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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3433482, member: 6927"] On this topic, I actually went back and rewatched the first half of the Oregon-ASU game because I figured that I must have missed something. The torches-and-pitchforks mob must have seen something I didn't, right? But for the life of me, I really couldn't identify anything that was so beyond the pale. Oregon's lack of "flow" and scoring output early on was largely due to some missed open shots, including layups, where there was definitely no foul committed. That combined with the usual ASU stingy defense led to a very low-scoring quarter and half. As far as I could tell, Graves didn't even start complaining to the refs until the middle of the 2nd quarter. There was one play where I thought a foul *could* have been called on a rebound, and Graves seemed to be upset a foul wasn't called, but it was far from the most obvious missed call I've ever seen. There was another play in transition by Minyon Moore where she *might* have been fouled by Bejedi, but really it was a 50/50/50 call between a charge or a block or a no-call, and I don't think the no-call was an egregious decision. (And for that matter, there were also instances where a foul *could* have been called on Oregon but wasn't.) Also, you can't say the refs were calling "nothing." They called a fair number of fouls, and more on ASU than on Oregon -- which is to be expected because Oregon was able to penetrate with drives and passes better than ASU. I can't help but get the feeling that Rueck and Graves are just feeling the heat from teams that have beaten them lately and they're now using this little campaign to gain competitive advantage, looking ahead to the Pac-12 tournament. It was way too much of a coincidence that both of them made their statements to the media almost simultaneously. I'm still with [USER=9403]@TheFarmFan[/USER] -- I have never seen an ASU player even approach the despicable behavior of Ogunbowale, which Rueck should be all too familiar with because it was memorably directed at one of his players last year. Maybe Rueck and Graves can petition the Pac-12 powers-that-be to have ASU and UA replaced with Texas Tech and Arkansas, if all they want is to play teams that make no serious effort at defense. [/QUOTE]

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