The 1 second in-bound after the SU player jumped on Butler grabbed the ball and stepped on the baseline, the constant travelling by devendorf shuffling his feet EVERYWHERE!, and the last play where they call a foul on Jerel trying to get around the moving pick ( I just never think you call a foul like that on the last play), along with all the over-the-backs and the big elbow by 21 that I thought was pretty obvious (may not have been #21, I forgot). Really? No one is pissed at the officiating? Ive never really felt liked blaming the refs beyond just the "they're letting the other team just hack and clobber us," but this game got me livid. Instead everyone here is complaining about Buzz and timeouts. Buzz is a rookie coach and doesn't like to bitch, but I would have loved to see him go off one of the refs yesterday
I sit close to the floor, and I thought it was bad...
we helped the refs by counting out the continuous 3 second violations, but to no avail.
whaddya gonna do.
you'd hope to get more calls at home-
but perhaps buzz is just paying his dues.
I thought the refs have owned Buzz the last couple weeks, but when the guys on the other bench are named Calhoun, Pitino, and Boeheim, where you're playing isn't going to matter much.
Did they re-show Jerel's "foul" on Devendorf? I think it's kind of ridiculous to feign an injury, delay the game for 2 minutes and get no punishment.
I watched the game again last night at home and the refs were not nearly as bad as I thought they were. That said they did blow some obvious calls. The arm to the face on Butler's tip in, no-call charge Lazar took on Flynn to get to 69-70 and the elbow already mentioned on Lazar to name a few.
Really what do we expect when a HOF coach is against a first year guy. In time Buzz will get the calls.
Bottom line if we take care of the ball the final 2 minutes and get off good shots we win.
Yes, Buzz is earning his stripes with the zebras.
Syracuse's bigs would always keep a foot in the lane - never fully got out and the refs let them get away with that all day. That was the most obvious from my seat way up over the scoreboard!
Come on guys.
The refs were bad but they were consistently bad. MU got away with more than a few travels, fouls, no fouls etc. Otule was in the game for about 20 seconds and he probably spent 19 of it in the paint.
The only thing that really bothered me was the 1 second shot clock call. I still don't understand how that wasn't a change in possession. That said, the refs didn't cost us the game by any stretch.
Those guys were awful on travels (probably in MUs favor). I know one time on a tip back the Syracuse guy got from outside the 3 point line to the edge of the lane before he dribbled. On the MU side Lazer travels alot. He better watch that, the next set of refs may not be playing NBA rules
I thought the charging call on McNeal at the end of regulation was poor. The announcers thought he stepped out of bounds but I heard a highlight show say McNeal was called for the foul? Any enlightenment on the call?
Quote from: 77fan88warrior on March 08, 2009, 10:11:44 PM
I thought the charging call on McNeal at the end of regulation was poor. The announcers thought he stepped out of bounds but I heard a highlight show say McNeal was called for the foul? Any enlightenment on the call?
I saw very clearly from the student section that McNeal stepped out of bounds, but according to the play by play, he was called for an offensive foul, which, if true, would've been BS. Regardless, though, it was a deserved turnover.
Watch nearly any game objectively and you will see inconsistent officiating. I had my family over for Sunday dinner and we had Southern Illinois/Northern Iowa on in the background. Watched it for 5 minutes, saw 5 questionable calls that temporarily shifted momentum. When I was little, my dad always told me that officiating didn't decide games. He and I were watching this game and I reminded him of that. He laughed and said he was right back then but wrong now. Officiating dictates games.
Refs were even handed, though not great. The 1 second call was the right call, since possession is not established until the opponent has the ball with both feet inbounds. There was an obvious foul on the play, however, as Matthews was kicked and hit by the Syracuse player prior to the ball getting away. I thought they might compromise when watching the replay and say, "Well, the Syracuse guy did not have legal possession but we missed him clobbering the MU player, let's just give them the 35 seconds," the same way when a ball goes out of bounds off of a player who was being fouled they often don't call the foul but give it to the team the ball went off of.
Anyway, we had no business running out the clock on that possession and putting ourselves in that position. There was too much time left in the game to go into a quasi-stall, especially since we had all the momentum. The things you can control, like that, are the things that Buzz needs to focus on.
To be honest, I thought this was one of the better officiated games that we've had in a while. Reason I say it was better was that I felt that there were bad calls both ways overall. Sure there were some definite misses and such by the crew, but overall I thought they were OK in comparison to the couple of games prior to Saturday's.
The only call that I thought was really bad was when Lazar got called for his chest getting in the way of #21's thrown elbow under the basket. And after that we went on our run to catch back up in regulation, so maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have happen.