Brimah 4th foul

[TheChamps990411]

More like Mr. Pessimistic. I thought I was that but some of you guys on the BY make me look like Mr. Sunshine! LOL!!!

So you believe this team is going to make the tournament this year?

 

[TheChamps990411]

More like Mr. Pessimistic. I thought I was that but some of you guys on the BY make me look like Mr. Sunshine! LOL!!!

So you going to answer my question? Do you think this team will make the tournament?

 

[Kembacity]

The officiating has gotten so atrocious, it just gets worse and worse game after game. It infuriates me to watch games and over and over the other team's bigs set moving picks, literally one after another are all moving picks, whether its turning their body to follow the defender, or putting one leg out extra far as they realize their pick will do nothing, the refs often choose not to call a solid dozen moving picks on other teams, but the moment nolan leans in 2% too far or an offensive player slams his arms into brimahs while going up for a shot, the whistle is immediately blown.

I guess SMU was a bit different, the whistle didn't immediately blow, but it blew a solid second after the ball clanked the rim. That was what made the SMU game even worse from the refs, there were about 15 foul calls so late that the player had already hit the ground and gotten their rebound sometimes. It felt like playing a game of pickup ball with one of those clowns who cries foul after every missed shot, whether there's contact or not.

 

[huskyharry]

Can think of 4 simply atrocious calls off the top of my head, 3 of which the commentators agreed were BAD calls:

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Fact is, we've been getting the short end of the stick from the officials for a majority of the games this year. Brimah especially. Why? I don't know. But it's infuriating.

Why...perhaps because the AAC knows that UCONN is actively working to get out of their league, so the zebras are encouraged to help the other teams, particularly on the road. A sacrificial lamb, so to speak, to help make other teams appear to be more legitimate.

 

[BoatShow]

Refs are not league employees. They're independent contractors

 

[MuchoDogYears]

I pose the question again. Does Brimah get pulled with 1 foul in the first half? Does he get pulled with 2? I say if he's taken out and we start to get scorched ( as we did)
put him back to try to right the ship until the 3rd. Why allow the game to get totally out of hand? One of the keys was him being on the floor as it always is.

One of the things I liked best about KO his first 2 years coaching was that he didn't automatically follow JC's formula of immediately taking a key player out of the game when he got his 2nd, 3rd, or 4th foul. This year, he's coaching not by "feel for how the games going" as he used to claim, but by formula. Leave Brimah in until he fouls out, period. The SMU game turned 180 degrees when Brimah was pulled and Nolan inserted. What IS the point? Sitting Brimah with 1 foul was playing so cautious that it coulodn't help but backfire. You can't tell your players to play aggressively and with fire, and then coach timidly, trying "not to lose" rather than playing to win.

 

[ZenConn]

Didn't Nova go to Final Four with four guard offense?

Aside from Boat, our guards can't shoot, dribble or pass.

 

[Rico444]

This happens so much to Brimah that it's hard to put it on the officials anymore. He needs to learn how to get physical without drawing the whistle.