re: Would Like To Give A Shout To The Refs This Game!

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I have to say that this game was WELL officiated.

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I don't care if Butler shot twice as many FTs at one point. (we caught up at the end of the game when they HAD to foul). This game had a nice flow, and the refs were VERY consistent with their calls. I actually thought we got a few early in our favor, but after Butler threw their 3rd or 4th illegal screen, I paid more attention to it.

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I agree with the flow comment, clearly better than the officiating we've seen elsewhere this year. BUT, they gave way too much "star treatment" to Howard. As said in another thread:

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He traveled twice in the first half, twice fell on our players (although I can see why he wasn't called for a foul when he fell on thorton), hooked our player and WE got called for the foul, got his 4th foul but somehow his teammate got the call, he went to the loose ball with our defender equally but somehow we fouled, ect.

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If they would have called it more evenly around Howard, it would have been a near perfectly called game. Howard's preferential treatment gave a pretty good advantage to Butler though.

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Switching the subject again (lol) but i'll oblige, the reason they are almost even (26 attempts for Butler to 21 for LSU) is b/c of Butler trying to extend the game

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Aside from the final minute, we commited 20 fouls to there 15.

That really isn't THAT bad, especially when you consider Butler had more shots in the paint, I'm sure, and used much more post plays.

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Take North Carolina and the points Saturday, you'll get a free ride on your utility bills for a month...

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you're right. someone call trent and tell him just to pack up and come on back. no need to play the game....

at one time it was butler 33 ft and lSU 12 that's horrible

AGREE!

Games are never officiating perfectly. With that said the refs let the players play the game.

Good post.

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Yep, the refs tried to give it to Butler just like they try to give the game to LSU's opponent every game we play.

I just wonder why we ALWAYS get shafted on the calls?
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NOOOOOOOO. That can't be it. We really do get screwed on the calls all the time.

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I think about 80% of the bitching is more related to how horrible the SEC refs are. The officiating in this game pissed me off because I thought they started off great. Even while Butler was cutting it to 3 in the 1st half, the calls were even. Both sides were bumping all over the place and pushing people around. Then all of a sudden, if we looked at them funny the whistle was blown.

It's one thing to change how you are calling the game, but they only changed it our way. We have players getting killed at the goal without a whistle. We have players catching rebounds and getting called for traveling immediately. All while they are getting fouls on every single touch, and a few times jumping around without any traveling call.

The inconsistency pissed me off. It looked like it was going to be a greatly officiated game and turned into a one-sided affair.

"20 to 15 before the end" Difference here is the few fouls they called on them in the 2nd half (at that point I believe it was 11 on us and 5 on them in the 2nd half?) were shooting fouls, gifting them points. Whereas the fouls on them did not give us the ball at the free throw line.

The better stat is the number of free throws which, taking away the end where they deliberately put us there, was a big disparity.

If you didn't see a problem with the calls Butler was getting for the end of the 1st half and most of the second, then you're either blind, don't care, or too ignorant to notice.

(I don't think it's as much a conspiracy to screw LSU over as it is star treatment as well as forcing an 8/9 game to be closer than it should have been)

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Butler got calls because they consistently got the ball down low and attacked the basket. When your directly under the basket and miss a shot, any little contact will usually draw a foul.

Butler was mugging MT alot, but mostly on the perimeter. Officials will usually give you more leaway out there.

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i'm not sure why this concept seems to be unable to grasp by LSU fans. We are generally on the short end of the FT stat because A)we shoot jump shots mostly, and B)other teams pound us down low b/c our interior defense blows.

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Its all well and good if the refs want to call a foul on all of our crappy attempts at post defense, but you fail to recognize that isn't what anyone is complaining about. I don't see anyone complaining about fouls called against us under Butler's basket.

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i see complaints from the same people everytime anything is called

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And nobody is saying that it was horrendously officiated, just that big white boy got some BS calls.

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Well I thought that the little black boys got their fair share of calls too! I also switched over to ESPN Desportes and I thought the medium brown dudes got shafted! Does anyone agree?