by Cazzzmo » Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:08 pm
first off, it's been awhile... where the heck has everybody gone? very little action on this site anymore or am i looking in the wrong topic??
anyway, I have to chime in here on something.... title game officiating.... now, understand, i'm the whitest guy you'll ever meet, but I gotta say that I thought FourWinds got the shaft by the refs for most of the night. In the end it was their own fault they didn't pull it out with the t/o's and missed buckets but, dang, those 3 refs were a real joke if you ask me. lane violation with 2 minutes left in the state title game? give me a break!! that's a ref wanting to leave his mark. the other two dudes are complete pretty-boy refs... also there to ''be the show''. They didn't blow a single whistle in the first three minutes of the game 'cause they were too worried about what their hair looked like on TV! complete freakin' joke! (and, yes, I know Perry O.... just about spit-out my popcorn when I saw he was doing the title game). The FourWinds kids got hacked all night long with very few whistles going their way and the big guy for Milnor was over the back all night and rarely (never?) got called for it. I saw the same thing in the semis in the sense that these refs weren't familiar with FWs style of play and were constantly late and out of position to make calls. to reiterate, they failed to blow the whistle on about the first six possessions of the game and then were terribly inconsistent after that. I'd say if you replayed that game 10 more times, FW wins nine of them... it just wasn't their night but the refs sure didn't make it any easier. (fyi, i've been attending state tourneys for over 30 years...)