OrngeJuiceJones
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It’s not just this past game.Again... 38 FTs to 16 is ridiculous.
Common theme is a dominant big man who goes up strong around the basket, we do not have that.It’s not just this past game.
See the Purdue game. And the Kansas game.
It gets really annoying when you start looking at the stats from football.
There needs to be an official inquiry from the athletic department or the university of Tennessee. I’m not even joking. What is going on is unacceptable and it’s not a coincidence. Needs to be stopped right now.
That’s all Bilas talks about when he calls a UT game. He whined about it last year and hasn’t shut up about it.I wonder if the refs perception, in general, is colored by the reputation we have for being a physical team. I don’t know if officials go into games thinking about a team’s style or not, but I imagine it’s difficult for them to be completely unbiased if they’ve constantly heard(or seen) about how physical we have been over the years.
We "over help" when it is not necessary - leaving guys wide open. It has been a recurring issue with Barnes' teams from the get go. So hard to watch...That is obviously a very lopsided Ft count BUT the refs didn't leave guys wide open the whole first half. Effort by the team was TERRIBLE out of the gate and UNC took advantage of it. Looked like the team didn't have their legs under them from the start...after a week off. Could've been a famous Barnes running the team to death after a loss.
Exactly this. Multiple things can be true, we can play like crap, play a style not conducive to getting fouls called AND the official can suck.It's been mentioned in this thread, and I've mentioned it for a couple years, but we rely on outside shooting. You aren't going to draw many fouls playing offense like we do. We just take shots that don't generate contact most often. We aren't a pound it in the paint offense. We aren't a drive the ball to the basket offense.
On the other side, we play a physical style of defense that is at risk of foul calls, particularly in the paint where our lack of size gets exposed, especially against the schedule we've played so far. Edey, Dickinson, and Bacot are three of the best big men in the country, and they, by themselves combined to shoot 35 FTs against us.
We've also played from behind in the last three games and we're forced to foul at the end of games to extend them. That has contributed to the discrepancy.
All that being said, we do seem to...for whatever reason...get the ire of officials on the ticky-tack fouls. Two examples...Santi's 3rd foul (I think), last night, 35' from the basket after he got his pocket picked and went for the loose ball...that's an atrocious call. He did nothing. I'm not even sure he made contact other than brushing the guy as they both went for the ball. Mashack's foul at the end of the 1st half...Cormac kicks his feet out to get fouled and the officials bite on it. Just another awful call and on TV, it was so obvious. Those are just two examples, and there are many more already in this young season where I just look at officials and ask myself, "what did you see there?".
We made our own bed in the 1st half last night, and just got beat by three good teams, straight up, but those three teams shooting 108 combined FTs in three games is ridiculous. By comparison, we shot 54, exactly half as many. And most of those came in the Purdue foulapalooza. I guess I'm fine accepting that our style is not conducive to fouls going in our favor, but I'm getting really sick and tired of the BS touch fouls we have to see getting called where there is little to no contact, or worse, officials just assume or anticipate foul call against us.
What is going on? Are you suggesting that even outside of the SEC, officials have it in for Tennessee? There's some grand plan?It’s not just this past game.
See the Purdue game. And the Kansas game.
It gets really annoying when you start looking at the stats from football.
There needs to be an official inquiry from the athletic department or the university of Tennessee. I’m not even joking. What is going on is unacceptable and it’s not a coincidence. Needs to be stopped right now.
Yes! I really hoped this team would be different offensively. It is still early but we have seen enough to know that scoring droughts will still be there and we can't rely on DK to shoot us out of all of them.We "over help" when it is not necessary - leaving guys wide open. It has been a recurring issue with Barnes' teams from the get go. So hard to watch...