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Stokes over Cash? I must be watching a different game.
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She's taking Kiah to school all 2nd half
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yup... Stokes is too much of an upright defender to be guarding Catch who loves to to slash to the basket from the top of the circle
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incredible... that Catchings player is awesome, which college did she attend?
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Yes Tennessee. She is one of the best ever to play.incredible... that Catchings player is awesome, which college did she attend?
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yeah she showed it today
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BG is bringing it this game. That is the Griner I've seen all summer. Not bad for a player that I've read has no offense.
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bush league call by the refs.... bad way for the Mercury season to end
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Maya really, really brought it!
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Maya was spectacular and the reason Minnesota won, not the refs, but let me say that there were some really bad fouls called today, the worst of which was that foul called with 1.5 seconds, 70 feet from the basket. If some of these fouls were called in the NBA the refs would be chased out of the building. That ref should never be allowed to call another big game.
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easttexastrash said:
Agreed! Both games had horrible officiating.
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The terrible call reminds me of the ref's near the basket TN call over Baylor with 2 second remaining in the Regionals!
Giving TN two free throws with tie score, Mulkey went crazy!
This was the same idea, tie score, about 1.5 to 2 seconds left, definite NO CALL, Quinn didn't do anything worthy of a call, let them go to overtime and decide winner by players not ref!
WBB, both college and the WNBA have the worst refereeing in any sport! Just horrible! It ruins WBB when you have great players & coaches and incompetence polices each game!
When I coached HS Wrestling, you tell your kids refs don't win or lose matches/games the participants do! But in WBB the refs DO determine who wins, & who loses!
In NY loss to Indiana, and Indiana deserved to win, Stokes was called for a moving screen late in the game when there was at least 10 to 15 moving screens before and none were whistled! Why whistle THAT ONE at that time? Those types of calls are what drives players and coaches insane about the officiating! Mid-4th quarter Catchings ran over defender on the way to the basket, no call, then a touch foul down the other end on the same type of play was called!
One of the reasons is that retired refs that worked with the present refs are now their supervisors! Policing their friends doesn't work!
Giving TN two free throws with tie score, Mulkey went crazy!
This was the same idea, tie score, about 1.5 to 2 seconds left, definite NO CALL, Quinn didn't do anything worthy of a call, let them go to overtime and decide winner by players not ref!
WBB, both college and the WNBA have the worst refereeing in any sport! Just horrible! It ruins WBB when you have great players & coaches and incompetence polices each game!
When I coached HS Wrestling, you tell your kids refs don't win or lose matches/games the participants do! But in WBB the refs DO determine who wins, & who loses!
In NY loss to Indiana, and Indiana deserved to win, Stokes was called for a moving screen late in the game when there was at least 10 to 15 moving screens before and none were whistled! Why whistle THAT ONE at that time? Those types of calls are what drives players and coaches insane about the officiating! Mid-4th quarter Catchings ran over defender on the way to the basket, no call, then a touch foul down the other end on the same type of play was called!
One of the reasons is that retired refs that worked with the present refs are now their supervisors! Policing their friends doesn't work!
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WNBA issues statement on the call in the Lynx/Merc game:
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2015 – Renee Brown, WNBA Chief of Basketball Operations and Player Relations, issued the following statement today regarding the foul call with 1.5 seconds to play in the fourth quarter of the Minnesota Lynx’s 72-71 win over the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday at Talking Stick Resort Arena:
“With 5.4 seconds on the game clock and the game tied at 71-71, Minnesota’s Maya Moore deflected and stole a pass from Phoenix’s Noelle Quinn. Quinn was immediately called for a reach-in foul for contact on Moore. After reviewing postgame video and interviewing last night’s game officials, we have determined a foul should not have been called on Quinn for contact on Moore while Moore was attempting to advance the ball.”
To view the play, click on the following link: http://www.wnba.com/video/final-seconds-of-game-2-of-the-western-conference-finals
BTW, Amy Bonner is the official who called the foul.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2015 – Renee Brown, WNBA Chief of Basketball Operations and Player Relations, issued the following statement today regarding the foul call with 1.5 seconds to play in the fourth quarter of the Minnesota Lynx’s 72-71 win over the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday at Talking Stick Resort Arena:
“With 5.4 seconds on the game clock and the game tied at 71-71, Minnesota’s Maya Moore deflected and stole a pass from Phoenix’s Noelle Quinn. Quinn was immediately called for a reach-in foul for contact on Moore. After reviewing postgame video and interviewing last night’s game officials, we have determined a foul should not have been called on Quinn for contact on Moore while Moore was attempting to advance the ball.”
To view the play, click on the following link: http://www.wnba.com/video/final-seconds-of-game-2-of-the-western-conference-finals
BTW, Amy Bonner is the official who called the foul.
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That's pretty awful. Phoenix's season is over due to a final call that was wrong. Who knows what might have happened in OT? With Bonner gone (she picked up foul #6 with I think 1.5 minutes left), it's unlikely Phx would have won in OT but... you never know what would have happened. At least Lobo was very vocal at the time "that is just a bad call by the ref"...
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