Especially when the game's winner moves onto the national championship game and they do not call the double dribble. Hell even brown #2 player for Auburn (who was guarding the guy) was calling double dribble right after dude did it. Pretty damn sad but nothing happens to an official when they screw up. The amount of money they will get from this point forward for calling a final four game and make this boo boo. GeezI love my basketball but man, so many games decided by sloppy officiating. It's really a nuisance for the sport.
Tennessee got robbed but Auburn didn't that was clearly a foul full body contact from the waist down. You can't hit a player like that and not get called.Auburn got robbed just like we did by the refs. Why don't the refs come out before the game begins and just announce who they have decided the winner is? And everyone can go home.
Yeah, I was a little bit of confused by what he was saying, but it does clear up something for me that bothered me for many years is that Magic Johnson in my mind double dribbled every time he went down the floor by palming the ball in one hand. By this definition I suppose he was actually legal.Actually, that’s the whole issue. If you possess the ball with both hands after dribbling you can’t continue to dribble. That is what constitutes a double dribble.
It sure would be a better game if you, and all these other experts, wore the whistle and treated us to perfectly officiated games every game.
when you knock a guy 5 feet from his normal landing spot I think that classifies as a mugging. I think that rules should never change no matter what the game situationRule change needed. No shooting foul called on the last possession except for outright mugging! I THOUGHT that was basically understood.
Heard his interview close after the game. Thought the handled it with class. I know Barnes is doing a really good job, but I wish Bruce was back on the hill.First they completely Blow a double dribble. Then we had a very similar call to the one on LT in the Purdue game. Notice how they haven't interviewed Bruce Pearl yet! Would love to hear his take!
Neither coach, no player or the commentators noticed it. That was an odd ball occurrence that they got wrong. I can see them missing that one.
It was an obvious double dribble and while watching in real time it looked awkward AF. But the foul leading to that double dribble was plain as day tooIn real time didn't it appear the auburn player got in and caused the mishandle? His left arm goes in at the same time as guy lost the ball. No one saw it in real time including the refs. I call bs if a lot of people claim to have caught the double dribble in real time.
T-town: I have a question for you. Not sure when you refereed but are the basketball referees today better trained than 20-30 years ago? As a spectator, it seems like NCAA basketball is far superior now than 30 years ago. The speed of the game is faster, but the refereeing is worse. Is it possible that the referees' abilities aren't keeping up with the players' abilities?