It's annoying, as always, to see Mike Eades calling this ks-msu match.
Shudder...barf.
Thought maybe we could have a single thread discussing officiating. (Yes, I know folks will still complain about officiating in game threads and that this thread will at some point devolve into a playing time discussion, but it seems worth trying.)
I’ll start off. The Big Ten decided to dump Teddy Valentine this year.
https://collegebasketball.nbcsports...er-34-seasons/
Seems like a good move, but he’ll still be doing ACC games.
It's annoying, as always, to see Mike Eades calling this ks-msu match.
Shudder...barf.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
and his crew embarrassed themselves again today...we needed to get this thread back near the top.
Seriously...how does K stay as composed as he does when he sees this kind of trash go against him on far too many occassions?
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The thing that I thought was most hilarious was the fact Dickie V was calling him TV Teddy during the broadcast, when fanbases use that completely as a pejorative term. (Somebody may have mentioned this already in the game thread).
I mean, I don't think they were the greatest and I admit I was pissed at the screen a few times with calls, but it's not like the foul discrepancy was that great. We have to somewhat expect that on the road. The thing that is also funny to me is how emphatic the ref was in giving the ball to FSU at the end...and then the review showed he was clearly wrong. Some other head-scratchers in there including Zion's eye poke, the RJ poster dunk (how was that NOT an and-1?), Bolden's clean block that was called a foul, but I certainly don't subscribe to a theory that there's a bias against Duke or anything. I do subscribe to the theory that there's some bias against visiting squads typically which contributes to home court advantage...Honestly, in this game, I felt not enough fouls were called as FSU was playing extremely physical. I think the majority of 50/50 calls went their way, but sometimes them's the breaks.
I haven’t read all the threads yet, but I haven’t seen anyone mention that seemingly Tre Jones forced a 10 second violation that wasn’t called with a little more than a minute to go in the game. FSU didn’t end up scoring on that possession luckily.
Speaking of Vitale, when did he start laughing like Seth Rogan?
I noticed a lot of dead wrong calls in several games yesterday. They weren't even close calls, just blatantly incorrect.
In the UNC-Louisville game, a Louisville player hooked and held onto a UNC player on a rebound.
Bilas:. They're going to go review that on the monitor, the hook and hold is a point of emphasis this year. A kid got his arm broken because of a hook and hold last year, so any suspicion of a hook and hold will get reviewed and it'll be a flagrant 1. The refs have no say if the severity of it what so ever, if it's a hook and a hold, which it clearly is, it's a flagrant 1. This is going to be UNC ball, flagrant 1 on Louisville.
He repeats this repeatedly throughout the review.
Refs come back from the monitor, "it'sa common foul, he didn't hook him hard enough.". 😂
In that same game, UNC player on a fast break, Louisville player gets a clean, clear chasedown block, ref calls goal tending on Louisville.
Very. Next. Play. Louisville player goes up for a shot, UNC player gets a clesr, clean block, goal tending on UNC.
Too many others to list throughout the day. It was not a good day for officiating.
A couple of other calls yesterday that I thought were suspect, both late in the game when we were leading by two. With 5:35 left, Tre was called for a block by TV and I thought it was a charge. The look on Tre’s face indicated he disagreed with the call. With two minutes left, Bolden appeared to block a shot from behind but was called for the foul. He was out of position so that didn’t help his cause. I’ve never seen him so animated and I’ve never seen him jump that high (lol) in reaction to the call. All of the guys seem to be coached to not over react to bad calls because that’s part of the game. Even Coach K seems to have mellowed over time.
I agree Tre should have gotten the call on that one. That was an obvious charge. I don’t see any reason why Tre got called for a block.
Upon further review of Bolden’s call, it looked like a foul to me after replay. When I played it in slow motion it didn’t look like Bolden’s hand was high enough to block the basketball. Even if it wasn’t a foul, in real time it looked like a foul especially when he is beat and comes from that angle.
Physical game as expected, but I really don't think it was poorly officiated. Complaining about officiating is a worldwide sports tradition, but I just didn't see a major problem yesterday other than Zion being clawed.
Don't forget the foul they called on us when the FSU player pump faked on the three towards the end of the game. Not only was it a questionable foul call, but after the pump fake the shooter's foot was clearly on the line, but they still gave him three foul shots, with no review.
I just watched it again about 10 times. He clearly slides the right foot back behind the line before he goes up for the shot. The whistle bows after he goes up. It was a 3 point attempt.
The replay on the telecast shows a different angle but doesn’t actually show the foot on the floor.
Last edited by BandAlum83; 01-13-2019 at 11:10 AM.
you can't possibly make that statement for at least two reasons...
A: not every pump fake situation is the same, not by a million light years...
B: I will not excuse any official who doesn't understand point A.
EDIT: oh, and another
C: We do see situations every season (not enough) where the ref clearly does NOT bite on these phony fouls...especially at end game and end/clock situations.
Sounds like you know what of you speak then. (couldn't resist)
FSU plays WVU basketball. Hit em so hard and so often they can't call everything. K was aware of the physicality when he saw the schedule, and mentioned it to reporters (they kept saying how he wasn't worried about Xs and Os).
I didn't see the refs as egregious for the most part, just thought that FSU us one of those teams impossible to referee with.
I sure don't want any part of them in the tournament - mostly because I care more about player health then Ws.
Absolutely, and that was evident even without slo-mo. Many refs are just over-matched by the speed of the game. How a zebra can tell with absolute clarity what happened when they are in the back court while the ref immediately on the of the play, within four feet, sees nothing?
OK, we're supposed to accept that they catch more than they miss but they control the game and can definitely swing it on bad calls.
K has reached the stature of being allowed more leeway and 99.9999 times out of 100, he surely knows more about the game than the seasonal workers. During the clemson game he laid into the newest/youngest member of the crew (I didn't recognize the guy) with at least a minute of instructional conversation and then an arm pat. The ref then walked over to Roger Ayers at the free throw line and they must have been reviewing the chit chat. Roger kind of raised an eyebrow (everybody laughs at me for carrying binoculars into stadiums) but it was interesting to watch the back and forth.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'