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Hurley wins a close one

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Finally gets the close one everyone's been begging for

FT shooting is still terrible and besides injuries, will be our Achilles heel.

We got jobbed by the refs at home. How often does that happen in the Big East? Dave needs to call Val and sort this garbage out. Official representatives of the conference are hurting the conference and the sanctity of the game.

Not having a backup 5 is going to hurt. Thought Stewart would get more run. Someone will have to step up to have the year we want to have.

Overall not a great showing but a win is a win is a win. Let's start playing more A games so we have more to cheer about
 
It was the phantom calls at key moments of the game - like on Karaban or the last 2 on Samson Johnson - say what?????????? There were no fouls there - those hurt.

And how it every st johns player driving to the hoop got a whistle but we could not buy one with contact as we were going to the rim. Like T Newton, don’t know what he has to do to draw a foul.

But I do agree when we get outside the crooked Big East ref and into properly officiated games, we do tend to shine.
 
HCCForever said:
Cam and others need to be more careful with the ball. Too many lazy passes and not securing the ball. That 15 second stretch where UConn turned it over twice could have cost the game.
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Yes but also no. We routinely, in Big East play, cannot pressure other teams at the level we are being pressured. We get called for the same things other teams get away with. Hurley tried to play the way St Johns played against us during his first two years and everyone ended up in foul trouble because of it.
 
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AntG168 said:
When refs allow our guards to get mugged on the perimeter and assaulted at the rim it takes away our talent and skill advantage. Making games a tough guy “strong man” match. It evens the playing field
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Yea I'll agree with that, would have liked to see Newton get a few more calls especially. Just glad we didn't get screwed with foul trouble, or at least SJU got screwed just as much. The 3rd on Soriano was a bad call
 
Merry Christmas everyone. I gotta go. Since I lost my wife last year I am the Lone Ranger of this household so forget basketball and I need make sure I have gifts for each grandchild by tomorrow morning or I will be declared a negligent grandfather. .
 
Tyler2Rings said:
Tired of ref talk. Bad calls were both ways. Only egregious one I saw was the 4th on Karaban
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What was more egregious was what they didn't call. They flung their bodies at us at will on rebounds and loose balls and only got whistled like 20% of the time. It was the Seattle Seahawks Legion of Boom strategy of "well, they can't call all of them, might as well foul every time."
 
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HooperScooper said:
Well I think we benefitted by the no traveling call on Johnson's 4 steps from the 3 point line for a dunk. I'd have to see it again but that surely had to be traveling.
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Lol my stepdad was saying the same thing but he was ragging me all night (Cuse fan) so I didn't take him seriously
 
Refs were horrible but they were bad for both teams. This conspiracy theory crap is really getting old. They missed a gazillion calls for both teams and called touch fouls when it looked like obvious play on. Gotta accept that bad officiating is just part of the game.
 
Marbles90 said:
Refs were horrible but they were bad for both teams. This conspiracy theory crap is really getting old. They missed a gazillion calls for both teams and called touch fouls when it looked like obvious play on. Gotta accept that bad officiating is just part of the game.
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Hurley literally yelled at the ref, “Do you have a personal problem with me?”. This isn’t a conspiracy. BE refs don’t like Hurley.

Now there were bad calls both ways because they’re genuinely bad at their jobs
 
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Brochacho said:
I can’t believe we didn’t foul up 3
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In my opinion there was still too much time left. Would have been about 8-10 on the clock when we could have safely given the foul without it possibly being a shooting foul. With that much time, if you’re SJU, make both and then pressure the inbounds, and if you don’t force a turnover, foul right away and get another possession, perhaps with a chance to win.

Had Diarra missed the second FT with 5.5 left and we were still up 3, that’s when you give it. But giving the other team two full possessions changes the math.
 
HooperScooper said:
Well I think we benefitted by the no traveling call on Johnson's 4 steps from the 3 point line for a dunk. I'd have to see it again but that surely had to be traveling.
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No doubt about that traveling that wasn't called. Jim Jackson mentioned it on the telecast. That was a gift to UConn when we needed one.
 
Brochacho said:
I can’t believe we didn’t foul up 3
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Some coaches do, some don't. I'm not sure what the analytics say. IIRC Ollie would, but Calhoun didn't. Probably a little too much time in this case anyways.
 
husky429 said:
Some coaches do, some don't. I'm not sure what the analytics say. IIRC Ollie would, but Calhoun didn't. Probably a little too much time in this case anyways.
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Too much time and, with a physicality disadvantage and the refs almost certain to swallow the whistle with the spotlight on them, a risk that we'd just be setting them up for a putback layup to tie instead of making a bad shooting team make a contested 3.
 
HooperScooper said:
Well I think we benefitted by the no traveling call on Johnson's 4 steps from the 3 point line for a dunk. I'd have to see it again but that surely had to be traveling.
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Watch at the 6:15 mark in the highlights thread which was about 10:15 in the second half.
 
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HooperScooper said:
Well I think we benefitted by the no traveling call on Johnson's 4 steps from the 3 point line for a dunk. I'd have to see it again but that surely had to be traveling.
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OMGI was laughing on that one. Of all the calls people say the ref's missed , that would be one. That was so clear Stevie Wonder could of called that. Anyway Samson had fun with it.
 
I don't get this idea that he DOESN'T win close games, emphatically saying DOES NOT.

Maybe less than some coaches, but he does.

Close games I recall: A 5-point win vs providence. Two years ago a 2 OT thriller vs Auburn, an OT vs VCU and St John's, 2 close ones vs Marquette, 2 pt win vs Nova, as well as a 5 point win vs Seton Hall in that same season. In one of his first seasons there were close wins vs Florida, cincy, and Memphis, and that epic vs Houston to end that same season. I remember a close one vs Tulane and so on.
 
Tyler2Rings said:
Tired of ref talk. Bad calls were both ways. Only egregious one I saw was the 4th on Karaban
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Let’s be honest everyone. Are we forgetting that travel non call on SJ for the dunk?
 
I was driving home and missed the first half, but the 2nd half seemed pretty evenly called by the refs. Not to say they did a good job, because a lot of calls were questionable, but the Samson non-travel was a huge non call and there were other fouls on St. John's that seemed tricky tack to non-existent.
 
AntG168 said:
When refs allow our guards to get mugged on the perimeter and assaulted at the rim it takes away our talent and skill advantage. Making games a tough guy “strong man” match. It evens the playing field
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I could not agree more with this statement.

What is it about Tristen and Cam that they can’t buy a call? Especially Tristen? Is is that he has the size advantage? It shouldn't matter but apparently it does

I don’t want any home cooking – I really don’t. But just call a fair game both sides of the ball.
 
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