Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted
As was correctly said, the first half was a hockey game and the second half was ballet.   “Letting them play” in the first half was an advantage for the aggressive, physical coogs.  That Houston defense not regulated by whistles made it pretty damn tough on us.  All credit to Houston for their style of play and their taking advantage of the refs allowing a hackathon.
When they flipped the switch at halftime and decided to call everything - I think Florida was a little better at adjusting quicker to the new normal.  it would’ve been a better game if the calls had been consistent both halves. They weren’t.

Florida was losing their mind for a few minutes to start the 2nd half. Shoulder checks, holds. It got real chippy and the refs shut it down for both teams.
  • Replies 1.6k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted
The real problem is the refs inserted themselves into the game so hard. After letting physical play happen the whole first half, they called some bogus fouls on Florida then some make up calls on Houston later on. Instead of balancing shit out they should just call the game the same way the whole game, and call it the same both ways. 

I thought so too. Then they go super slo mo and each time it revealed a blatant foul, including the fouls on Florida to start. Refs did a good job, at least in the 2nd half. i missed the first half.
  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted (edited)

So stop fouling?

 

 

Edit: I already said I thought the refs got too involved in the second half, but after several early fouls, Florida seemed to understand it and stop giving the refs anything to call, and Houston did not.  It's also pretty interesting to hear Coog fans bitching about refs after the absolute gift they got against Duke late.  It comes and it goes.

 

Edited by TexArcher
  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
Posted
56 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


I thought so too. Then they go super slo mo and each time it revealed a blatant foul, including the fouls on Florida to start. Refs did a good job, at least in the 2nd half. i missed the first half.

the issue is the fouls not called the same way on houston at the beginning of the half.  

I do have to laugh at basketball in general.  guys are hitting the deck every time down the court.  even in the 80's/90's it took a pretty damn good shot to send a guy to the floor(Kurt Rambis says Hi).  now you breathe on a guy shooting a jumper or driving to the bucket and he's hitting the floor.   the hook and hold happens on almost every rebound but is only called when a guy flails his arms or they hit the deck.  The hit to the head has every guy blinking his eyes like he just had sand thrown into it, rubbing his face like he just got slapped by his bitch across the jaw, or holding his head like he got jabbed by Ali.

it is getting close to soccer so I'm blaming the Euros.  It is funny watching the refs trying to control the game.  I'm not sure how Pancho did it for so long. Kudos to him.  The women's game is arguably worse but it is slower so might be easier to see things real time better.

Posted
1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Doug Sirmons was in the game as one of the refs, and he’s the biggest “look at me” ref in D1 men’s right now. #1 by far. 

Yes, I’ve been reffing in games where the foul count is lopsided (for whatever reason) and to get the game back to reality, you don’t go looking for fouls but rather you look for what is illegal vs. legal. In my opinion, the 1st half was called pretty well because they were just letting them play; however, when you decide to just let them play, it will inevitably bring out frustrations by one or more players because they fully believe they are getting fouled and you’re not calling it. The longer this goes, the more the game escalates and you as the ref have to get ahold of the game because that’s your job. The best way to do that? Call more fouls, which then goes against what you allowed the 1st half. 

My issue with the Florida folks on this board (and to an extent the Texas people) is there’s never a “hey, the other team was called for a foul and yeah we get to shoot FTs, but that really wasn’t a foul. We got away with that” from those fans. Florida fans were bitching here when it was a quick 5-0 foul count in the 2nd half but when Houston got called for nearly 11 straight fouls, it was crickets. 

The above is also one of the reasons I retired early from officiating. One of my pet peeves with co-officials was the inability to admit you were wrong. Instead, too many refs tried to justify why they were correct. Absolutely hated that. 

it was crickets from me because I turned it off because I stopped caring

Even in a win for Florida, it’s refball bullshit one way or the other. Not very fun to watch. 

Posted (edited)
57 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

UH was in the penalty with 14 mins left.

Florida was there with like 17 minutes left. They got there first.

Edited by Helobious
  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 1
  • Haha 2
Posted
15 hours ago, msucolt45 said:


Come on man. Just rooting for them as a Texas team. I will say that I’ll be the last to Chant SEC, SEC, SEC, and etc, as if not us then F them.

Hook’em!!!

Image

  • Like 1
  • Haha 3
  • Drool 1
Posted
2 hours ago, MrX said:

Reffing aside, Houston’s half court offense was awful down the stretch, and Florida started making buckets so they were in the half court a bunch. They didn’t even get up a shot in their last three possessions of the game. 

I think the main difference was how Florida adjusted on defense. In the first half, they were sagging to defend the basket and were physically dominated giving up multiple second chance attempts besides leaving the lanes and 3point line free. In the second half, they switched to guarding the 3-point line and making UH’s bigs play away from the basket and play with their backs to the basket. Houston couldn’t do anything besides taking floaters or shooting 3s with hands in their faces. 

Posted
1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

So stop fouling?

 

 

Edit: I already said I thought the refs got too involved in the second half, but after several early fouls, Florida seemed to understand it and stop giving the refs anything to call, and Houston did not.  It's also pretty interesting to hear Coog fans bitching about refs after the absolute gift they got against Duke late.  It comes and it goes.

 

They also got three extra possessions against Purdue to even get out of the Sweet 16. Two terrible out of bounds calls that were obviously wrong live but before 2 minutes so not reviewable and then Uzan got away with a blatant pushoff to even set up the final out of bounds play. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
image.thumb.jpeg.424f2715bfed94e1ce53cb34edc5e598.jpeg

I did hit the “like” while at work, but that’s really reaching.

Nothing like eating Blue Bell ice cream during the 10:00 news with a stack of papers put in your lap with a red pen on top. “Please help so I can go to bed.”

Hook’em!!!
Posted

She doesn’t let me do it if I’ve been drinking on a FB weekend, because I’d just pass out/randomly give 90-95-100s without even looking at them. She’d tell me afterwards that some didn’t even complete the back page, so I’d say neither did I.

Hook’em!!!

  • Haha 1
Posted
4 hours ago, gatormarc said:

t0b3s1o9cote1.png?width=861&auto=webp&s=

Also, since 2000

UCONN - 5
Florida - 3
Duke - 3
Carolina - 3
Kansas - 2
Villanova - 2


Baylor
Louisville 
Michigan State
Kentucky
Syracuse
Maryland
Virginia 
COVID

20 more years of success and we might sneak into Blue Blood territory in a sport in which I never thought we would have a shot. 

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



×
×
  • Create New...