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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2493181, member: 289"]
I would like to have seen how good a roster with a fully healthy Chukwu-Sibidie-Thompson-Brissett-Moyer-Dolezaj-Howard-Battle-Thorpe-Washington might have accomplished.

As to the refs you can criticize the refs without saying they were biased. They can affect the appeal of the game with the way they call it. They can be inconsistent even if their inconsistencies don't favor one team. And the way they call an evenly called game can impact one team more than another. If they decide to call 50 fouls instead of 30, it can impact a thin team more than a deep one, (I thought that was going to happen but they backed off). You might remember that Ohio State game in the NCAAs where we were the running team and they were the half-court team and all the fouls that were called disrupted our game more than theirs.

Also a team that drives to the basket is going to draw more fouls than a jump-shooting team. It's a question of whether those fouls are being called consistently. We drew fouls sometimes but other times we got mugged or tripped and they let it go. it's also irritating if they decide to call things that we haven't seen called all year, like all the travels and the double dribble.

The refs weren't biased or incompetent but they were at least strange last night.
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