UConn Women Technical (Video Added)

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by zebraman

I really hope that the thinking of the officials on that play wasn't, "well the block up above was clean so let's ignore the body contact." 90% block and 10% body I can live with. That did not fit that philosophy.

How can that not T him up immediately when he is at mid-court? And by the way, it doesn't frickin' matter who T's him up. Anyone can get him. Was it because he wasn't on their end of the floor when he exploded or because they thought they might have missed the call? Geeze, I get tired of those excuses for not calling a T.

The contact took place because you have a defender that jumped into a shooter. If anything the contact caused the block, not the other way around. I saw this last night and could not understand why it was not called. And two officials had a shot to call this and passed.

Peace

[zebraman]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

The contact took place because you have a defender that jumped into a shooter. If anything the contact caused the block, not the other way around. I saw this last night and could not understand why it was not called. And two officials had a shot to call this and passed.

Peace

I agree completely. I was simply wondering if the reason they passed was because there was a huge block up above. Obviously the contact below was far too great to ignore ...... but it would not be the first time officials passed on a foul because the "block was big so let's ignore the contact."

[SWMOzebra]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

And two officials had a shot to call this and passed.

Even a late whistle from the T would have been preferrable to the no-call. In the replay looking at the contact from the baseline, you can see the T and he's got a pretty good angle on this play.

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by SWMOzebra

Even a late whistle from the T would have been preferrable to the no-call. In the replay looking at the contact from the baseline, you can see the T and he's got a pretty good angle on this play.

A call from the T was going to be tough on this one. If the contact was more towards the middle of the lane I'd agree with you but with the play taking place clearly in the C's primary the T probably felt that was too much of a reach.