Oden needs to get Paid for This!
 

There is no point in Greg Oden playing anymore for free when typical plays like this all season long never get called.

http://www.dispatch.com/sites/dispat...7-osu-x/06.jpg


But let him commit a hard foul and two days in the electric chair are not enough.

I hope gets 7 billion $ to escape the hell of being a big man.

FAnboy alert.

I am a registered baseball and softball official and have been for 35 years.

If you disagree with my post then explain the non-call and the willingness of most on here to base their view of an intentional foul on TV pictures.

And exactly how are we supposed to KNOW this was a no-call? And even if it was, why do you come here and try to make out like this happens all the time? Have you never missed a call? You must be ****ing perfect! Congratulations!

BTW, I hope he stays around for four years. Ohio State would be close to unstoppable if Oden were to go pro. He's SLOWWWWWWWWWWW. I'd take Durant over Oden in a NY minute!

Then take Durant.

The play in the picture was a no call just seconds before the Oden foul no one was shy about calling an intentional foul.

I repeat the question,,,,if you are going to call an intentional foul based on pictures, then explain how this one was missed?

It seems you have no aversion to hanging the game offiicials out to dry when it serves your bias.

And I repeat, if a big man has to put up with this consistently then no one should begrudge him making a choice to get paid for it.

Go away fanboy, nobody's interested.

Must had hit a nerve.

And I take it that you know all this from vast experience as a basketball official, and your vast knowledge of the basketball rule book?

Go umpire a softball game somewhere, fanboy. This site is for real officials, not whiny fanboy jerks like you.

Shoo, shoo......

Every March --same old, same old......

Ad hominems instead of answers?

This is an official's forum. If you aren't an official, then you are a guest in their "house." You will be treated seriously and with respect if you give respect. If you give none, you get none.

You don't want answers. You want to whine, moan, cry and b!tch..

Piss off, fanboy.

Please don't take that personally though.:)

Since you are such a great official in softball and baseball, I am sure I can watch a game of yours and show a pitch you have completely missed or a tag play that you got wrong.

For one you cannot take a snapshot of anything and say that is what it is. For all we know Oden could have got his arm free or was the person that put his arm behind himself as he was flailing for the ball.

Games are not called by pictures. But you are a long time umpire and you should know that.

Peace

There's a difference, for one, between a snapshot of one moment in time and a motion picture. It even gets better when we add sound, known in the olden days as "talkies."
Most of us don't give a rat's a$$ whether that college from Columbus wins any more games in this tournament. In general, I'm a Big Ten fan, so I tend to root for them against other conferences. This play, however, seems to have been an intentional foul that the officials missed. No one's hanging them out to dry; hell, they're probably looking at the replay saying the same thing.

I'm surprised it took this long for the first fanboy to show up.

Except of course when you want them to be.

Pretty sure in the picture the Xavier #1 player is holding Oden's left arm down. You'd better stick to SB and BSB, cuz if you want to call that one on Oden, you'd really be a bad BB official!:)

He's crying because he thinks Oden gets abused regularly.

Really?

You mean Oden got fouled and there was no call?

Wow.

That has happened a mere 786 times this year.

A rarity I am sure.

Chances are better that the hold was overlooked - would anyone really see that kind of hold "as it appears in the still" and not call it? I don't think passing on that call would make anyone a legacy of being a good official. It's horrible to post a snapshot and try to make a case, though - maybe they both had their arms interlocked before this happened! A lot goes on that no doubt is classified as 'give and take' so no advantage gained and I'm sure any official who saw that, and the entire play from that point of view, would have sound reasoning behind not making the call.

Like it will get any better in the NBA. Go back and look at the tape and you can see that the Lead was straight-lined on this call - at the moment that picture was most likely taken, Center had a player between him and that matchup and no doubt had other things to look at. Posting the still shot was lousy. :mad:

From an official's standpoint, it's impossible to call anything from that photograph. You simply have no idea who is holding who, if any. Fanboys don't understand that.

Oden should thank all the officials that have allowed him to play physical and the defenders to be physical with him. That's how it's gonna be a the next level. ;)

Ad hominem, hominy grits, who gives a ****

Another one on my ignore list.

I loved the player control call on Oden's swim move in the first half, BTW.

Which was my only point. In the NBA he gets paid handsomely to get abused.


And it is interesting to see how many here will dismiss a photograph in one case, yet embrace another one, or a youtube video, to underscore their feelings.
Very few camera angles tell the story from the official's perspective and none of them, with the exceptions of timing and line calls, can ever be believed as proving or disproving the call on the floor or on the field.

Hey fan-boy, go back and read the discussions on the possible intentional foul again...you will see that posters who made comments about the officials being bad got pasted just like you have been...we are equal opportunity fan-boy bashers...

Abused? Good grief, someone call child services.

wow -- when you are done bending over and taking it from Oden tonight and the two of you are cuddling....

now that you have proven to us about your abilities as a baseball and softball umpire I must agree with you -- definitly looked like a foul. however the 50-100 snapshots before and after that are needed to determine who initiated the tangle-up and how quickly it might have been resolved and the angles the officials had of the play.

other than that go eat a turd.

This post proves to me why I say the things I do about baseball and softball umpires. ;)

For the record I am a baseball umpire for about the same time as I have worked basketball.

Peace

ROFLMAO!! That is hilarious...other than the part about the turd - that's just gross!!

Since you are a "registered baseball and softball official and have been for 35 years"....can you please explain how Don Denkinger called Jorge Orta safe at first base during the 9th inning of Game 6 in the 1985 World Series?


http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/...s/Orta85WS.JPG

If you disagree with my post, then please explain this wrong-call and your willingness to bash basketball officials in this forum.