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Originally posted by Oz Referee
Well, at half time of the game last night (my time) I was all set to get online and start laughing about how funny it was going to be for the USA to not make it through the preliminary rounds.....but they finally got their act together. As my younger brother put it, they finally realised that to beat a zone you have to play like a team and pass the ball around and stuff 
As far as the refereeing goes - wasn't overly impressed...couple of very suspect foul calls. Especially on Duncan and some of the ofensive calls were VERY odd.
What did you guys think?
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I was talking to a D-1 buddy of mine today at a tournament and somebody else asked him about the reffing at the Olympics. He said, "Two-person officiating for the best athletes in the world? Those poor guys were probably just trying to survive." Somebody asked him about officials being "in the quicksand" (reffing from the middle of the key) and he said, "yeah, not technically correct but again you've got two officials trying to get good angles, which is impossible with such big and wide players in 2-person, so the mechanics kind of went out the window when they went into survival mode." He also made the point that we have no idea what the officials were told by the governing body who hired them and assigned them in regards to player and coach decorum. Maybe they were told, "don't give a technical foul unless you are assaulted."
Z