Hook em!!!!!!

[stoops4pres]

And this from a poster on another board
Was talking some college hoops with another father in the neighborhood who was over for my daughter's birthday party yesterday. He claimed he knows a coach of an AAU squad - the one Kevin Durant was on. When he asks him how Texas of all places lands Durant, the guy's response was "300k goes a long way".

That honestly wouldn't surprise me about Durant if it was true. I always thought it was odd that Texas landed the best recruit out of ACC country at that time.

 

[AdaSooner]

laughing at Rick Barnes blaming the NCAA for not having the "power to review a 5-second violation".

Dude is reaching at this point.

Barnes is the biggest whiner in college basketball. He should spend more time working on his coaching skills than working the officials. The five second count was a good call. I played it back and counted it down twice, got 6 second both times.

 

[campbest]

Barnes is the biggest whiner in college basketball. He should spend more time working on his coaching skills than working the officials. The five second count was a good call. I played it back and counted it down twice, got 6 second both times.

Barnes should also take a look at the tape and look at his teams half-*** execution on the inbounds play. Hamilton and Brown both run to the corner leaving Gary Johnson working space in the middle. To make matters worse, he sends Wangmene on a fly.

lol, what an epic sequence.

 

[DenverSooner]

All of that started with Jordan Hamilton's bonehead decision to call timeout when no one was witin 15 feet of him, compound with J'Covan Brown spending four seconds in the backcourt bringing it up and I have no sympathy for UT.

Brown was getting borderline calls the final 10min of the game and was gift wrapped free throws, at some point you're not going to get that call and it worked against him. Johnson's foul occurred as time expired, if Brown wouldn't have walked up the floor with the ball, then it would be a discussion.

UT radio announcers said Barnes was going to ask for a TO regardless whether Williams made or missed his first attempt (the shot prior to the 5-second violation)...why? Huge mistake on Barnes' part.

Obviously it's great to see UT lose, but complaining about the officiating is a joke b/c the only reason they were in the game is because of it.

When Johnson went up for the shot the foul may have been after the game was over; however, he was fouled when he got the rebound. Worse is that Brown was fouled two times on his shot. The officials just gave Arizona an and one on the other end. Brown beat his defender and the guy bumped him hard on the shoulder. That was a foul. After that another player got him on the head and shoulder from the back. That was a foul. I would have been so pissed if I was Barnes. I would have been pissed at myself for not having the bench make that 5 second timeout call and then I would have been pissed that they called a foul on my team (and it was a foul) but did not call three fouls on the other team.

I felt bad for Corey Joseph. He is a really good player and made two big mistakes in the final 10 seconds by fouling and then not getting the ball in bounds.

 

[campbest]

When Johnson went up for the shot the foul may have been after the game was over; however, he was fouled when he got the rebound. Worse is that Brown was fouled two times on his shot. The officials just gave Arizona an and one on the other end. Brown beat his defender and the guy bumped him hard on the shoulder. That was a foul. After that another player got him on the head and shoulder from the back. That was a foul. I would have been so pissed if I was Barnes. I would have been pissed at myself for not having the bench make that 5 second timeout call and then I would have been pissed that they called a foul on my team (and it was a foul) but did not call three fouls on the other team.

Disagree on the foul calls, thought Brown just went into traffic and threw up a prayer. Brown was getting GIFTS the entire second half, which is pretty much undeniable. Going into traffic and jumping into people (the foul on Zona's big white guy) and running into a planted hedge (on the perimeter, same player) are not fouls. Just because he lets out a yelp and acts like he got shot, doesn't make it a foul. Barnes can't coach so he strategy down the stretch was to hope the refs and Brown bailed him out. Can only go to the well so many times before you are forced to actually make a basketball play.

Zona's inbounds play was a thing of beauty, there is a reason Williams had that lane to the bucket. Check that, if J-Ham would play a lick of defense he would have already been there to cut it off...but that's wishful thinking.

I felt bad for Corey Joseph. He is a really good player and made two big mistakes in the final 10 seconds by fouling and then not getting the ball in bounds.

Why? Corey Joseph tried to lose the game for UT against Oakland...he kept shooting and shooting, over and over when they were up. A normal coach would have benched Joseph because he was KILLING his team.

Not sure what you're talking where Joseph fouled.

 

[stoops4pres]

When Johnson went up for the shot the foul may have been after the game was over; however, he was fouled when he got the rebound. Worse is that Brown was fouled two times on his shot. The officials just gave Arizona an and one on the other end. Brown beat his defender and the guy bumped him hard on the shoulder. That was a foul. After that another player got him on the head and shoulder from the back. That was a foul.

I see your argument about Johnson getting fouled on the rebound, but like other posters have said he had been getting calls that day. It evened out.

As for Brown, are you basing your opinion on the initial camera shot? I think if you saw or paid closer attention to the footage from the baseline (which was better in determining whether or not Brown got fouled), you would see that it was a good no-call on Brown. I agree that the first camera shot and the angle it was filmed did look like it was a foul... But if you watch again from the baseline you'd see that he didn't get fouled. The CBS analysts had a similar discussion about it following the game, and all agreed that it was a good no-call as well.

 

[campbest]

I see your argument about Johnson getting fouled on the rebound, but like other posters have said he had been getting calls that day. It evened out.

As for Brown, are you basing your opinion on the initial camera shot? I think if you saw or paid closer attention to the footage from the baseline (which was better in determining whether or not Brown got fouled), you would see that it was a good no-call on Brown. I agree that the first camera shot and the angle it was filmed did look like it was a foul... But if you watch again from the baseline you'd see that he didn't get fouled. The CBS analysts had a similar discussion about it following the game, and all agreed that it was a good no-call as well.

You mean there is more than one camera angle? What a concept.

 

[stoops4pres]

You mean there is more than one camera angle? What a concept.

Crazy, isn't it?

 

[campbest]

Crazy, isn't it?

I was under the impression that the camera sitting in the middle of the upper deck on center court and zooming into the action was the only way to determine if a foul occurred or not.

Forgot for a second it is 2011.