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James Breeding

FfldCntyFan said:
Where I tip my hat to Michigan, and where (taking everything into account) I truly bethe game was decided was with their free throw shooting.

I believe with just under four minutes remaining they had a seven point lead and we had the ball. They were (IIRC) 21-22 from the free throw line at that point. If they had been for example 18-22 (still an excellent percentage) the game would have had an entirely different feel as the final minutes were winding down. They do warrant credit for shooting free throws the way our 2014 team did.
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I give Michigan credit as well. They were a good team and they took advantage of the way the game was being officiated. That's exactly what they should do.
 
You know the entire Big East tournament they didn’t show any replays of fouls which drove me nuts - because it looked like a lot of calls went agains. Just let me see the replay then I’ll admit I’m wrong if I was. It’s almost like the NCAA told the TV networks not to show too many replays of fouls. There was a big one on Reed in the championship game that They never showed. They went right to a commercial then when they came back, they still didn’t show it. The whole big east tourney was like that — Almost like they know how bad the reffing is, so won’t show replay cuz it will get fans upset.
 
DRBackup said:
WTF are you talking about ? That's not how Vegas works and never has. They move the line based on which team is getting all the action so it ends up split evenly. Vegas won't get wrecked, no matter who wins.
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That's one strategy for the casinos -- take equal bets on each side and collect the spread, which gives them a profit of about 0.5% of the amount bet.

But there's another strategy, which is to set the line lopsidedly on one side so that money comes in mainly on one side, and then to rig the outcome so that that side loses. Let's say 80% comes in one side, 20% on the other. Then if you arrange for the 20% to win and the 80% to lose, you make 60%.

Let's say $10 billion is bet. Making 0.5% is a $50 million profit. Making 60% is a $6 billion profit.

In this case, the large pro-Michigan spread (-6.5), the much-publicized Yaxel injury, and UConn's record of winning in the tourney including beating Duke this year, ensured that most money would be on UConn.

The thespian acts by Cadeau and Morez Johnson Jr make no sense of you're trying to win at basketball. But if you know that acting is going be rewarded by the refs, then it makes a lot of sense to take yourself out of the play with a theater performance.
 
The narrative on NCAA tourney officiating was that the performance of the officials is reviewed after each round and only the best performers “advance” to the next round, incentivizing officials to do as good a job as possible. So how the hell would someone as notoriously abysmal as Breeding make it all the way to the FF? He’s one of the top 9-12 refs in the tourney? That defies all credibility
 
Fishy said:
Here’s the problem - we have eyes.

You can’t just say well, UConn averages this many fouls and Michigan averages this many and the numbers are similar so the officiating was fine. That’s way too simple-minded.

You can actually, with your eyes, go see video of what was called and not called and come away with the consensus opinion that nearly everyone who watched the game came to - there was something rotten in Indy.
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The worst line about teams is “they defend without fouling”. No. They defend without getting called for fouls. Every offensive line in football holds. Some get called for it more than others.
 
connVA said:
The narrative on NCAA tourney officiating was that the performance of the officials is reviewed after each round and only the best performers “advance” to the next round, incentivizing officials to do as good a job as possible. So how the hell would someone as notoriously abysmal as Breeding make it all the way to the FF? He’s one of the top 9-12 refs in the tourney? That defies all credibility
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The bottom line is that the ncaa loses all credibility when these games are not officiated by neutral conference officials particularly none that have a negative history with a head coach. An SEC, ACC, or Big 12 crew should have done that game full stop.
 
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Just rewatched the game to check out Cadeau. The hack of Reed should have been his 3rd foul. At 16:20 of the second half he lost Solo coming around a screen so he two arm shoved him off the 3 pt line. That should have been his 4th foul. The two arm shove of Silas at 5:25 should have fouled him out of the game. Solo should have sold it better maybe by going down but then again even when our guys got knocked down they didn't call the fouls. I highly recommend not rewatching the game I'm going to have to double up on my blood pressure medicine!!
 
TheHorde said:
The worst line about teams is “they defend without fouling”. No. They defend without getting called for fouls. Every offensive line in football holds. Some get called for it more than others.
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Bingo.

St. John’s….excellent at playing D without fouling. Creighton, excellent at playing D without fouling.

Michigan….excellent at taking what Breeding and Anderson let them get away with.
 
CL82 said:
I give Michigan credit as well. They were a good team and they took advantage of the way the game was being officiated. That's exactly what they should do.
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Screw that. Blatantly shoving a guy from behind isn't taking advantage of the way it is being called. Shoving and flopping isn't exactly what they should do. that punk Cadeau just plays dirty and the refs turned a blind eye. It's pathetic.
 
JustbrewitMan said:
These sets & plays have probably been run well over 10,000 times by this staff and players in practices and games. They are all logged on video and in playbooks.

This coaching staff basically lives and breathes this stuff almost 24/7 together.

I’m going to trust facts and say our offense will still be beautiful next year even with Luke shipping up to Boston.
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When Hurley was on JJ Redick's pod he was going through plays they took from specific European teams and also outlining philosophy on how they layered the offense. While Murray was obviously a huge influence on shitfting Hurley's offensive philosophy it's not like Hurley wasn't collabing with him on how to design the offense, I don't see a shift happening with Murray no longer here.
 
The NCCA sells a fan a ticket to a tournament game. Ticket is a form of contract. The implicit and probably explicite guarantee is that the fan will view a fair honest competition, that the NCAA will not have its thumb on the outcome. The NCAA broke that guarantee when they assigned an official from The Big East Conference with a adversarial history with both the University and it's head coach, Dan Hurley. It's my personal, certainly not legal, that NCAA broke its contract with every single UCONN fan that paid to see a game that was never going to be objectively officiated. SUE the NCAA if you feel cheated.
 
Fishy said:
Bingo.

St. John’s….excellent at playing D without fouling. Creighton, excellent at playing D without fouling.

Michigan….excellent at taking what Breeding and Anderson let them get away with.
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Agreed-And BTW-All three HCs of the teams you mentioned will begin their PR on how physical UConn is leading up to their games with us days before in media-chats with refs pre-game during layups-and during the games. Its so predictable its laughable. Playing the victim. Dusty is still talking about our physicality in media interviews 3 days after the NC game with absolutely no mention of his team's blatant physicality/fouling vs us. I will give Michigan credit on one point-They know how to sell fouls to the refs and their flopping talents are next level.
 
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MrDownunder said:
The NCCA sells a fan a ticket to a tournament game. Ticket is a form of contract. The implicit and probably explicite guarantee is that the fan will view a fair honest competition, that the NCAA will not have its thumb on the outcome. The NCAA broke that guarantee when they assigned an official from The Big East Conference with a adversarial history with both the University and it's head coach, Dan Hurley. It's my personal, certainly not legal, that NCAA broke its contract with every single UCONN fan that paid to see a game that was never going to be objectively officiated. SUE the NCAA if you feel cheated.
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@businesslawyer… do any pro bono?
 
UConnRock said:


2nd clip of Cadeau hacking Reed is the most blatant “no call” of the night
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Easily the worst - a ref would have to be blind not to see it. The two pushes in the back are next. When a rebounder goes flying to the ground not once, but twice, and you don’t call, something is going on.

I’m hearing a lot of, UConn game in physical with a reputation as a fouling team. How does that excuse those three calls?
 
Fishy said:
Here’s the problem - we have eyes.

You can’t just say well, UConn averages this many fouls and Michigan averages this many and the numbers are similar so the officiating was fine. That’s way too simple-minded.

You can actually, with your eyes, go see video of what was called and not called and come away with the consensus opinion that nearly everyone who watched the game came to - there was something rotten in Indy.
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How he ignores that is unreal. What is he, blind like Breeding?
 
TheShot1990 said:
I can live with the loss because we just needed to hit a few more 3's and didn't. But Cadeau is a dirty, flopping little whiny punk who's bad behavior was rewarded by the refs. They even reviewed a play for a flagrant where he threw Silas on the ground and didn't even call a basic foul. And rewarding him 3 FTs at the beginning of the game for jumping into Silas while throwing the ball up in the air was a crime. All those little things matter in a low scoring game this big.

The fact that May not only tolerates but supports this behavior tells me all I need to know about May.
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techincially they can only call flagrants in review of a play not common foul. The argument should have been a two hand shove is flagrant.
 
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MrDownunder said:
The NCCA sells a fan a ticket to a tournament game. Ticket is a form of contract. The implicit and probably explicite guarantee is that the fan will view a fair honest competition, that the NCAA will not have its thumb on the outcome. The NCAA broke that guarantee when they assigned an official from The Big East Conference with a adversarial history with both the University and it's head coach, Dan Hurley. It's my personal, certainly not legal, that NCAA broke its contract with every single UCONN fan that paid to see a game that was never going to be objectively officiated. SUE the NCAA if you feel cheated.
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uconnfan68 said:
@businesslawyer… do any pro bono?
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I'll donate to this cause

It's really shameful that there's no reprimand.
 
Fishy said:
Bingo.

St. John’s….excellent at playing D without fouling. Creighton, excellent at playing D without fouling.

Michigan….excellent at taking what Breeding and Anderson let them get away with.
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I would not put St. John's and Creighton in the same category here.

St. John's gets away with murder in their games against us. They're coached accordingly, knowing this in advance.

Michigan did well to adapt to the fact that they could do whatever they want against us too.
 
Pitino will do whatever it takes to win but McDermott like Hurley wanted his guys to play clean basketball. I’ve heard enough postgame interviews with May to realize he’s much more of an “anything it takes to win” guy. Seems like a jackwagon to me but like Pitino he can coach- regardless of the tactics he uses- so he’s going to win and win a lot.
 
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