03-06-2021, 08:38 AM
"toughness" = Refs allowing anything but light (or not) brushes of the shooting hand?
To me, the AZ - UCLA game was an embarrassment to the PAC-12, not because of the slow offensive start, but because of the absolutely poor officiating. Clearly the refs are conspiring (with the front office?) to turn at least that game into Maul Ball. This is not using the rules of NCAA Basketball. This is not the game that has been played for the last 4 months.
If Stanford has to play under Maul Ball rules, there is no telling how bad it can be.
For instance, take a 2 minute stretch in the 4th quarter.
There was a bogus blocking call at 4Q 8:36. The defender has both feet in one spot just outside the protected zone, when the offensive player is at the foul line until contact. The defender doesn't shift her body to the side at all.
At 4Q 7:56, the UCLA player dribbles across the lane at a diagonal. Her defender is moving with her, but between her & the basket, not in front of her. The defender's knee knocks the offensive player's right foot, causing her to plunge head first to the floor. I think it is clearly blocking, but I can imagine an official not calling it. But the travesty is that they call the out of bounds against the defensive team. No defender was within 3' of the ball. Either it is a foul or the ball was out on the offense.
How about the knee to the neck at 4Q 7:01? Not intentional, but a blatant foul before the whistle blew. (Notice the scratch down the her entire forearm as she's being pulled up from the floor. I wonder when that happened.) The officials didn't call that. (Once they miss it live, they can't call it from replay unless it was intentional. I didn't notice a make-up call either.)
(Damn Slng and/or PAC-12! I dutifully used Sling's "Record Series" to record the tournament. But I have no Stanford games (nor Az-UCLA). For instance, one recording says "Stanford vs Oregon State", recorded at 5PM on Friday for 3 hours. But Sling recorded it on the AZ channel, where they ran WSwim instead (despite what was on the guide during that time). I've got more of this tourney where the program recorded is not the program in the schedule. Currently, the Sling schedule does not list the AZ-UCLA game between now and Monday midnight. Also their AirTV adapter has to be power cycled once a day or so because it wedges with different kinds of failures. At the start of the 3rd quarter in Stanford-OSU, it went into spinny-mode on the channel I was watching - even after a reboot - but worked on my laptop.)
To me, the AZ - UCLA game was an embarrassment to the PAC-12, not because of the slow offensive start, but because of the absolutely poor officiating. Clearly the refs are conspiring (with the front office?) to turn at least that game into Maul Ball. This is not using the rules of NCAA Basketball. This is not the game that has been played for the last 4 months.
If Stanford has to play under Maul Ball rules, there is no telling how bad it can be.
For instance, take a 2 minute stretch in the 4th quarter.
There was a bogus blocking call at 4Q 8:36. The defender has both feet in one spot just outside the protected zone, when the offensive player is at the foul line until contact. The defender doesn't shift her body to the side at all.
At 4Q 7:56, the UCLA player dribbles across the lane at a diagonal. Her defender is moving with her, but between her & the basket, not in front of her. The defender's knee knocks the offensive player's right foot, causing her to plunge head first to the floor. I think it is clearly blocking, but I can imagine an official not calling it. But the travesty is that they call the out of bounds against the defensive team. No defender was within 3' of the ball. Either it is a foul or the ball was out on the offense.
How about the knee to the neck at 4Q 7:01? Not intentional, but a blatant foul before the whistle blew. (Notice the scratch down the her entire forearm as she's being pulled up from the floor. I wonder when that happened.) The officials didn't call that. (Once they miss it live, they can't call it from replay unless it was intentional. I didn't notice a make-up call either.)
(Damn Slng and/or PAC-12! I dutifully used Sling's "Record Series" to record the tournament. But I have no Stanford games (nor Az-UCLA). For instance, one recording says "Stanford vs Oregon State", recorded at 5PM on Friday for 3 hours. But Sling recorded it on the AZ channel, where they ran WSwim instead (despite what was on the guide during that time). I've got more of this tourney where the program recorded is not the program in the schedule. Currently, the Sling schedule does not list the AZ-UCLA game between now and Monday midnight. Also their AirTV adapter has to be power cycled once a day or so because it wedges with different kinds of failures. At the start of the 3rd quarter in Stanford-OSU, it went into spinny-mode on the channel I was watching - even after a reboot - but worked on my laptop.)