NC State vs Villanova (Video 2/2)

[hbk314]

Roughly 2:15 to go in game. NC State gets whistled for a foul giving Villanova a three point play. What was called? It seemed like it was called by the trailing official. What's he looking at from that angle?

[scrounge]

He called a push in the back, which there might have been but it was slight. Sure came in from a long, LONG way from a deep trail to call that push a foot from the baseline on the center's side

[hbk314]

Originally Posted by scrounge

He called a push in the back, which there might have been but it was slight. Sure came in from a long, LONG way from a deep trail to call that push a foot from the baseline on the center's side

Part of why I'm asking is that it looked like if there was any contact, it was with the Villanova player between him and the shooter.

[scrounge]

Originally Posted by hbk314

Part of why I'm asking is that it looked like if there was any contact, it was with the Villanova player between him and the shooter.

The NC State's player's hand was definitely near his back, just not sure how much a push there was. But if there was one, the trail had easily the best angle despite the distance.

[crosscountry55]

I'm with you guys on this one. If the T is going to come screaming in to get a foul here, it better be an elephant. This was no elephant. The look on the L's face was, "dude, seriously?"

I have a DVR and I stopped it here before the announcers could announce anything. Played it a few times to try and guess what was going to get called. I thought if anything the V shot would be good, and then V would get the ball for the common foul by NC St. on the player between the NC St. player and the shooter. But then I thought, "this would be a very odd call for an emphatically closing trail official to make." Sure enough, he called the foul in the act of shooting.

About a minute later the same official called a travel on a V player in the paint. That was technically a good call, but there hadn't been too many of those types of calls in the game, and here we were with three minutes left. Hmmm

Between that call and the one before, Jay Wright almost lost it. If there hadn't been a chaplain on the bench, he just might have.

Probably not this official's finest few minutes. I think he got a little caught up in the emotion of the game. Been there, done that, and I get a little better every time I'm in that kind of scenario. And then I move up a level and the learning curve gets even steeper.

[MechanicGuy]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

I'm with you guys on this one. If the T is going to come screaming in to get a foul here, it better be an elephant. This was no elephant. The look on the L's face was, "dude, seriously?"

I have a DVR and I stopped it here before the announcers could announce anything. Played it a few times to try and guess what was going to get called. I thought if anything the V shot would be good, and then V would get the ball for the common foul by NC St. on the player between the NC St. player and the shooter. But then I thought, "this would be a very odd call for an emphatically closing trail official to make." Sure enough, he called the foul in the act of shooting.

About a minute later the same official called a travel on a V player in the paint. That was technically a good call, but there hadn't been too many of those types of calls in the game, and here we were with three minutes left. Hmmm

Between that call and the one before, Jay Wright almost lost it. If there hadn't been a chaplain on the bench, he just might have.

Probably not this official's finest few minutes. I think he got a little caught up in the emotion of the game. Been there, done that, and I get a little better every time I'm in that kind of scenario. And then I move up a level and the learning curve gets even steeper.

Well, the first call, which the OP is about, was very much in Nova's favor, so I doubt that had much to do with Wright's whining. I did notice him, on consecutive timeouts, walk right past his players to get in an official's face.

Seems like a joy to officiate in front of

[Rich]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

I'm with you guys on this one. If the T is going to come screaming in to get a foul here, it better be an elephant. This was no elephant. The look on the L's face was, "dude, seriously?"

I have a DVR and I stopped it here before the announcers could announce anything. Played it a few times to try and guess what was going to get called. I thought if anything the V shot would be good, and then V would get the ball for the common foul by NC St. on the player between the NC St. player and the shooter. But then I thought, "this would be a very odd call for an emphatically closing trail official to make." Sure enough, he called the foul in the act of shooting.

About a minute later the same official called a travel on a V player in the paint. That was technically a good call, but there hadn't been too many of those types of calls in the game, and here we were with three minutes left. Hmmm

Between that call and the one before, Jay Wright almost lost it. If there hadn't been a chaplain on the bench, he just might have.

Probably not this official's finest few minutes. I think he got a little caught up in the emotion of the game. Been there, done that, and I get a little better every time I'm in that kind of scenario. And then I move up a level and the learning curve gets even steeper.

I called the travel from my couch. Absolutely the right call. Some people gotsta work real hard to rip on a crew when they get one right.

[A Pennsylvania Coach]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

About a minute later the same official called a travel on a V player in the paint. That was technically a good call, but there hadn't been too many of those types of calls in the game, and here we were with three minutes left. Hmmm

Please re-evaluate your thinking on this. Just because no one had traveled in the first 37 minutes, you are going to let a player get away with breaking a basic rule, gaining an unfair advantage that leads to an easy bucket late in a close game?