02-03-2016, 12:27 PM
Judging from the comments, I may be alone on this, but last night's game left me longing wistfully of the days when yelling at [and about] bad reffing was reserved for the games against Tenn or U.Conn or Charli/ASU -- that is, the elite teams -- and not wasted on the bottom feeder games [where it used to be so irrelevant to the almost certain outcome (i.e., a very comfortable win) as to be more a source of amusement than a cause for concern]. I've yelled [or, rather, forcefully expressed my opinion] at my share of refs over the years, but I confess that, deep down, I know there are games when the yelling is due to undeniably bad reffing and then there are games when the yelling is -- truth be told -- due as much to frustration with the way our team is playing as to actual bad reffing. I think last night fell into the latter category.
As for Anigwe -- and, again, I may be alone on this -- she looked to me like the only player on the floor last night who is [even as a freshman] a solid college player with a likely WNBA career ahead of her, notwithstanding the fact that she couldn't get her shots to drop for much of the evening. Otherwise put, if she had been playing for us and not them, I think we would be comparing her performance favorably to a number of our post alums and not so much complaining about the fairness of her moves or her, um ... extended... time in the key.
As for Anigwe -- and, again, I may be alone on this -- she looked to me like the only player on the floor last night who is [even as a freshman] a solid college player with a likely WNBA career ahead of her, notwithstanding the fact that she couldn't get her shots to drop for much of the evening. Otherwise put, if she had been playing for us and not them, I think we would be comparing her performance favorably to a number of our post alums and not so much complaining about the fairness of her moves or her, um ... extended... time in the key.