02-08-2014, 06:08 AM
Not our best game, but I think WSU had a lot to do with that. Chiney is so impressive.
It looked to me like their roster-listed-6'4" player was a couple of inches taller than Chiney. She did win the tip.
I've been biting my tongue all season on just how bad the traveling calls have been all season in all the games I've seen (not just PAC-12). Missing calls when they should be calls, making calls when they shouldn't. But, come on, refs, since when did the triple jump become part of basketball? No way can an official claim they can't see the ball handler skip in toward the goal? Left, left, right. There was one point where they were showing highlights of Galdeira, which included two drives that included three-foot skips with her foot. (At the 1:30 point in the broadcast, with 7:50 left in the game: 1st highlight: Right, Right, Left -- this was the block foul called on Amber at 13:27 in the 2nd; last highlight: Left, Left, Right from 2nd 9:41) Another example is at 8:08 left in the 1st (R, R, L).
Good athletes can make these violations look natural, but that doesn't mean they get to play by different rules. One of the officials should have spotted one of those travels and called it.Â
I didn't appreciate the soccer tackle of Amber by Galdeira being called a foul on Amber (1st 16:22). But what I noticed is that this seemed to be the start of a period in which Amber didn't play very hard. A lot of walking around, and reaching and watching. Tara took her out at 13:44 and Amber was better when she came back in. Ros later commented about this lack of energy.
The officials in this game were Penny Davis, Cheryl Flores, Michelle Russl. These aren't novices. One has refereed for 18 years, one for at least 10, each of those with WNBA & NBA (development or summer league play). One is based in the Washington state area, one in the bay area.
(If you want to get to know these officials by face, I believe it is Cheryl Flores at the 1:00 mark (start of 2nd half) in the broadcast, and I'm guessing it is Michelle Russi at the 1:31 mark)
I ran across an interesting site:
http://www.wbbstate.com/officials/michelle-russi/13
Anybody here a member of that site?
Another interesting page on WNBA refs & some of their tendencies
http://www.swishappeal.com/2013/7/20/454...got-so-far
It looked to me like their roster-listed-6'4" player was a couple of inches taller than Chiney. She did win the tip.
I've been biting my tongue all season on just how bad the traveling calls have been all season in all the games I've seen (not just PAC-12). Missing calls when they should be calls, making calls when they shouldn't. But, come on, refs, since when did the triple jump become part of basketball? No way can an official claim they can't see the ball handler skip in toward the goal? Left, left, right. There was one point where they were showing highlights of Galdeira, which included two drives that included three-foot skips with her foot. (At the 1:30 point in the broadcast, with 7:50 left in the game: 1st highlight: Right, Right, Left -- this was the block foul called on Amber at 13:27 in the 2nd; last highlight: Left, Left, Right from 2nd 9:41) Another example is at 8:08 left in the 1st (R, R, L).
Good athletes can make these violations look natural, but that doesn't mean they get to play by different rules. One of the officials should have spotted one of those travels and called it.Â
I didn't appreciate the soccer tackle of Amber by Galdeira being called a foul on Amber (1st 16:22). But what I noticed is that this seemed to be the start of a period in which Amber didn't play very hard. A lot of walking around, and reaching and watching. Tara took her out at 13:44 and Amber was better when she came back in. Ros later commented about this lack of energy.
The officials in this game were Penny Davis, Cheryl Flores, Michelle Russl. These aren't novices. One has refereed for 18 years, one for at least 10, each of those with WNBA & NBA (development or summer league play). One is based in the Washington state area, one in the bay area.
(If you want to get to know these officials by face, I believe it is Cheryl Flores at the 1:00 mark (start of 2nd half) in the broadcast, and I'm guessing it is Michelle Russi at the 1:31 mark)
I ran across an interesting site:
http://www.wbbstate.com/officials/michelle-russi/13
Anybody here a member of that site?
Another interesting page on WNBA refs & some of their tendencies
http://www.swishappeal.com/2013/7/20/454...got-so-far