re: It's NOT the officiating ....

You might say that our offense was terrible but it makes it harder for you to play well when the other team has wayyyyy more free throw attempts than you. It really brings down the team's morale. Not to mention knocking down a couple ft's can definitely help to get the offense going. I'm not saying officiating was why we lost but it definitely hurt our chances.

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and you can go back and read my first post on why i think that

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I did, and predictably it had zero bearing on the question of whether the officials impacted the outcome of the game. If one team's inside game destroys the other team, that does not itself suggest either way on the officiating issue. It could simply be that the one team's inside players made superior, clean plays all game long that dominated the opposing team's players. It could be that the one team's inside players used hard contact and fouls to prevent the other team from scoring inside and to make scoring moves on offense while the other team was consistently whistled for fouls whenever there was any contact. It could be some of both. But the mere fact (or observation) that one team's inside game destroyed the other team has no bearing on whether the officiating impacted the outcome of the game. If you want to make your commentary relevant to the officiating question, then describe how you observed MSU's inside play destroying us without there being any unbalanced calling by the refs. You could start by describing how each of Varnado's 7 blocks were achieved without legal contact, and then perhaps move on to how his two-hand checking and grabbing of Chris Johnson's jersey should not have been a foul, when all of our contact on Varnado was worthy of the foul calls. Stuff like that makes relevant commentary. "We shot poorly" and "they destroyed us inside", etc., does not. Those are all things that can themselves be impacted by the officiating, so their mere existence has not probative value.

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but why is it so hard to understand that teams who go to the goal more get to the FT line more than teams like LSU who shoot nothing but jump shots in the half court set?

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penetrate

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I rarely ever notice the refs

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Really? That's strange, because they stopped play over 50 times in the game today. I'd think you'd notice them doing that fairly regularly. You might want to get that checked out.

MSU is a jump shot team too, and we drove to the goal just as much as they did if not more

The sad and scary part of this thread is that King Joey actually subscribes to the theory that there is some kind of conspiracy against LSU sports teams carried out by the officials. I've read his posts before and he really believes there are subversive elements in our society that conspire to make sure LSU loses games - not just basketball, but football and baseball, also. Of course, he never offers any sound evidence for how and why this occurs and why LSU sports teams are singled out.

Link? Are you reading this thread or just picking out the SoCal fan to respond to? Maybe you can find someone to explain to you what King Joey is saying.

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It's NOT the officiating ....

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dude...

Strange how I never hear the winners whining about how terrible the officiating was...

Anyone who knows anything about basketball will tell you that players can never blame the refs for a loss. However, the refereeing in the game today was about as bad as you will see on this level of competition. The SEC really should consider finding better, younger, quicker officals who can keep up with the game better.