NC/Kentucky game clincher (2 Clips Added)

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by johnny d

You really need me to tell you what obvious means in regards to making calls? I know you have way too much experience to be making such a silly statement.

In the context of this play, yes. The words "more obvious" were yours, not mine.

Originally Posted by johnny d

We can debate whether or not is should or shouldn't matter. I don't see anything wrong with holding a whistle on this play a few extra seconds to see what develops.

"A few extra seconds?" Waiting a beat - a half-second to a second - is one thing. Waiting a few extra seconds, to borrow the words of an observer I met this summer, amounts to cheating. Again, his words not mine. Regardless, had UNC not gotten off the baseball pass and the throw-in gone to the player who got free due to the screen the time to call a foul is long gone.

Originally Posted by johnny d

Point in the game is meaningless by itself. In combination with the fact that I thought it was a marginally illegal screen that may have been passed on earlier in the game, then late in the game is not the time to start making that kind of call. If screens were called that tightly throughout, then get that play. If there has been leeway throughout the game, now is not the time to start calling it.

We can use the "if..." factor for a lot of plays we watch here because most of us don't see the entire game. I didn't see all of UK/UNC and it would appear you didn't either. We're just going on the merits of what's on the video. I'm still curious as to what was marginal on the contact but to each his own.