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[SacTown Chronic]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

By the way, Washington was robbed the other day. UConn should not have won that game. That late missed goal tending call was huge.

Yeah, but Washington robbed themselves by being up three with less than five seconds remaining and not fouling UConn. Naturally, UConn hits a three to send it into overtime. If I'm the coach, I'm telling my team to foul in that situation every single time.

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

"Slide Jeremy Giambi! Slide you miserable fvck!" (Athletics vs. Yankess)

Drives me nuts that Jeter got, and continues to get, so much love from the media for that play when the result clearly was more about Giambi (He's both mentally and physically, uh, slow.) than it was Jeter.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

Yeah, but Washington robbed themselves by being up three with less than five seconds remaining and not fouling UConn. Naturally, UConn hits a three to send it into overtime. If I'm the coach, I'm telling my team to foul in that situation every single time.

Agreed. I've done tha tmore than once. I think mst coaches are afraid to make that call though. Really, I do.

One thing that I have noticed about college ball more and more is that certain basic fundamentals are just not done. One thing that was driving me insane was the number of missed boxouts, particularly on free throws. There is no reason not to box someone out when the other team is shooting a free throw. You know exactly where they are. They can't move before the shot goes up. Yet time after time after time the shooting team got the rebound, and not just on clanked ones with long rebounds (which can be excusable).

So....is the coach afraid to look stupid by stopping the clock and allowing a miss to be be put back by the offensive team? I don't know. Maybe. I think it would be better to just teach your guys to do it right (or demand it of them).