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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1301597, member: 581"]
Weird,  I don't think there have been many threads blaming the refs at all this year.  There was the 'Nova game, and A TON of posts since the ACC season started about how bad the officials have been with their inability to calls fouls for Christmas in the post.  If you don't think he's taking a beating down there, that's fine, but I think most reasonable (probably everyone here) thinks that's the case though.

Then this game.  Which, in fairness I thought was atrocious all night, but at the end, I will concede to LongIsland that we were destroyed at the end with bad calls (since Okafor was absolutely 100% out of that game with 3:00 left (as Bilas emphatically agreed with) and again 30 seconds later...and the refs missed those.  That being said, they missed a ton of everything.  They also missed that strange two-man onslaught against Roberson's arms on the baseline that resulted in the ball going out of bounds off of Duke...they almost took his arms off.  Roberson's face looked like he had instantaneous PTSD.

They did the worst overall job I have seen in a bit.  We're talking straight up arm-grab/jersey-pulls with players being re-directed -  in the open-court - that weren't called.  Which is different than 'Nova which was one-sided from the jump.

BTW, maybe the highlight of the night was this moment by Bilas (paraphrasing):

[I]The refs just stopped the game to tell the players to stop complaining about all the bad calls.  They (the players) should stop complaining.  They're right to complain.  I mean, they're right about the bad calls, and they're complaint is valid, but they shouldn't be complaining.  They are missing a ton of calls out there, but they should just play.[/I]

WTG, Jay!!!
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