Two stats from WVU game

[Zimwillett]

The traveling call on Buddy late was an indication of how much WVU gets away with. Two WVU players bumped and bumped Buddy until he just couldn't take it anymore. Combine that with their propensity to apparently always stay vertical when we went to the basket after breaking the press set us up for a close, poor shooting game.

Those are the easy ones to see, but the way WVU crashes the glass could be called a foul on virtually every play as well. Seriously, watch next time we play them. Rebounding is naturally a physical part of every game, but WVU takes it to a whole new level. But if they called that properly, #41 would foul out of every game before halftime.

 

[oudna]

I actually didn't have a problem with that play. They didn't reach. To me that is the key. Buddy had a chance to make a pass, it's almost as if he was fishing for the foul call that never came.

One guy completely jumped into him about 2 seconds before the travel.

A heinous no-call.

 

[oudna]

A lot of people would say OU played that style under Sampson. I sure didn't hate it back then.

Watching OU play OSU in the early 00's would have qualified as punishment for war criminals.

 

[Zimwillett]

Watching OU play OSU in the early 00's would have qualified as punishment for war criminals.

:ez-laugh:

That "style" of play has been a problem for years and Sampson and OU were huge culprits. I thought it was funny during the KU game when they showed the last "#1 vs. #1" matchup was a 49-48 final. That's just gross.

It's a small sample size, but the rule changes appear to have worked so far. I just hope the refs don't get lulled back into letting the Huggins of the CBB world bully them back into their old ways.

 

[DenverSooner]

I actually didn't have a problem with that play. They didn't reach. To me that is the key. Buddy had a chance to make a pass, it's almost as if he was fishing for the foul call that never came.

then we better eliminate the call for a moving screen because that is essentially what those guys were doing except they were moving and initiating the contact.

 

[WTSooner]

then we better eliminate the call for a moving screen because that is essentially what those guys were doing except they were moving and initiating the contact.

I know they say basketball is a non-contact sport, but it isn't.

I don't want the rules of basketball to become such that it is nearly impossible to stop a team from scoring. That isn't fun to me, in much the same way it isn't fun to some of you to watch a game that ends 49-48. There has to be a happy medium.

 

[WTSooner]

Watching OU play OSU in the early 00's would have qualified as punishment for war criminals.

I thought it was beautiful. Enjoyed watching it every bit as much as I enjoy watching the current OU team score 80 most nights.

 

[skyvue]

I know they say basketball is a non-contact sport, but it isn't.

I don't want the rules of basketball to become such that it is nearly impossible to stop a team from scoring.

I don't either, but I do want the rules enforced as written, and I don't care how many times the whistle has to blow when a team like WVU is on the court. This notion of "foul 50 times and you'll only get whistled 25 times" is for the birds.

 

[Section31]

I thought it was beautiful. Enjoyed watching it every bit as much as I enjoy watching the current OU team score 80 most nights.

Loved winning, hated watching it.

 

[Section31]

I don't either, but I do want the rules enforced as written, and I don't care how many times the whistle has to blow when a team like WVU is on the court. This notion of "foul 50 times and you'll only get whistled 25 times" is for the birds.

WT acts like other teams don't play defense. What WVU does is not defense. It's how less talented teams have to play...many refs let them do it.