrieve it and then lurched back toward the goal banging into Cardosa. Cardosa didn't move and BIG girl got bumped out from her own contact. she hit that wall so to speak and we still got called for the foul. The refs couldn't even imagine that it was a charge, but it was. we still got spanked. Played scared. I fear Dawns victim stuff might be rubbing off. She needs to embrace Win anyway. She also all but told Boston to leave. Almost saying she wasn't being called fairly. That sht will eat a team up if she doesn't watch it.
it happened in our game with Iowa. Cardosa was covering their BIG girl when she was dribble-driving, she lost the ball, ran to retrieve it and then lurched back toward the goal banging into Cardosa. Cardosa didn't move and BIG girl got bumped out from her own contact. she hit that wall so to speak and we still got called for the foul. The refs couldn't even imagine that it was a charge, but it was. we still got spanked. Played scared. I fear Dawns victim stuff might be rubbing off. She needs to embrace Win anyway. She also all but told Boston to leave. Almost saying she wasn't being called fairly. That sht will eat a team up if she doesn't watch it.
It's their job as fans. You're not a fan if you don't do that.
The officiating in our game was lousy. As you pointed out, and I will respond to, our size sort of makes us a big juicy opportunity for flopping as we saw all year, and seems to make the refs “not see”when our big girls are beaten to a pulp on their forearms, arms and backs by opponents trying to rebound, not able to , and then hacking to steal the ball. We beat it a lot and lose it back sometimes.
We just had a bad game last night with our shooting, had a bad strategy on defense a bit, and it’s history. As I said in another post, we’ve all known a bad game against a good opponent happens at times. This was ours. But we had “help”. NCAA needs to step up its game in officiating WBB. Time for a change there. I have no clue what to do there. But it’s bad.
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I was listening to Brad Muller (oops) on the radio call and he said Boston's first two fouls were ridiculous, that had an effect on the entire game, sad!
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Agreed but we didn't have a game plan to win that game. I don't think those two fouls changed the outcome.
So glad our fans do not stoop to the level of blaming the refs for any of our losses.
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Seriously, how does LSU's coach walk all over the court, and then swats away the refs arm, without even a warning, let alone an automatic T.
In all honesty, I believe this was the worst overall officiating I have seen and I believe if all coaches were honest, they all felt it was very hard to know how to coach their teams because calls were extremely inconsistent.
Look at yesterday for example. LSU had no fouls at all with about a minute to go in first quarter while Iowa had about 7 already. Then within a 20 second span, LSU got three fouls called on them. It was almost as if they made those calls to try and even it up. I can think of several times even the announcers were baffled by some calls. I think Lobo was stunned at some of the calls made against Boston Friday night and said it was really tough to have those called on here. The technical on Clark was iffy as well and most times a ref is behind the basket which is where she bounced the ball towards. She probably assumed a ref was there and did not intend to cause a delay of game.
Officials earn their way to these games but these ladies all seemed way in over their heads and officiated the games in a state of panic not knowing whether to make a call or not and went with making lots of calls rather than none. It was making the games hard to watch and very hard for the teams to get in any flow. Its a shame that we had lots of superstars there to play and notice that Boston sat all 2nd quarter of our game and some of first. Reese sat all second quarter and part of first yesterday. Clark had 3 fouls in first half. The refs were almost saying that they wanted to put the stars in their place and refs be in charge but it really affected outcomes of games.
A good ref is one you almost dont know is there because their calls do not determine the game, the players do. Overall the refs did determine alot about these games and not in a good way.
Look at yesterday for example. LSU had no fouls at all with about a minute to go in first quarter while Iowa had about 7 already. Then within a 20 second span, LSU got three fouls called on them. It was almost as if they made those calls to try and even it up. I can think of several times even the announcers were baffled by some calls. I think Lobo was stunned at some of the calls made against Boston Friday night and said it was really tough to have those called on here. The technical on Clark was iffy as well and most times a ref is behind the basket which is where she bounced the ball towards. She probably assumed a ref was there and did not intend to cause a delay of game.
Officials earn their way to these games but these ladies all seemed way in over their heads and officiated the games in a state of panic not knowing whether to make a call or not and went with making lots of calls rather than none. It was making the games hard to watch and very hard for the teams to get in any flow. Its a shame that we had lots of superstars there to play and notice that Boston sat all 2nd quarter of our game and some of first. Reese sat all second quarter and part of first yesterday. Clark had 3 fouls in first half. The refs were almost saying that they wanted to put the stars in their place and refs be in charge but it really affected outcomes of games.
A good ref is one you almost dont know is there because their calls do not determine the game, the players do. Overall the refs did determine alot about these games and not in a good way.
Caitlin and the officiating has us all talking women's basketball. Good for women's basketball.
Hard to adhere to a game plan when your best players are on the bench. We had to play very timid after that to keep from offending the officials. I think those two fouls absolutely changed the outcome. Sadly, we didn't have the opportunity to find out.....