Friday, April 2, 2010

Controversial Call??

A little late but I'll reopen this case as we'll have no carolina bball to talk about until next year...

Enjoy:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/UNC-advances-to-NIT-final-on-controversial-call?urn=ncaab,231328

2 comments:

Elis said...

i fell asleep for the end of the semifinal game so missed this play. and i missed the whole game while at work last night. but you can't call that foul with 1 second left and give away the game on the free throw line. that would have been ridiculous and people would have said unc got robbed...

Dad said...

Judgement call. If you watch the whole incident you'll see that Graves gets a body push and then a 2 hand encouragement as he is going down. Whether his intent was to lunge after the ball, it was clear he was avoiding the floor impact when he hit the guy's foot. Yes incidental trips are to be called but not secondary to an opponent's shove. Somebody should by a rule book for each color analyst so they don't just make it up as they go. Anyway UNC lost to a better (at least more mature and aggressive) team as would have URI.