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Message: [QUOTE="willie99, post: 5151641, member: 192"] Jumping in the Fox hole with Chief and all the others that think the fouls and free throw disparity is absurd 1) Some argue we don't drive enough. Neither Reed nor Johnson shoot jump shots, they do nothing but work the paint, their entire game is about the paint. McNeeley and Karaban are both tall players that drive frequently throughout the game. We tend to score more paint points than our opponents. Conclusion, we work the paint, we just don't get the foul calls. 2) We are one of the best teams in the country in rebounding margin. Once again proving our inside presence, and teams with an inside presence tend to get fouled more. Except UConn of course 3) We don't defend trying to steal the ball. Many of our opponents, like St John's, Marquette, Memphis... press all day and reach in all day on every possession, those are the type of teams that tend to foul more, but don't. 4) Our bigs get into foul trouble, not because they're reaching, but because they're jumping out on offensive players or setting picks. Called far more often on us than any other team. Sometimes when they have perfect defensive position they're still called for a foul. 5) We're national leaders in assists because we move and cut. Our opponents are allowed to chuck and grap us without consequence, especially compared to what they're calling in (4) above. 6) In the last minute against Memphis, the refs changed the outcome of the game by calling and over the back that didn't exist. Compounded their mistake by giving Hurley a T. Incompetent officials do that often, call a T after they screwed up. Game changer 7) The next day they don't call an over the back when McNeeley was being held down, another game changer. I'm less upset with this missed call if it wasn't for the horrific call the night before 8) Against X this week, when they overturned an out of bounds call in the closing minute. First, it took them 5 minutes to overturn the call, I think there should be a 60 second rule. If you can't see a conclusive overturn in 60 seconds, the call stands. But the replays showed part of what I'm complaining about, the X player battling for the rebound took out Reed's arm, no call. Then the loose ball was ruled off of us. Seconds later, they overturned a call in our favor and did so in record speed. The incompetent buffoon should have never awarded it to X to begin with. 9) Come March, all these fouls and free throw disparities disappear. It's NOT because we suddenly play differently, it because the games are called more consistently. Some moments are too big for some referees. Sometimes they think they're the game, and they make hero calls. They want to show the world how good they are, when they should just be calling balls and strikes. They shouldn't have rabbit ears, but many do. I've often said some of these calls would be laughed at in sandlot games, where honor matters more. I will defend officials in one regard, some inconsistencies are not their fault. It's created by suits in conference rooms who never played the game at any level trying to legislate utopia by creating new rules [/QUOTE]

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