Uncalled Cheap Shots

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Originally Posted by VaTerp

Anybody who believes for a second that what is on this tape is the only "actionable behavior" committed by #34 or that doesn't believe competent officials would have gotten rid of #34 long before foul #5 either hasn't been doing this very long or is being a contrarian.

I agree with you, but some people think they are expert officials...when armed with a keyboard and mouse.

Originally Posted by Brad

Because a competent official would have fouled his a$$ out of the game long before foul #5!!

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Originally Posted by VaTerp

I love how people keep talking about these "edited" clips as if somebody used camera tricks to make it look like #34's fouls were worse than they were...Let's be real folks. There is enough video evidence there to show how #34 was playing defense and what he was bringing to the court that night. And regardless of what else is on the game tape, nothing changes the fact that in the exact situations shown on tape, the officials were incompotent in their duties IMO. In fact, I'm quite confident that the rest of the tape could only lead to a lower opinion of the competency of these officials as it likely would point out other opportunities they missed to get #34 out of the game or control rough play in general.

But we can keep playing this game and acting like this video is some sort of fictional short story and not what it is. Indisputable video evidence of officials not properly using the tools at their disposal to control rough, and dangerous, play.

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Originally Posted by fiasco

Or we could just keep making blanket judgments about how awesome we all would have been at preventing any bad stuff from happening if we had been doing the game, because we're all so much more awesome than the officials in the video.

Well...through hard work and blessings I would be able to get into better position than at least two of them. As far as a blanket statement, I think most of us would do a better job. Some of these are so blatant that intentional fouls would leave our mouths open in shock. On two of these calls (IMO), the officials are two steps below what should have been called - they called common when they should have been flagrant. They are fortunate that the other team didn't retaliate. Or, the other coach could have really been a jerk...and what would they do about it? They already displayed the intestinal fortitude (you know what I really mean) to call what is right. Honestly, how long have you been doing this and have you ever had a situation where you had to throw a kid out of a game? What a Fiasco!