Final Four Open Thread
A game that looked like a snoozer . . . is suddenly not.
Gonzaga - South Carolina is tied 65-65 at 7:39.
Gonzaga's gonna get beat by 15 if this continues.
Love that floor...Sparty is slappin their TVs right now
I would not want to have to defend Gonzaga inside. Two 7 footers, with Karnowski at 300 lbs.
Timely comment
Dude is a beast.
Yeah, a game that I didn't think would be much is now....a game, and a good one.
It likely won't happen now, but part of me was hoping for a Battle Of The Carolinas just to see what those two fanbases / states would come up with.
Thats 2 bullshit charge calls on the Zags now
Fuck Carolina
Refs gonna ref.
That's what you come up with after like a 10 min. time out?
Wouldn't surprise me if he actually had some kind of personal contract with UA and the pin was a part of it.
I DESPISE that rule. You should have the choice to decline the free throws. You are the "injured" party.
it's a bedrock part of how the game is played. A foul is a foul.
And your "amendment" makes no sense. They could just foul you again. And then you would be making the exact same decision with less time on the clock.
I'm not sure that would work effectively, because if SC were to decline the shots they would still have to inbound and create a 3-point shot with fewer than 4 seconds left to play. Honestly, they just took too long without finding a real shot opportunity and it burned them.
A rule that would affect this sort of calculus would be to give the aggrieved party the option to take one shot and get the ball, but that would kill late-game comebacks and that's not something basketball folks are likely to do.
Perhaps give a make-it-keep-it opion? You make the shot, you either get your second free throw or the ball? That would be used less but it would fix situations like these.
eh?
All in the game.
Well, if it needed to be changed, it probably would have been changed by now. The current paradigm of late-game comeback management (3-point line, shot clock) has existed at all levels of basketball for over 30 years. And while I think late-game fouling is clunky and takes away from the beauty of the sport, it has become integral to it.
And the stuff that REALLY kills late-game momentum isn't even the fouls. It is excessive times out and especially those stupid 5-minute video reviews, which were a problem both today and last night in that Mississippi State-UConn game.
Plus I stopped disliking late-game fouling so much after Michigan used it to beat Kansas in 2013.
the three of them, just going over that call endlessly was absurd.
As to the endgame, I love the strategy of it and think it's an important part of coaching.
I don't think they should have missed the second FT, but the foul was perfectly timed. I believe in fouling under 4.5 seconds, and not fouling over 4.5.
I think he should have made it though, and you go for an instant turnover/immediate foul with the full 3.5 on the clock. But with 3.5, they've put you over a barrel. It's enough time to get something off if they miss, but not much time.
on Collins, which is one of the worst calls I have seen in any tournament, ever.
That guy is a real problem. It's not okay.
There had been some trash talk leading up to the game by some of the SC players, saying Gonzaga were "really nervous."
Some of the Gonzaga players talked in the postgame presser about how that kinda irked them and they used it as motivation.
Man, once Gonzaga blew that 14 point lead, I thought they were done.
I'm going to go watch that semi-final against 'cuse now.
TV Ted doing 2nd Semi...Viewer Discretion Is Advised.
Over/under on minutes it takes for Teddy's first overemphatic call?
Both teams bigs will be in foul trouble 3 minutes in.
it's so fucked.
He fucking sucks.
It's an outrage that he gets to purvey his bullshit on this big a stage.
You better hurry . . .
40% of Oregon's starters are from Canada. Interesting.
Did TV Teddy call that foul 20 seconds in?
NCAA politics..Same goes for Higgins..
I would seriously start my first defensive possesion in a 1-3-1 zone just to muck up Raftery's routine.
He mumbles it so fast he could convince you that he said "one-three-one".
Every Oregon name is seared into my brain - Bell, Brooks, Prichard, Dorsey, Enis - I still can't believe we were just a few inches away from winning that game.
traumatic
Oregon is sloppy
Couple nervous teams so far.
and we were just one successful box out away from beating them.
But Bell, Dorsey, and Ennis are like boogeymen for me. I've been seeing those guys in my damn nightmares.
Whats with the microphones echoing about half the time. Makes it sound like they are broadcasting over the stadium loud speakers.