Defense on Buddy

[ousooners1baby]

I can gripe about what we did wrong all night but I don't get how the officials let that crap go on without them suckers fouling out before half. You can not hold a player and face guard them and bump and shoulder them keeping them from touching the ball. There really is no physical way a player could keep Buddy from touching it without fouling. I thought this season was gonna be called tighter and free this crap up? What in the name of John Higgins was going on out there? I am still pissed about it. How many times did you see a shoulder being thrown without a foul called?

The only reason we beat WVU the other two times is because they were not allowed to do that. Plus the fact that we actually had our heads out of our asses when crossing half court.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I can gripe about what we did wrong all night but I don't get how the officials let that crap go on without them suckers fouling out before half. You can not hold a player and face guard them and bump and shoulder them keeping them from touching the ball. There really is no physical way a player could keep Buddy from touching it without fouling. I thought this season was gonna be called tighter and free this crap up? What in the name of John Higgins was going on out there? I am still pissed about it. How many times did you see a shoulder being thrown without a foul called?

The only reason we beat WVU the other two times is because they were not allowed to do that. Plus the fact that we actually had our heads out of our asses when crossing half court.

Evidently there was a recent memo that said they could ignore the previous freedom of movement memo.

 

[22dupree]

WVU's entire game is based on what the refs do. If they police the game properly, they take a major hit in effectiveness. If they allow WVU to play "its game" of holding, reaching, bumping and bodying, you'll be in a battle that favors them. In the NCAAs, they need refs to permit their team of no stars to play that way for 5-6 games in a row ... and likely against blue blood programs and star players, led by coaches with influence. Good luck with that.

 

[chuckb]

West Virginia played tremendous defense on Buddy last night. If we'd have played defense with that kind of intensity for the first 35 minutes last night, we'd be preparing for Kansas right now.

 

[sdcloud9]

This is why Huggins plays so many guys so they can withstand foul trouble. They test the officials every night with their aggressiveness. They don't back off no matter how many fouls are called, it works to their advantage more often than not. It's a style of play that is unusual but effective.

I'll bet today against KU, the Jayhawks are shooting free throws pretty quickly unlike last night when they didn't foul for the first 10 minutes.

I don't blame Huggins for doing what he does, but the rules changes were supposed to clean that up.

 

[SilliSooner]

If a defender is face guarding you he's not watching the ball nor where the play is coming from. There's a reason that doesn't work in the NBA. The defender gets rubbed into hard screens until his bones rattle. Try that on Durant and Adams shoulder will knock a tooth out.

We needed guys like Manyang and even Woodard to set up down screens to abuse the face guarder a few times.

 

[Soonerinkc]

I'd even say get a foul or two, on manyang etc. Make them "think" about it..

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Since they basically locked him off, I would've told him if he couldn't get open (which was apparent), to go to the top of the key and be used as a ball screen every single time. If they don't switch, then you have an easy pull up and that's Cousins' game. I suspect teams will see this game and try and do the same thing. First round we shouldn't pay a team with an athlete capable of locking Buddy off but later on we could see this type of thing.