Appreciate your post very much as a 30+ year football official but you are p*ssing into a hurricane trying to speak rational truth about officiating to this crowd, I took a shot at it years ago but just ended up blocking/reporting some of the worst offenders, staying away from the game threads (mostly), and capitulating to the sad reality that these are largely fans with no interest in anything but blaming the refs whenever they can.
Silver lining: our two “elite” shooters Hummer & Will are a combined 18% from three this month, and were ranked 24th and still in a pretty good spot.
I've just started this year. My ire for officials has nearly completely depleted. It's ridiculously difficult. If you ever complain about calls or blame a game on officials, you should go ref a 5th grade girls game just to see how hard it is even at that level sometimes.
Coleman has been our best stretch four so far. We need a stretch four who can actually shoot.
This is a fair take, however there is something to the other side of this argument. Coaches are coaching players to push the officials to make calls. The style of play that has taken over basketball is basically hunting for calls. I personally never much cared for TSJ's fly into people move. It makes sense in current day basketball, but I don't think its good for the game.
Humrichous is shooting 35% from 3 despite going 4 for 21 in the last 4 games. It’s a slump and he’ll bounce back. I’m not worried about this shooting. I think his defense will improve too. He’s pretty good at talking on the court but it’s so freaking frustrating seeing how he gets tossed back so easily when he gets a little off balance.
Very good point. I also think officials should be trained not to call some of those blatant attempts. There are certain types of plays that fall into that category and are not really basketball plays. One of the obvious ones is when the offensive player has used his dribble and then leaps forward into the defensive player on a jump shot that really isn't a shot at all but just an obvious attempt to draw a foul. Should be a no-call. I'm not talking about a driving shot attempt or even a shot fake that gets a defender off his feet. I'm talking about those plays where the defender is actually in good position and the offensive player creates the contact on a jump shot. While it's not enough contact to call a charge, it also should not be a foul on the defender.
Also a fair take. The thing is as an example, every year there is some "point of emphasis" that the NCAA puts out. What "normally" happens is we see this point of emphasis stressed and officiated early season. But then as the season progresses, officials (and the leagues that hire them) fall back into the same inconsistent application of the emphasized rule and the rule book as a whole. Then, the following season it's all but forgotten for the new "point of emphasis."
... 90 minutes after a win; 90 seconds after a loss.
... it's more like 6 hours.
Even more than this, I think it should be an offensive foul.
We miss Coleman. Coleman misses us. Too bad it was time to move on but he would be that stretch guy with better defense at the 4.
These two are bound to find their stroke soon. They're both gifted shooters according to BU. When that time comes, watch out!
I'd like to see Will drive to the basketball more. I'd like to think he's "strong" enough to do that. I think he does have the ability to finish or get fouled and shoot more FTs.
completely agree.
