What if..

[TINY]

What if the refs didn’t steal doolittle’s 2 points off the board? I have no idea why they stopped the play right there. The shot clock was irrelevant. Very poor judgement.

 

[CoachTalk]

or the 3 points off the running through a screen. That is always a bucket!

 

[WichitaSooner]

or the 3 points off the running through a screen. That is always a bucket!

Unfortunately, with stupid college rules, it apparently isn't. Same thing happened on a shot by Manek in Wichita. It's another example of how badly college needs to adopt NBA rules because in the NBA, he would clearly have been considered in the shooting motion when the screener was run over. But I knew as soon as they showed the replay that they would wipe the basket off. As for the layup, just horrible judgment by the ref. Let the possession play out and then go to the monitor to determine whether the shot clock issue had any impact. It was clear Brady was in the process of finishing an uncontested bunny.

 

[tmeyer3307]

I went nuts on the shot clock situation. How is that official that worried about the shot clock right there? He should have seen the rebound and the bounce pass for a bucket and known not to blow his whistle. Instead his eyes went straight to the shot clock for some reason and blew it dead right away. The foul on the 3 pt shot I figured they wouldn't give to us. That one doesn't bother me as much.

Baylor got all of the 50/50 balls it seemed. They also hit so many tough shots or timely 3s right after we hit one. This game gives me hope for this team still!

 

[thebigabd]

What if the refs didn’t steal doolittle’s 2 points off the board? I have no idea why they stopped the play right there. The shot clock was irrelevant. Very poor judgement.

These sorts of hypotheticals don't hold much water, and I will explain why.

Every event following those events are different, so you can't simply add 5 points to the OU column.

• Perhaps, after that bucket is made, Baylor leaks out and gets an easy bucket real quick off the inbounds.
• Baylor might not start taking the air out of the ball and running clock
• OU strategy the rest of the way would have been different
• Perhaps certain substitutions would have happened or not happened that impacted certain events on the court

You just don't know.

 

[TINY]

These sorts of hypotheticals don't hold much water, and I will explain why.

Every event following those events are different, so you can't simply add 5 points to the OU column.

• Perhaps, after that bucket is made, Baylor leaks out and gets an easy bucket real quick off the inbounds.
• Baylor might not start taking the air out of the ball and running clock
• OU strategy the rest of the way would have been different
• Perhaps certain substitutions would have happened or not happened that impacted certain events on the court

You just don't know.

Maybe it was the boost we needed to go on a run and win comfortably?

What I do know is it was terrible judgment by the scrubs in stripes.

 

[skyvue]

You just don't know.

Maybe the better question is, as an OU fan, would you choose to have those two calls go our way and take our chances on the final results?

I would.

 

[Soonerinkc]

3 didn’t count with current rules. Doo got run over before manek was in shooting motion.

Agree on the what if’s....But bu can do that as well.

We had several foo bars on passes and coverage on the BLOB that could have changed as well.

 

[thebigabd]

Maybe the better question is, as an OU fan, would you choose to have those two calls go our way and take our chances on the final results?

I would.

Yep. Doesn't mean the logic is good though.

 

[skyvue]

Yep. Doesn't mean the logic is good though.

Post-game what-ifs seldom are. But they can be (a little bit) satisfying if you feel as though your team got a raw deal.

 

[vbdad]

Doo got ran over before Manek shot but the foul wasn't called until he was in the shooting motion. There was and always is a delay between the foul and one being called.

 

[cowboysooner]

The run through on Doo was intentional and a called play. There should have been an intentional foul called with OU getting free throws and the ball. You simply aren't going to see that call on the road.

Baylor had a foul to give that wouldn't result in free throws, and if Manek got free do to a screen late in that game, Baylor intended to run through the screen in such a fashion as to plainly necessitate a call by the officials. Smart play calling by Coach Drew. Better that OU take the ball out of bounds and reset their defense to stopping Manek than allowing him to shoot an uncontested three. Smart play and it worked.

So, I have watched the game several times now, and nobody on Baylor's team runs through a screen that way until just the right moment. In short, I don't have direct evidence of their intent but just think it to be true.

 

[steverocks35]

The run through on Doo was intentional and a called play. There should have been an intentional foul called with OU getting free throws and the ball. You simply aren't going to see that call on the road.

Baylor had a foul to give that wouldn't result in free throws, and if Manek got free do to a screen late in that game, Baylor intended to run through the screen in such a fashion as to plainly necessitate a call by the officials. Smart play calling by Coach Drew. Better that OU take the ball out of bounds and reset their defense to stopping Manek than allowing him to shoot an uncontested three. Smart play and it worked.

So, I have watched the game several times now, and nobody on Baylor's team runs through a screen that way until just the right moment. In short, I don't have direct evidence of their intent but just think it to be true.

That play has never been called an intentional foul one time in the history of the planet.

 

[BCSooners]

That play has never been called an intentional foul one time in the history of the planet.

And never will or should be.