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Post by ben101er on Oct 30, 2013 13:58:08 GMT -5
At the lack of foul shots taken in the game? I have read several articles where other schools have been scrimmaging and there have been 60 fouls called during games, due to the new rules. UL just had a scrimmage where there were dozens of foul shots taken. I wonder if this was by design, from Cal? I was there, and there seemed to be quite a few fouls that weren't called. I just wonder how this might affect this team, if they suddenly get into a game where it is called closely?
I know we have a very deep bench, and a closely called game may help us more than hurt us, but I would have liked to seen it called more like an actual game last night, to get these kids used to actual game conditions.
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Post by truebadoor on Oct 30, 2013 14:46:55 GMT -5
At the lack of foul shots taken in the game? I have read several articles where other schools have been scrimmaging and there have been 60 fouls called during games, due to the new rules. UL just had a scrimmage where there were dozens of foul shots taken. I wonder if this was by design, from Cal? I was there, and there seemed to be quite a few fouls that weren't called. I just wonder how this might affect this team, if they suddenly get into a game where it is called closely? I know we have a very deep bench, and a closely called game may help us more than hurt us, but I would have liked to seen it called more like an actual game last night, to get these kids used to actual game conditions. I don't think our game was called any differently than the others. I think it just speaks to how physical (and actually against the rules) many other teams have been playing for a while now. We don't play like that. We don't foul like that. I have a feeling that if refs call fouls consistently, you'll see that UK will be fouled more often than we foul. We used to get groped all the time and people leaning in and flopping or just being grabbed. If they call all that, teams like Louisville will get a ton of fouls. We don't need to foul. We have a huge length advantage. Small teams play physical because that's their only option against our length, but if that stuff actually gets called, we're going to be sitting pretty. So what I'm saying is I don't think the refs played it loosely with us. I just think we didn't really foul as much as other teams get accustomed to playing "physical." |
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Post by lovethemcatssince66 on Oct 30, 2013 20:12:10 GMT -5
Cal said the refs ,one which is an SEC Ref , came up and told him that they had played within the rules better than anybody had so far that he had seen so far! They were very impressed!
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Post by uktaubetapi on Oct 31, 2013 11:01:54 GMT -5
Our coach does very well for somebody that "just rolls out the basketballs", doesn't he  . |
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Post by Kilgore_Trout on Oct 31, 2013 20:56:13 GMT -5
Arguably, a "young, inexperienced" team may have an easier time playing within the parameters of the new rules enforcement, since they won't have to "unlearn" the physical defensive habits learned over X years in college. As college newbies, they're having to learn how to play college defense for the first time anyway, and they can be taught the correct (new) way.
See how I took that "inexperience" thing and turned it into an advantage?
I've wondered (on another site) if that difference might actually mitigate the experience difference between us and Michigan State since the game is so early in the season, making it somewhat more likely that we can pull that game out. (And thus REALLY get the 40-0 talk rolling...)
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