Why all the hatred against Lutz. Weāve seen how bad this team really is this year, and Iād say we looked pretty damn good today. Kudos to Lutz. I take back what I said about him during the Northwestern game earlier this year. He is a good coach. He is a really good coach.
Great game. Great comeback from 11 down. Terrific 2nd half play (I didnāt see the 1st half). Nothing personal against Mitch and Lee because we are all Niners here. Mitch has done some very good things for us. Lee made some great plays in the game. What the heck was Mitch doing at the end of the game!? What about that 10 foot brick off the back board? What about another turnover near midcourt? Lee misses his free throw, doesnāt get a hand in the face on the tying 3 pointer in regulation, turnover, elbow. Wow! Some serious choking.
Very confusing situation with the refs at the end. Iām not sure what to think, but Iāve seen a lot worse this year in other games.
I think we have a heck of a shot in the tourney.
After the first several games of this season, the regular season really never meant much anyway. No chance at top 25, no at large bid in NCAA. After an 18-11 season this season can still be better than last year. Thatās right. We can still win the A-10 tourney. We can still get a bid. We can still win one NCAA game. Thatās all better than last year. We can even still make the Sweet 16, although I donāt think that is likely. Remember losing at USF and Louisville last year?
Compare our last 2 seasons with the last 2 of my other favorite team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were 15-1 last year in the regular season. Barely won 1st playoff game and lost in AFC championship. This year 7-5 at one point, 11-5 regular season, Wild Card, 6th seed and the rest is history.
Had to take some time away from the game before posting. Now, several hours later I have had time to cool down. Just a few questions:
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How in the world can you throw an elbow at an opposing player TWICE (I know some say the first was unintentional but I donāt think so)? Say something but donāt do the ONLY thing that will give GW a chance to win. Words cannot describe how dumb that was.
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On the flip side, will this finally fire us up (and Lee) to play like we did today all the time. I mean, where has this team been? or, will we just come out flat and lose to somebody who is .500 in the conference?
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I do think the refs screwed up at the end but we should have NEVER given the officials an opportunity to help GW.
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Wonder what Bobby said to the team after the game?
Horrible way to lose but hopefully it will have a positive side to it. Hopefully Lee will learn (donāt see how he couldnāt), hopefully this will fire up the team. I guess weāll see. Hard to be a niners fan sometimes, well maybe more than sometimes but go niners anyway.
Duke guy pushes and then punches carolina guy in face, he falls to the ground, no call, does not change outcome of the game, good no call.
leemire got caught on the second elbow ... never throw a cheap shot twice!
When Hall is choking you with your own jersey what do you do? It should have been at worst an intentional on Hall but the refs didnāt see it. They apparently missed the Hall elbow that I could clearly see from the ESPN angle and the fact that Hall continued to try to choke him on his jersey. Those things burn when tugged like that and are almost like rope. It should have been a double technical. Hall clearly was baiting Lee. Those refs are IDIOTS!
This was a painful loss.I am wonder how the team will respond?
itās all complete bs, iām so sick i can barely write about it, i waited til now so i could give myself a chance to be reasonable, and not just be reactionary, and this is what i have come up withā¦
chalotte won, twice!
we should have won in regulation, but we gave them an uncontested three, and they sank itā¦we got the ball back with 6.5 seconds, and turn it over on the inbounds, we get fouled twice on that possesion but the refs look the other way!!
funny a no call on gw!!
we go to overtime skip toā¦the āaltercationā as espn is calling itā¦looking at it over and over again, hall fouled (they say he fould deāangelo??) hall grabs leemires jersey, and lee turns around, which is the first time he catches him with the elbow, accidental, not a big deal (especially if they are not calling the jersey hold!! which they are saying they didnāt since hallās foul was on alexander) then after the first elbow, hall still holding leeās jersey, pulls lee down, and lee turns around and gives hime the elbow again!!
now, lee messes upā¦clearly he should have looked the other way, fine, i admit that, but what were the refs doing!!!:
letting a game get rough like this, by never calling anything all game!! then expecting the players in a physical game to be nice!!
why are they calling a foul based on a review? BS, espn āUnbeknownst to anyone, lead official Fran Connolly had called a technical foul on Goldwire.ā again BS!! when has a tech been called that noone realized, not even for the 5 minutes they were āreviewing the monitorā?!?!?!
then the refs mae the dumbest call, they give lee the t, give hall a foul that was against DA and not lee??!!
gah, maybe iām still sick from all this, but this ridiculuous!!!
iām extremely proud of how charlotte played today, and i only hope that next weekend we tear this excuse of a decent basketball conference and their āofficialsā a new one!!! go to h*ll A10!!!
why are they calling a foul based on a review? BS, espn "Unbeknownst to anyone, lead official Fran Connolly had called a technical foul on Goldwire." again BS!! when has a tech been called that noone realized, not even for the 5 minutes they were "reviewing the monitor"?!?!?!
EXACTLY, if it had already been called, what the hell were they reviewing for 5 minutes?!?!
[QUOTE=ninermac;158964]EXACTLY, if it had already been called, what the hell were they reviewing for 5 minutes?!?![/QUOTE]
Simply because A-10 is a . . . bush league.
[QUOTE=UNCCShannon;158787]Bobby did the P.C. thing that most coaches do. He didnāt place the blame and talked about how the team played, and how disappointing this loss was. The usual. You could tell in his voice that he didnāt want to talk at the moment and actually at the beginning he didnāt really have the voice to talk.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, running out on the court and screaming at the refs was really PC.
[QUOTE=ninerrbl;158943]This was a typical loss.I am wonder how the team will respond?[/QUOTE]
Fixed.
Yeah, running out on the court and screaming at the refs was really PC.
Lutz was running on the court to get Goldwire off the floor, not to argue with the refs.
Good points.
If Hall was truly called for the foul,
- Why was DA shooting
- Why was DA shooting dead ball foul shots
- Why was the foul not considered intentional
I will except Leemireās T as a sickening, unfortunate event. However, the refs have some 'splaining to do, and if Judy doesnāt press the issue, Iām going to be more mad at her than Leemire.
I want us to go into the Tournament thinking āWe were wronged.ā and I want the A10 supporting that --------------> i.e. message to the refs.
[QUOTE=NinerNation Inc.;158997]Lutz was running on the court to get Goldwire off the floor, not to argue with the refs.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, okay. He was on the court for a good long time after Leemire sat down.
Yeah, okay. He was on the court for a good long time after Leemire sat down.
so was GWs coach.