2012 Gold Medal Game: Spain v. USA

[Multiple Sports]

Does anyone know the name of the three officials that worked the gold medal game and what their primary league is ???????

How does everyone think the NCAA DI Championship crew would hae done on this game???? Assuming they got all the FIBA differences correct............

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Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

Does anyone know the name of the three officials that worked the gold medal game and what their primary league is ???????

2012 Olympics Basketball

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[Camron Rust]

I only got to see the Mens and Womens' gold medal games. Most of the games were not available on my TV package....they were on NBCSN and I don't get that channel.

Even those two games, the officiating was.....rough, particularly the women's game. I think just about any 1st round NCAA game is better officiated than what I saw in the Olympics. It is too bad they don't make use of more officials from the USA.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Officials use the term differently. There were a lot of times I would have passed on some of the contact because it had no affect on play. That being said I did not see many players adjusting. It was clear that a lot of these things were going to be called, you have to adjust. Then again I have not been impressed with much of the officiating in this tournament as a whole. There often is no real rhyme or reason for what is called and not called. It just seems like the calls were random for the most part.

Peace

Agreed with the bold part.

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

How does everyone think the NCAA DI Championship crew would hae done on this game???? Assuming they got all the FIBA differences correct............

I think they would have done exponentially better. I did not think the guys in the gold medal game were very strong.

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I only got to see the Mens and Womens' gold medal games. Most of the games were not available on my TV package....they were on NBCSN and I don't get that channel.

Even those two games, the officiating was.....rough, particularly the women's game. I think just about any 1st round NCAA game is better officiated than what I saw in the Olympics. It is too bad they don't make use of more officials from the USA.

Yep. My thoughts exactly.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I only got to see the Mens and Womens' gold medal games. Most of the games were not available on my TV package....they were on NBCSN and I don't get that channel.

Actually the games were shown on a special basketball channel that only played basketball games. They had the same thing set up for Soccer as every day there were games throughout the Olympics. You probably did not get that either in a TV package that was offered to you. It was rare that any of the games ended up on the other stations or that covered the entire game without commercial interruption. I will admit that I did not watch every minute of every game or most games, but what I saw was often head scratching.

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Even those two games, the officiating was.....rough, particularly the women's game. I think just about any 1st round NCAA game is better officiated than what I saw in the Olympics. It is too bad they don't make use of more officials from the USA.

I can think of HS games that were better officiated at some random school during any season. It was mostly bad from what I could tell.

Peace