Bye bye!

[All_Heart]

Originally Posted by TriggerMN

Neither. Bruce Hicks is the Asian-looking thin guy, about 6-foot-4. I personally hope he makes the final four this year; I think he's deserving.

This was the first time I've seen Bruce work. Some observations: He called a shot clock violation when the ball hit the rim. I thought he prematurely blew his whistle and would call it inadvertant but he proceeded to pat his head. This was at the beginning of the game.

I thought his count was really really slow. I guess this is just a pet peeve when I see this. I counted one of his counts and he was at 5 when the clock ticked off 9. I think that officials need to be more accurate with their count.

Another thing I noticed was that Bruce Hicks and David Hall were not changing their hand on their closely guarded counts. A couple of times I saw them start a 5 sec count when the player was holding the ball, then the player started dribbling and they kept their count going for 3 more seconds without changing hands. Is this standard in some parts or did they just forget to change hands?

The foul call at the 2 minute mark on Duke's guard to put Thomas on the line was a tough call but I didn't have the angle he had.

These are just some observations that I noticed from my couch at home with the chance to watch the play in slow motion ten times