It's the officiating, stupid

[1morevol]

I know I’ll get roasted for this post. But the numbers don’t lie. And please keep in mind I’m posting this as a bit of tongue-in-cheek. But, looking at the stats from this past season, you can see why the Lady Vols kept showing their frustrations on the court. The Lady Vols had 94 more fouls called against them than their opponents. Conversely, South Carolina had 178 more fouls called against their opponents. In the stats below, the numbers for each team show the numbers of fouls called against them, the second number is the number of fouls called against their opponents and the final number is the disparity of the two numbers. The SEC office should take notice

Team PF-OPF DIF

South Carolina 431-609 +178

LSU 545-669 +124

Vandy 465-557 +92

Ole Miss 604-694 +90

Missouri 479-565 +86

Texas 584-629 +45

Alabama 531-573 +42

Kentucky 504-545 +41

Miss State 490-527 +37

Florida 637-668 +31

Texas A&M 504-493 -11

Georgia 553-519 -34

Auburn 544-485 – 59

Tennessee 578-484 -94

Over a 30 game schedule that's an average of 19.2 fouls per game called on the LVs and 16.1 called on the opponents. I'm not really surprised, considering the LVs were pressing full court, slapping and digging at the ball, trapping, and seldom in good defensive position. My real beef would be the big disparity on plus side for the league's four best teams. Were they more disciplined defenders or are refs influenced by the team's and/or coach's status? Missouri seems to be an outlier in all of this.

 

[glv98]

Over a 30 game schedule that's an average of 19.2 fouls per game called on the LVs and 16.1 called on the opponents. I'm not really surprised, considering the LVs were pressing full court, slapping and digging at the ball, trapping, and seldom in good defensive position. My real beef would be the big disparity on plus side for the league's four best teams. Were they more disciplined defenders or are refs influenced by the team's and/or coach's status. Missouri seems to be an outlier in all of this.

Or simply that better players with better offensive schemes drawn up for them are harder to guard without foulng, thus the disparity.

Again, not as fun as mass conspiracy theories, but sometimes Occam's Razor is really doing the shaving.

 

[1morevol]

Or simply that better players with better offensive schemes drawn up for them are harder to guard without foulng, thus the disparity.

Again, not as fun as mass conspiracy theories, but sometimes Occam's Razor is really doing the shaving.

Absolutely, that too.

 

[KTrain]

Even more than the fake falls I hope every player we get develops the automatic scoop shot on layups. The soft touch Blakes has while shooting in a way that is nearly impossible for defenders to guard and stop, is what makes her most dangerous on drives. It’s a well practiced, brilliant habit for her.

Yep her especially and a few others have that scoop down, Hidalgo is one. It puts a barrier between you & a taller defender & their normal block mode is at the head extended area & the scoop just smoothly goes under attempted blocks and then as the ball goes off the board for 2, she falls for the and1, its great theater. Nobody does it better.

 

[glv98]

U

It’s probably both & when you run this D system which UConn does

But players for the Huskies give their all. Vol players were letting dribblers go up the court faster than their running this should never happened to an athletic player. Think about it if you were running a 40 vs a athlete dribbling you should keep up or probably ahead & squaring up.IMO the players were lazy & or apathetic thus causing them to reach foul in the backcourt from behind easy call & useless fouls also high volume 3 shooting teams shoot less FTs the whole team Lazy play/3s/ and a team that just didn’t care anymore a recipe for a team that took a nosedive.

This is exactly why superior ballhandling and coaching of press breaks beats the system 95% of the time. A well coached team does not dribble up the court against the trap, they pass over it. See any of the games where we were blown out for reference. And no player, even the Sweet Polly Purebreds we’re bringing in now to replace the lazy cancers, can beat the pass up court out of the trap to prevent the easy layup caused by the numbers mismatch.

It’s one of the ways our players this year were set up for failure, and one of several reasons almost no one else uses this system.

 

[lvocd]

U

This is exactly why superior ballhandling and coaching of press breaks beats the system 95% of the time. A well coached team does not dribble up the court against the trap, they pass over it. See any of the games where we were blown out for reference. And no player, even the Sweet Polly Purebreds we’re bringing in now to replace the lazy cancers, can beat the pass up court out of the trap to prevent the easy layup caused by the numbers mismatch.

It’s one of the ways our players this year were set up for failure, and one of several reasons almost no one else uses this system.

Yep.

By the way, who's up for forming a new blues band with me? I've picked out a name already: The Lazy Cancers.

 

[1reVOLver]

Yep.

By the way, who's up for forming a new blues band with me? I've picked out a name already: The Lazy Cancers.

If that doesn’t erm…spread …you could try

 

[Alto1]

I know I’ll get roasted for this post. But the numbers don’t lie. And please keep in mind I’m posting this as a bit of tongue-in-cheek. But, looking at the stats from this past season, you can see why the Lady Vols kept showing their frustrations on the court. The Lady Vols had 94 more fouls called against them than their opponents. Conversely, South Carolina had 178 more fouls called against their opponents. In the stats below, the numbers for each team show the numbers of fouls called against them, the second number is the number of fouls called against their opponents and the final number is the disparity of the two numbers. The SEC office should take notice

Team PF-OPF DIF

South Carolina 431-609 +178

LSU 545-669 +124

Vandy 465-557 +92

Ole Miss 604-694 +90

Missouri 479-565 +86

Texas 584-629 +45

Alabama 531-573 +42

Kentucky 504-545 +41

Miss State 490-527 +37

Florida 637-668 +31

Texas A&M 504-493 -11

Georgia 553-519 -34

Auburn 544-485 – 59

Tennessee 578-484 -94

Could you do a comparison with last year’s team? It would be interesting to see the contrast or possibly similarities.