I did like how Kausler pointed out poor officiating this week. A week earlier would have been nice. I did tweet him after his LSU game article letting him know that I thought the very "questionable" officiating should be mentioned.
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I agree we most likely need to win the tourney or at least make the finals and knock off MIZ or UF in the semi's and stay close to the other in the finals. But, Lunardi doesn't see it that way, we are now the first team out. According to him, if we beat OM & UGA 1 tourney win is all we need.
There is a point in most games when the team that is losing (and eventually loses) will foul to stop the clock which will add to the total of fouls for the losing team. This could skew the statistics but not enough to make up the differences pointed out here and in an earlier post that showed the difference in fouls at home and away for Alabama games.
Playing on someone else's homecourt is tough enough with the other team being comfortable with the environment and with the crowd noise against the visiting team. I heard someone recently on the radio who wrote a book after research (so I guess he was an "expert") say that the homecourt advantage for soccer, basketball, and other sports is due more to ref's calls than the environment. If I think hard enough I may be able to remember the name of the book but I'm afraid I'll hurt myself...
I was thinking along the same lines, as Sip, as there should have been no way for Ol' Sis to lose to MSU. Yes, the losing team will foul, at the end, to try to stretch things out. And that does not show in the box score. Not having seen the MSU game, how many other ways could they have won? Officiating had to play a role.
The ironic part of "the losing team fouls at the end" theory is:
1.) LSU was down, by 10, 3+ minutes to go, and all the fouls were on us. Not only did the team that was losing not foul, it was bogus foul calls that let them back in the game.
2.) Some of the worst calls, at UF, at the end, were offensive calls on us. Instead of chances for a 3-point play.
Only way to know that was to have watched the games. Still, something stinks, when so many home teams have such disparate FT advantages.
The ironic part of "the losing team fouls at the end" theory is:
1.) LSU was down, by 10, 3+ minutes to go, and all the fouls were on us. Not only did the team that was losing not foul, it was bogus foul calls that let them back in the game.
2.) Some of the worst calls, at UF, at the end, were offensive calls on us. Instead of chances for a 3-point play.
Only way to know that was to have watched the games. Still, something stinks, when so many home teams have such disparate FT advantages.
Looks to me it's not just Bama fans that see this happening. Do you all think it has any bearing on how good we are in football and the BBall team catches the backlash?? It has to be something.
Wes Rucker had some interesting tweets yesterday during the UT/UGA game. From reading them, I would say the officiating wasn't very good.
The problem is we quite often do not shoot as many free throws as our opponent even when we are the home team. It is more of a problem on the road as well, but it is a problem as a whole when it comes to Bama games. We have zero home court advantage. The last home game against Auburn ended at almost even if not in favor or the visitors.
I would like to agree, but that isn't true.. The numbers at home (during SEC play) of FT's has been skewed in our favor.
BAMA FTM-A OPP FTM-A
16/19 -------- 8/16
8/15 ---------- 7/10
15/21 -------- 6/11
18/25 -------- 11/14
20/33 -------- 11/14
18/33 --------- 5/17
12/16 -------- 11/14
21/27 -------- 10/15
That's why there is such a problem in my opinion. We don't go from being a team who can draw fouls at home, to one who does nothing to draw fouls on the road. Either the officials are playing to the home crowd to the point of needing to have an investigation, or we are getting screwed over on the regular...
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In the earlier season games, I think it was more noticeable, and a lot of those numbers are skewed as the visitors fouled us at the end when they were behind. I know it is nearly impossible to tell but the 1st 10 or 15 minutes each half I have noticed we were either even in fouls or had more than the visitors.
In our five road losses against SEC competition our opponents have shot 124 free throws.
Bama has shot 67.
Wow.
And you gotta remember, it's not just the additional points teams are getting against us.
If we have twice as many fouls we've got key players sitting on the bench in foul trouble while their key players are on the court making plays.
Has to make a big difference.
Bama has shot 67.
Wow.
And you gotta remember, it's not just the additional points teams are getting against us.
If we have twice as many fouls we've got key players sitting on the bench in foul trouble while their key players are on the court making plays.
Has to make a big difference.
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That's a very good point. The moment Gueye goes to the bench, the opposition starts having more success getting to the rim, because Jacobs just can't protect it. I have to add that a large percentage of the whistles MG gets are just flat bogus. He's very big and obvious and he's not very good yet at playing the game of maintaining position without getting noticed.
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I've noticed the touch calls on him lately, but he is very bad at how he sets screens. He could be called for a foul almost every time. He makes plays that are just head scratching sometimes.
He really gets more calls when he's trying to establish position underneath, both on "O" and "D" than on the screens. In fact, I haven't really noticed whistles on the screens, just that they're ineffective...
His remarks are disguising the way he feels, IMO. When a guy jumps into the horseshoe underneath the basket at the last split second and you get called for a charge (twice in a few minutes), there's no way you're getting to the stripe...
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