I put myself through it again...
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:58 pmClearly I have issues. I watched the game again. I know the outcome and just can't accept it. There are a couple of things that really stick out to me upon review:
1. At the 2:30 mark Alford drains a 3. He swung around the baseline on a series of screens; one from Welsh on Nic Moore who was trying to go over top to get back to Alford. Welsh literally throws him the opposite direction. No call. Seriously, the guy held him with his arm and threw him opposite the way he was running to clear space. No call. This was Alford's 7th 3 of the game.
2. They call Welsh for the moving screen at the 1:50 mark correctly. He knocks Moore over.
3. Sterling Brown made a great pass in traffic, and Moreira made a great catch and basket with 1:27 left to go up by 5. Very athletic from Yanick and great vision and execution from Brown.
4. On Alford's 8th 3 at 1:05 of the game he clears Nic Moore out with a forearm that literally sends Moore to the free throw line to clear space. No call. Prior to that, he travels. Alford establishes his left foot as his pivot, then slides it several feet prior to his first dribble hitting the floor. Watch the replay and tell me I'm wrong. With the shove, you can even hear a groan from the announcer as it unfolds (not Lundquist).
5. At the 29 second mark, Sterling Brown fouls. With a 4 point lead, he reached. Let it go, let him shoot, Ryan Manuel was right there. Could've been blocked. Instead we made a mental mistake and put good FT shooter on the line to bring it to a one possession game.
6. The ref who was behind the "goal tended" shot who had the view didn't have the guts to stand up to the ref who made the call and say "hey, I had the angle and there's no way that shot had any chance of going in. He had to think this because he didn't make a goal tending call and yet he allowed a ref with an awful angle to call the play.
All of that being said, we shot 36.4% from the field which appears to have been our second worst shooting performance of the season; only Gonzaga was worse. You don't win games shooting like that. Tough time to have that kind of performance. This was a great team and it was a great season, too bad it ended this way.
1. At the 2:30 mark Alford drains a 3. He swung around the baseline on a series of screens; one from Welsh on Nic Moore who was trying to go over top to get back to Alford. Welsh literally throws him the opposite direction. No call. Seriously, the guy held him with his arm and threw him opposite the way he was running to clear space. No call. This was Alford's 7th 3 of the game.
2. They call Welsh for the moving screen at the 1:50 mark correctly. He knocks Moore over.
3. Sterling Brown made a great pass in traffic, and Moreira made a great catch and basket with 1:27 left to go up by 5. Very athletic from Yanick and great vision and execution from Brown.
4. On Alford's 8th 3 at 1:05 of the game he clears Nic Moore out with a forearm that literally sends Moore to the free throw line to clear space. No call. Prior to that, he travels. Alford establishes his left foot as his pivot, then slides it several feet prior to his first dribble hitting the floor. Watch the replay and tell me I'm wrong. With the shove, you can even hear a groan from the announcer as it unfolds (not Lundquist).
5. At the 29 second mark, Sterling Brown fouls. With a 4 point lead, he reached. Let it go, let him shoot, Ryan Manuel was right there. Could've been blocked. Instead we made a mental mistake and put good FT shooter on the line to bring it to a one possession game.
6. The ref who was behind the "goal tended" shot who had the view didn't have the guts to stand up to the ref who made the call and say "hey, I had the angle and there's no way that shot had any chance of going in. He had to think this because he didn't make a goal tending call and yet he allowed a ref with an awful angle to call the play.
All of that being said, we shot 36.4% from the field which appears to have been our second worst shooting performance of the season; only Gonzaga was worse. You don't win games shooting like that. Tough time to have that kind of performance. This was a great team and it was a great season, too bad it ended this way.