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Message: [QUOTE="southie, post: 4246208, member: 2527"] Of course it's sour grapes by the author! Why wait until the season is almost over, and [U]after[/U] a third ISU loss to Texas in 2022, to write about this topic? The first 2 losses were by about 20 points each; at least this last loss was by 9 points in OT. This all started by ESPN's Michele Voepel asking Fennelly a question after the loss to Texas on Saturday about "Freedom of movement". I like Voepel, but she does have a bias toward the Kansas and Iowa schools in the Big 12 (as lives in KC, I believe). Fennnelly made it sound like he's been upset about this and talking about it for many years, but I've never seen it referenced until Saturday. Perhaps I just missed it. The author writes: [B][I]Every basketball game turning into a back alley brawl is not good for the game of basketball. It makes games harder to watch and less exciting. Offenses can’t operate properly without trying to match that physicality then if they match that physicality, they’ll watch as the official exuberantly calls an offensive foul.[/I][/B] Get real! "Exuberantly" ? It's pretty much always gonna be an offensive foul if the quicker defensive player beats the slower ISU player to the spot and is set outside the circle under the basket. The author writes: [B][I]Teams like the Iowa State women — which I would describe as a finesse team — are the ones that suffer the consequences, and that is incredibly unfortunate because of how fun they are to watch. Somehow, this finesse team is the one that was called for 17 fouls after halftime despite being the less physical squad — by a considerable margin.[/I][/B] Any game in which ISU doesn't shoot more free throws than their opponent is most likely gonna be a loss. This "finesse" team is also not very athletic. The reason they had so many fouls is they don't have the lateral quickness to keep up with Rori Harmon (shot 9-9 FT's), and the physical strength to rebound against teams with big inside post players. Pat Summitt (R.I.P.) and her physically strong rebounding Lady Vols teams of the past would chew up these finesse Fennelly teams and spit them out as if it were second nature. [/QUOTE]

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