DCWildcat
12-01-2005, 06:09 PM
Last night, my school (Davidson College, yall might have heard of it) played its biggest rivalry game of the year vs. UNC Charlotte (an A-10 school). We lost in double overtime due to some of the worst officiating I've ever seen. Now I'm a former coach, so I know the rules pretty well, but there are a few things Charlotte did that I'm not sure about, but I think should have been dealt with differently (these weren't the calls that cost us the game, those were clear cut, but these definately swung in charlotte favor):
1) Charlotte's last two possessions in regulation resulted in Davidson fouling off the ball. Charlotte was in the double bonus, and thus shot two free throws. Both times, the Charlotte player who was fouled (and would have taken the the free throw) complained of injury and was subbed out, replaced by the team's best free throw shooter. Each time, the shooter hit both free throws, and Charlotte immediately subbed the "injured" player back in. I don't know how this situation should be handled, but I feel like the coach deserved a technical for that obvious violation of, at the very least, the ethics of basketball.
2) At the end of the first overtime, we were down by 3 with about 8 seconds left, with possession. Our shooting guard found a hole and drove, nailing a tough layup and gettinga blocking callso that we were only down 1. So he has to hit his 1 free throw to tie the game with 5 seconds left. Emotions were pretty high in the arena, and the players lined up in their rebounding positions. Before the ref could bounce our guard the ball, a Charlotte player left his position on the block, walked up to our guard (impeding the ref's ability to give him the ball), bumped him in the chest, and talked about 10 seconds worth of trash to him. The Charlotte player didn't seem to be saying anything profane our getting aggressive, but, nevertheless, that's something you just can't do. The Charlotte player returned to his position in the block, unpunished by the refs. I thought that warranted a technical, but I've never seen it happen before on a floor, so I don't know what a standard ruling is there.
What do y'all think?
1) Charlotte's last two possessions in regulation resulted in Davidson fouling off the ball. Charlotte was in the double bonus, and thus shot two free throws. Both times, the Charlotte player who was fouled (and would have taken the the free throw) complained of injury and was subbed out, replaced by the team's best free throw shooter. Each time, the shooter hit both free throws, and Charlotte immediately subbed the "injured" player back in. I don't know how this situation should be handled, but I feel like the coach deserved a technical for that obvious violation of, at the very least, the ethics of basketball.
2) At the end of the first overtime, we were down by 3 with about 8 seconds left, with possession. Our shooting guard found a hole and drove, nailing a tough layup and gettinga blocking callso that we were only down 1. So he has to hit his 1 free throw to tie the game with 5 seconds left. Emotions were pretty high in the arena, and the players lined up in their rebounding positions. Before the ref could bounce our guard the ball, a Charlotte player left his position on the block, walked up to our guard (impeding the ref's ability to give him the ball), bumped him in the chest, and talked about 10 seconds worth of trash to him. The Charlotte player didn't seem to be saying anything profane our getting aggressive, but, nevertheless, that's something you just can't do. The Charlotte player returned to his position in the block, unpunished by the refs. I thought that warranted a technical, but I've never seen it happen before on a floor, so I don't know what a standard ruling is there.
What do y'all think?