The House of Blue

You're delusional

Officals did not cost uk this game. They got out physicaled,pushed around. Alabama wanted it more.

I admit. We played bad in second half.

But the officials called a different game in the second half.

Defense isn't hard when you don't have to worry about a foul being called. They held and body checked wiltjer the entire second half.

While Goodwin was out of control at times they mugged him at the bucket no less than 4 times with no calls.

Then add the goal tend call with the two awful out of bounds calls in the last. 3 minutes and you have the officials swinging the game to the tide.
It's not all about specific calls. It's how they call the game. In the first half they called it tight. Bama couldn't body up. In the second? They allowed everything to go.

If we ever learn to shoot foul shots we might win a ballgame. They act like foul shots don't mean anything. They also drive to the basket and throw up too many prayers. The way they shoot they need to attend church more often to have those prayers answered.

The refs definitely let Bama play rough but Goodwin being stupid is our biggest problem right now. I'm ready for him to get left on the bench and let somebody with a brain in their head play for a while. How much worse could it be with Hood on the floor? At least he will pass the ball, and won't lower his head and go 1 on 5 the whole game. Goodwin is nothing but a disgrace. I will be glad when he leaves cause I am sick of watching him cost us games.

The officials did make some bad calls, but if we make foul shots we still win. Also they needed to go Kyle more often. Kyle and Mayes are our best shooters.

The goal tend call was right. It was a goal tend because Noel hit the ball when it started coming down and not because it hit the glass like the announcers were trying to say. The two out of bounds calls were horrible but the first one didn't hurt us because they missed the shot and UK got the rebound.

Goodwin's thing is though he has absolutely no intention of passing the ball to an open man even if the help comes to the slasher. Come hell or high water he is gonna throw it toward the rim, and flop on the floor like a dead fish. He is selfish, and that's all there is to it IMO.

I've seen calls determine outcomes of games. I've seen refs have awful games. The refs in this game did not make us hit 1 FG over 10 minutes. The refs weren't blowing their whistles in the middle of our FT's. The refs weren't making Poythress play like a B___ again. The refs weren't making Harrow play the worst game he has played in a while. The refs didn't make Goodwin flop to the floor for the 110th - 124th times this year without being touched. The refs didn't let Cal's ego get in the way and him refuse to play zone for the first time in his career when Alabama clearly could not shoot and we clearly could not stop the drive.

Just stop it with all the bullshit. This team is not very good. Period. End of discussion. As much as we all hope they can pull it together, this team is not going anywhere but the NIT short of an SEC tourney title, and I do not see that happening unless someone upsets Florida.

Just take this season with a grain of salt and let it be. Unless the players go against Cal's wishes, or the NBA GM's lose their minds, I will happily take one of these seasons every few years to trade it for a shot at a title like we should have next year! There is no one on this team not named Nerlens Noel that will be a lottery pick. I have not heard of any of these players having such dire financial family needs that tells me they will go to the NBA draft even if told they would be a 2nd round pick. Poythress is too soft. Goodwin is too soft. Harrow is as well, though at least he looks like he should be soft. WCS is the wild card but I don't see him being a 1st round pick. If those 4, or 3 of these players, come back then all I can say is look out next year.

Until then, stop trying to make excuses for this mediocre team.

Honestly refs never do a good job so we can't blame it on something that you know is bad. We played pretty good in the first half but forgot how to play in the second half.

Dan Dakich was complaining today during the Wisconsin game about how close games have been called and how that has brought down scoring. He's a moron.

It's the complete opposite. Look at the Big Ten his own conference for god's sake. They may have the best teams, but they have the most boring basketball. Same goes for teams like UT (Big Ten player as coach) and Bama.

First and foremost the college game needs to adopt the hand check and guard friendly rules of the NBA. That would make the college game much more enjoyable and exciting.

As for this game leave it alone. We lost on our volition, not because the refs sucked even though they did. The college game referees suck and have for years. What is new? That isn't an excuse. Change the damn rules and make those fools implement them.

I don't know. There were 3 really bad calls that went against us down the stretch. But it ultimately only made about a 3 point difference.

One of the out of bounds calls they didn't score anyways. And another on the goal tend we got called for a foul and they probably would have hit free throws.

Ofcourse the block call on Poythress was pretty iffy.

All of that and I still kind of feel like we gave it away with bad decisions on offense and poor rebounding late. Missed free throws too. Kyle missing the front end of a 1 and 1 trip that could have given us back the lead was huge.

Goodwin and Harrow killed us tonight. Worst game Harrows played in over a month. I knew Goodwin was going to be a roller coaster ride when we signed him. Hopefully they get it together in time to still get a decent seed.

I'm becoming less optimistic however. But there's still a lot of basketball left.