How difficult is it to understand that when you're up 3 in the final 10 seconds, FOUL THEM!!! The second they cross half court! It's even more obvious a decision in college basketball where you can't advance it to half court with a timeout like you can in the NBA.
Why do teams that are up by three with a few seconds remaining continue to allow the opposition to get off a last-second three-point shot? We see it time and time again at the pro level and today we see it with Xavier shooting themselves in the foot by not turning it into a free-throw contest in the last 10 seconds of the game.
exactly! i wanted osu to win but i just don't understand. they even made a pass to another guy so you could've fouled the first guy at any time. having to go the full length makes it so much harder on the trailing team if you just foul. unless you're just deathly afraid they'll make the first and then grab the rebound on the second. but at least more things have to go wrong for you in that scenario than just one 3 pointer going in.
Tell me once again why is everyone so high on Oden? He can rebound and block shots, so could Dale Davis. I thought he was suppose to be a once in a generation type center? His offensive skill is about on par with Greg Ostertag .
Bingo. Even if I don't trust my team to make free throws, I'd honestly prefer to be up 2 and make the other team go the length of the floor in 3 or 4 seconds as opposed to being up 3 and letting them get a clean look in the half-court set around a pick (which happens almost every time). The Tyus Edney plays (length of the floor in under 5 seconds) are a lot more rare than the 3-pointers like the one we saw today. By the way, this game was almost an identical parallel to the UConn-Washington game last season. Xavier, like Washington, controlled much of the second half behind solid team shooting, but committed a couple of late turnovers and inexplicably let Rashad Anderson sink a three with two seconds left to tie the game instead of fouling. UConn won in overtime. Hopefully, the same thing that happened to UConn in its next game (loss) will happen to OSU next week.
The "P" word: Potential. He is extremely athletic and will be a force on defense from the start. The idea is he can grow his offense, which right now isn't much but has some upside. I see Oden being somewhere between Patrick Ewing and Deke. If he combines the best of both he will be great, but that's a tall order.
Total BS that A&M has to play Louisville in that environment. Oh well if they can somehow pull this out, the reward of getting to play in San Antonio will more than make up for it (which is total BS for Memphis/Ohio State or whoever has to play there). Acie getting 2 cheap fouls is not a good sign. The officiating has been awful both ways today. Louisville has had some cheap offensive fouls and so have the Ags. Not to mention extremely inconsistent. At least its been bad both ways although foul trouble will hurt the Ags a lot more.
Anyone else annoyed by the sheer amount of charging fouls that are called in college? Seems like its impossible to penetrate without being called for an offensive foul.
Yeah but it wasn't a judgment call - that was an easy intentional foul. He could have easily hacked the guy or grabbed his shirt and swiped at the ball but he decided to hurl the guy into the front row. The guy who affected teh end of the game wouldn't have been the officials - it was Oden for losign his cool.
Quoted for truth. If it were anyone other than Greg Oden, it would have been called a flagrant/intentional foul.
it's the main thing i hate about college ball. the lane is already crowded enough with the shorter 3, but when every defender who gets knocked down gets rewarded with a charge whether or not they slide right under the offensive player, it gets very frustrating. it's like if you blow by a guy on the perimeter your thought is not "how am i going to score now?" but "how am i going to avoid picking up a charge?" which is crazy. hell, i think the nba rewards too many charges for guys who slide over at the last second when a guy making a perfectly controlled drive has no chance to change his direction. it helps us with having battier, the charge king, on the team, but i'd rather the call be for post players lowering their shoulders to bull over someone or a penetrator driving wildly into a group of players, and not just a defender technically beating an offensive player to a spot by a split second after he's beaten his man.
and now a terrible charge call on maryland. geez. i have butler moving on so i guess i'm happy, but still.
wow, TERRIBLE CALL Good thing officials gave that one to em..holy ****, that charge call was RIDICULOUS
So both of the games that have finished today likely have different results if not for incredibly incompetent officiating. This is getting ridiculous.
