Refs gave this one to unc atleast a 15 point advantage..

[orangefan13]

There is home call advantage and then there is that stinky rotten thing whatever you called it.
Go Cuse!!

 

[jdubs30]

Really happy with our effort. Some of the offensive fouls against us were questionable; but at the end of the day UNC just got more 50/50 balls than us. It seemed like every loose ball they got to first. I really have no idea how we were so close at the end, G was up and down all game. Cooney/Mali/Lydon were invisible it seemed like.

PS. The last 6 minutes or so, Lydon was open A LOT on the screen and roll but we never hit him, it was frustrating

 

[Chris02M]

no they ddint we were outplayed and had to many turnovers

 

[Ghost]

Really happy with our effort. Some of the offensive fouls against us were questionable; but at the end of the day UNC just got more 50/50 balls than us. It seemed like every loose ball they got to first. I really have no idea how we were so close at the end, G was up and down all game. Cooney/Mali/Lydon were invisible it seemed like.

PS. The last 6 minutes or so, Lydon was open A LOT on the screen and roll but we never hit him, it was frustrating

There was one before Carolina extended the lead to 9 or 11 (before our final comeback) where Lydon was wide open, he threw a cross-court pass to Cooney instead (who was covered) who then passed to Mali. Mali then did something bizarre as he was prone to doing tonight that led to a UNC runout. Felt like a huge mistake at the time, but we had one last run in us.

Lydon was wide open...and it was the easier pass. Gotta hit him.

 

[NineOneSeven]

Really happy with our effort. Some of the offensive fouls against us were questionable; but at the end of the day UNC just got more 50/50 balls than us. It seemed like every loose ball they got to first. I really have no idea how we were so close at the end, G was up and down all game. Cooney/Mali/Lydon were invisible it seemed like.

PS. The last 6 minutes or so, Lydon was open A LOT on the screen and roll but we never hit him, it was frustrating

Howard would have found him

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Speaking of the refs though, way too quick with the offensive call charges tonight. How they called that one on Frank in the first half still blows my mind. That wasn't close and preventing guys from sliding under guys already in the air was supposed to be one of the points of emphasis last year I thought. That was awful.

 

[Jack Hall]

That last O foul on Mali, grayson does that every single time and maybe gets called 1 in 10 on GA. Tough call on Mal, guy was bumping his hip

 

[Ghost]

Speaking of the refs though, way too quick with the offensive call charges tonight. How they called that one on Frank in the first half still blows my mind. That wasn't close and preventing guys from sliding under guys already in the air was supposed to be one of the points of emphasis last year I thought. That was awful.

Doris was right on that one - so many issues with that call. Player wasn't set. Player was in the protected circle. And primary defender HAD ALREADY fouled G before the offensive foul contact occurred. That alone should negate it.

Would like to have seen that play near half-court again where UNC saved it, and G was on his back. Looked like he switched pivot feet to make the pass.

The second to last basket by UNC, long rebound, Johnson or whomever, went through Roberson to tip it out. Just because it's a long rebound, doesn't cancel out over the back if you come from behind.

Thought they were bad both ways though - overall, pretty bad job by the threesome.

 

[Ghost]

That last O foul on Mali, grayson does that every single time and maybe gets called 1 in 10 on GA. Tough call on Mal, guy was bumping his hip

Yeah, I think the stumble sold it. Not a flop though - think he genuinely lost balance. There are players that make a living off that though. I couldn't blame the official on that one though.

He made that stupid shot too.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Doris was right on that one - so many issues with that call. Player wasn't set. Player was in the protected circle.

Would like to have seen that play near half-court again where UNC saved it, and G was on his back. Looked like he switched pivot feet to make the pass.

The second to last basket by UNC, long rebound, Johnson or whomever, went through Roberson to tip it out. Just because it's a long rebound, doesn't cancel out over the back if you come from behind.

Thought they were bad both ways though - overall, pretty bad job by the threesome.

I agree on the bad calls both ways. I thought Roberson took the ball off the rim a couple times tonight and didn't get whistled. Refs are just awful this year. It's getting progressively worse all the time.

 

[Ghost]

I agree on the bad calls both ways. I thought Roberson took the ball off the rim a couple times tonight and didn't get whistled. Refs are just awful this year. It's getting progressively worse all the time.

Yeah, there was one instance where I thought we goaltended really blatantly, even saw UNC's bench leap-up...but no call, and as usual, no replay. They sucked on replays tonight.

 

[realorange]

Officiating was bad both ways as it has been in too many ACC games this year. Somebody needs to take a hard look at league officials and procedures going into next year.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

That Stephens dude was blowing the whistle for charges on our guys before there was even contact

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Yeah, there was one instance where I thought we goaltended really blatantly, even saw UNC's bench leap-up...but no call, and as usual, no replay. They sucked on replays tonight.

ESPN is far too concerned with selling the next thing they're showing. Not showing the second free throw shot by Lydon to show us the seniors this year made me scream at the TV.

 

[Ghost]

That Stephens dude was blowing the whistle for charges on our guts before there was even contact

He's horrible with early whistles - I think less so this year than in year's past, but I thought today he was back to his old nonsense. Some early calls.

Still not sure how that was a foul on Cooney and not a play-on on the collision with Paige. I said that when I thought the foul was on UNC too. Just because you're going North-South doesn't mean you have the right to the ball if you both get there at the same time. Play on.

 

[jdubs30]

Within the first 10 minutes of the 1st half it was 7-0 fouls in favor of us. I feel like the refs tried to make a BUNCH of make up calls -- UNC wasn't getting to the basket much so they had to call it on us offensively to even the numbers. G literally had 2 charges in a row, I'm not sure I've ever seen that.

 

[Ghost]

Within the first 10 minutes of the 1st half it was 7-0 fouls in favor of us. I feel like the refs tried to make a BUNCH of make up calls -- UNC wasn't getting to the basket much so they had to call it on us offensively to even the numbers. G literally had 2 charges in a row, I'm not sure I've ever seen that.

The angle on the second one made it hard to tell if it was legit. Did he extend the arm on that one too?

 

[CuseFaninVT]

The angle on the second one made it hard to tell if it was legit. Did he extend the arm on that one too?

Doesn't seem like it even matters anymore. As a defender all you need to do is grab the offensive players arm, pull it into your chest, and move backwards just a bit.

 

[Ghost]

Doesn't seem like it even matters anymore. As a defender all you need to do is grab the offensive players arm, pull it into your chest, and move backwards just a bit.

lol...I was watching Gonzaga / BYU this weekend - that must have happened 83 times. I couldn't even believe the frequency.

 

[orangefog]

Speaking of the refs though, way too quick with the offensive call charges tonight. How they called that one on Frank in the first half still blows my mind. That wasn't close and preventing guys from sliding under guys already in the air was supposed to be one of the points of emphasis last year I thought. That was awful.

It seems as though, now that there is the arc, the refs have gotten lazy and mostly look at whether the defender is inside or outside the arc. If the defender is outside the arc, they call charge.

 

[longislandcuse]

We finally showed up with about ten minutes left but, my goodness, I have NEVER seen so many loose balls go one way.

I can't even get on the players for that, the basketball literally bounced right to random UNC guys every other time.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

It seems as though, now that there is the arc, the refs have gotten lazy and mostly look at whether the defender is inside or outside the arc. If the defender is outside the arc, they call charge.

Thank you for saying that, as I meant to when I fired off that first one. I wish JB would lay into the refs during the press conferences like he does to some of his players on occasion. Just once. "This crew sucked balls. They missed a hell of a game."

 

[upperdeck]

the key to the game was the 5 Off fouls and the one stretch were we just made 2-3 awful lazy passes.. you cant control the fact that NC throws 3-4 bigs out there who can make plays and go get bad passes.

 

[br801]

That Stephens dude was blowing the whistle for charges on our guys before there was even contact

Yeah, Mike Stephens is usually bad news.

 

[SBU72]

There is home call advantage and then there is that stinky rotten thing whatever you called it.
Go Cuse!!

Never one to blame the ref's but I thought it was pretty funny that within a minute of the announcers pointing out how SU had only 1 foul and UNC had 6, G was called for an offensive foul (forearm against a defender who was riding him which I cant remember ever being called), THEN another one. And the next thing you know. SU had the same 3 of fouls as UNC because UNC didn't get called for any more. Starting the 2nd half, they reversed it, SU got the early foul led and UNC caught up!