speedracer said:Dear Butler,
Please stop missing open layups.
Sincerely,
Me
phillyfan26 said:My bracket was murdered by Pitt losing.
speedracer said:Stephen Curry is pretty good at basketball.
Headache in a Suitcase said:
i had 'em in the final four as well... i hate myself for doing so.
Headache in a Suitcase said:i'm taking davidson to the final four out of spite.
phillyfan26 said:Having a murdered bracket does give me the flexibility of rooting for upsets non-stop.
jphelmet said:it was hard to watch any games after this on saturday night. no call on the last play of the game.
Headache in a Suitcase said:
did he get fouled? obviously.
do i hate refs? obviously.
but to be fair, in late game situations like that refs usually go by the "he has to be absolutely friggin hammered to get a foul call out of me" theory. in this still photo, he looks like he got hammered. in full speed, it looks like maybe he got fouled, maybe he got blocked. refs don't have the ability to see instant replay and/or still photography.
there is no grand pro-ucla right wing conspiracy involved here. just a bad call. it happens.
jphelmet said:
i in no way think there is a conspiracy, i was a ref for 5 years and loads of calls are missed in every game. this play though, he was tackled, and was enexusable. it certainly fell into the he "got hammered" category. you can tell by the way he gets thrown to the floor. the official under the basket had almost the exact same vantage point as the photographer.
had that been collison driving he would have shot free throws because of the influence of the crowd.
i do feel for ucla players (not as bad as for the a&m players though), its not their fault the officials blew the call. they have to hear this over and over and then everyone brings up the other games in which they won with horrible calls.
overall it was an awful officiated game, both ways. the allowed two defensive minded teams to get into a physical battle, and then didn't know where to draw the line. kevin love gets credited for 7 blocks, when 4 of them he almost took a guy's head off.
Headache in a Suitcase said:
refs suck... period. but these refs let them play the entire game, which in a game of this magnitude with these kind of games, if htey hadn't let htem play instead of complaining about this we'd be hearing about how the refs tried to controll the game by calling so many fouls. it's a no win situation, you just hope that they get it right when it counts. this time, they didn't.
but it's not as if a & m wins the game if the call is made. IF they make the call and IF they make both free throws, the game is still tied and UCLA has plenty of time to get a good shot going the other way, and if they miss they still have OT.
ok i'm done for now.
jphelmet said:but when jay bilas sitting courtside says its the worst officiating he has ever seen then there is a problem. he also made the comment that the foul on the last play was obvious from where he was.