What I just watched…

[typeviic]

When our cutters are knocked to the floor, and when our center gets the ball and has his arms literally pulled down and the ball slapped away, your offense looks bad because you are left with an outside shot only. How many times did Loyer, Newman, or Smith make a cut toward the basket and go sliding across the end line after a violent shove or hip check? I counted about 4 easily, and there were probably many more that just disrupted their movement, which should have been a foul. It was frustrating to our kids and very unfair that the refs did not enforce the rules. It makes for ugly basketball, and allows lesser skilled teams to beat better teams through rough play.

Correct. See wisconsin "basketball" and Dick Bennett

 

[mathboy]

If the team collectively believes that the refs have a conspiracy to collectively screw Purdue, then poor 3 pt shooting is the least of their worries.

Nobody said there was a conspiracy, for heavens sake. We are talking about the extremely poor referee work in MULTIPLE games. Did you watch the Indiana-NWU game? Indiana was mauled by NWU and the refs swallowed their whistles. When your offense is disrupted by illegal hip checks, moving screens, and arm slaps, what you get at the end is a desperation three-point chuck. All you are doing is misusing the stats and misunderstanding what is happening in these games.

 

[bonefish1]

Nobody said there was a conspiracy, for heavens sake. We are talking about the extremely poor referee work in MULTIPLE games. Did you watch the Indiana-NWU game? Indiana was mauled by NWU and the refs swallowed their whistles. When your offense is disrupted by illegal hip checks, moving screens, and arm slaps, what you get at the end is a desperation three-point chuck. All you are doing is misusing the stats and misunderstanding what is happening in these games.

But again, go back and look at how many possessions resulted in a "bad" shot due to guys not being able to get a good look, because presumably, the defense was fouling them. There might be a handful.
I mean, that's kind of the goal of the defense anyway is to prevent good looks.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

But again, go back and look at how many possessions resulted in a "bad" shot due to guys not being able to get a good look, because presumably, the defense was fouling them. There might be a handful.
I mean, that's kind of the goal of the defense anyway is to prevent good looks.

Wrong. Way more than a handful.

 

[mathboy]

But again, go back and look at how many possessions resulted in a "bad" shot due to guys not being able to get a good look, because presumably, the defense was fouling them. There might be a handful.
I mean, that's kind of the goal of the defense anyway is to prevent good looks.

It was more than "prevent good looks". They stopped dump offs at the basket to cutting players by fouling them, often hard with hip checks and moving screens. Most of those dives would have resulted in a high percentage shot or a foul. Let's just say there were 6 of them. That's easily 12 points. The 'and ones' accounting for the possible missed dunk/layup at the basket. What was the score difference?

It just doesn't take that much to change the outcome of a basketball game.