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They showed this on Sportscenter.....how in the heck did the refs not see this??
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I can understand one ref...but three AND the scorer's table.....you would have thought someone from WKU would have been screaming their head off too. -
I like these quotes that seem to rationalize this-
"There are a whole bunch of times where there are six or seven guys on the court and it is technically a violation of the rule," Wood said. "You can blow the whistle and stop the play. But you can't go to the monitor and do it retroactively."
Retiring Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters told ESPN.com Thursday night that he was told that the sixth player isn't involved in the play. But when watching the video you can see that no one is essentially involved in the play as Payton takes the inbound pass and dribbles through traffic before getting to the rim.
"This probably happens more than we realize," Waters said. "Coaches are on the court, too. If the official had stopped it then it upsets the flow of the final seconds of the game. But we wish it wouldn't have happened."
So having 6 men on the court happens "a whole bunch of times"? Even 7 men on the court common? I have seen a lot of games, and I've never seen it before.
And the commissioner says that if the official had stopped it then it would have "upset the flow of the final second of the game"?
Huh? what kind of excuse it this? Don't all fouls upset the flow of the game? Maybe we should not allow any fouls or technicals to be called near the end of a game because they might upset the flow of the game! And it should have upset the flow- it gave Louisiana-Lafayett an unfair advantage to win the game.
"Coaches are on the court too"? Watch the video- this is not a case of someone from the bench stepping a little farther across the sideline than they should. This is 6 players all out running around the floor, causing the defense to extend out away from the basket which allowed the player with the ball to drive in for an easy layup. That was Louisiana Lafayette's only basket in the final 4 minutes of the game, and it was the game winner.
Here is the video. Nobody notices the 6 players on the floor-
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Originally posted by lefty View Post
lefty -- I suspect you recall the Sectional game in Mendota (2004) when Tyler's team almost lost because of a "T" from 6 players on the floor...
I does happen - kinda like the games where they play 7 minutes before realizing they are using the smaller women's ball...
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Paging the referees from the 1972 Olympics. We need you for a retroactive call or two...Bradley 72 - Illini 68 Final
???It??™s awful hard,??™??™ said Illini freshman guard D.J. Richardson, the former Central High School guard who played prep school ball a few miles from here and fought back tears outside the locker room. ???It??™s a hometown thing. It??™s bragging rights.??™Comment
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What a horrible job by everyone involved.
If you watch the video on ESPN, even court-side fans are holding up 6 fingers and yelling at the refs!When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.Comment
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I've heard it said that officials don't decide games!
???People say, ???Forget last year', but I want our guys to remember that one, because that will not happen again. We will be much better.??? Geno Ford, 9/22/12Comment
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99.9% of the time, I would agree with this. And this from a coach got a ton of T's a few years back. I tend not to like most refs, but I think most are fair and try to do their best.Originally posted by shaunguth View PostI've heard it said that officials don't decide games!
Sometimes though, they should just admit they were wrong.When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.Comment
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then you never saw the tapes of Bradley's game against #1 ranked San Francisco in the 1981 Rainbow Classic where the refs engineered an impossible turn of events that never happened in order to assure that USF would advance and not Bradley..Originally posted by shaunguth View PostI've heard it said that officials don't decide games!
Can you spell Yamashita...Comment
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Ohhh....I've seen it done, just saying that's what I've heard.Originally posted by tornado View Post
I guess those people believe WKU should have defended better or just not put themselves in position to lose the game in the first place.???People say, ???Forget last year', but I want our guys to remember that one, because that will not happen again. We will be much better.??? Geno Ford, 9/22/12Comment
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