Latest results are a pair of wins the week before Christmas, and a split at a tournament last weekend. We lost in the first round by four (gave away a five-point lead with five minutes left), but came back with a fun come-from-behind win in overtime of the consolation game. We were down by eight with six minutes to go and rallied back. We had a chance to win at the buzzer, but instead went 5-for-5 in OT to win by eight. One of my two senior stars scored her 1,000th point during the OT, and she is at 999 rebounds! (The other is at 915 points, so hopefully we get to do it again in 2-3 weeks.) We are up to 8-3.
The part that interests you guys:
I'd say three out of four good official performances in the two games. Two good ones in the consolation. In the first round, the one rarely called anything. Sure, could be coincidence, but I'd guess that the one guy made 80% of the foul calls. The guy who made all the calls is a good official, but watching the tape, he missed a couple key ones that went against us. (I probably don't rewind and play the calls that go our way 3 or 4 times to decide he missed one in our favor!
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One play that bugged me. The one with no pea in his whistle was T while we were on defense, and we got a steal and went in for a layup. The defender pushed my shooter on the hip during the shot, obvious to me on the bench and on the tape. But on the tape I could see that the T becoming L didn't really run too hard, and ended up being straightlined on the play. Should this really be happening to varsity level officials? Either sprint and get there or stop short and give yourself an angle on the play, right?