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From: bradley@storm.rtp.dg.com (Scott Bradley)
Reply-To: bradley@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com
Organization: Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC
Subject: Re: Duke-IU--the problem with basketball
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In article <1992Apr8.175758.5895@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 00bjgood@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
> In article <1992Apr5.065753.20092@talon.ucs.orst.edu>, navarrer@bionette.CGRB.ORST.EDU (Roy Navarre -- Botany and Plant Pathology) writes:
>> A decent game, but hardly a greatgood one. I am amazed Knight kept his 
>> cool in the newsconference after the game. I really thought he was
>> (rightly) going to rip the officiating. Course, I'll probably read the
>> paper tomorrow and find out he went on a late night rampage. :)
>> 
>> From what I saw the various CBS people thought the officiating was good. 
>> I found that hard to believe. I though packer should have ripped a couple
>> of calls--instead nothing. We went from Bill Walton ripping (wrongly!)
>> Brown for various things including taking Shaq out (when shaq asked to be
>> taken out) to packer being a yes man and not getting on any of the
>> controversial calls! Reminds me of when Woody Hayes hit the player and the
>> color people played it down. What about the foul against ANderson (on
>> Laettner) when the two IU players were clearly standing still with their
>> arms straight in the air and Laettner tried to split them?  Not a peep out
>> of CBS. There were similar calls all night that deserved comment on. Most
>> against IU. Duke goes to the line 42 times? Give me a break. Cheaney
>> picks up 4 offensive fouls?????? 4 IU players foul out?????? Bailey picks up
>> 3 or 4 reach in fouls????????  Duke goes to the line 42 times??????
>> Knight gets a technical for his bench jumping up??????????? Duke goes to
>> the line 42 times?  And CBS doesnt even bother to comment?  If thats the
>> best they can do lets let ESPN do it each year. Or one of the other
>> networks. Another thing that really steamed me about CBS's coverage was
>> that they had been saying throughout the game "an interview with Shaq after
>> the game". So Im thinking yea! The Shaqster to speak.  Right before the
>> last commercial CBS says we will be back with the Shaq interview. They come
>> back and chat for 2 minutes with the four CBS clowns (ok one of em wasnt a
>> clown) then say sorry no time for the Shaq interview. Now this is just
>> minutes after going to a commercial when they said we will be back with the
>> shaq interview. *&(*&(^^(*(&^&*&^&^*#$%$*&^ CBS!!!  Then there post game
>> interviews were very Shakey. Nothing on IU. How about
>>   Q
>>   some serious post game analysis guys?:
>> 
>> More on next post--continued
>> Roy
>> cc: GIDI
> 	I totally agree, the officiating was horible.  I am an IU fan, and am
> slightly biased, but I feel Duke got the wide majority of the calls 
> throughout the tournament.  It was even more obvious in the IU game.  How
> many times has Indiana had four players foul out of one game this year? 
> NONE, and the way they screwed Bailey was terrible.  Michigan got more of
> the same in the championship game, although it seemed they were overmached
> anyway.  And as far as CBS is concerned, Duke was going to be the national
> champs before the season even started.  The Final Four pregame was all Duke,
> nothing about Indiana.  Indiana, Michigan, and even Kentucky were playing 5
> on 8 (including the officials), and 5 on 9 (if you include Billy Packers
> announcing). Is Laettner his illegitimate son or what.  I guess CBS wants
> good ratings more than a good tournament.

    I would not have been surprised to hear this kind of talk from other
teams, but Indiana...?  Indiana and Duke are the two teams that benefit from
drawing fouls more than just about anybody else.  Remember the over quoted
stat about they make more free throws than their opponents attempt?  Well 
this game was no different except Duke adjusted better to the way the game
was being called.  If you noticed, there were a lot of charging fouls called
on Duke early.  In fact Duke *out fouled* Indiana early.  But as the game
continued, it looked like the Duke players saw that block/charges were being
called a charge and adjusted accordingly.  Indiana continued to drive on
players to get a blocking call but were (consistently for the game) called
for the offensive foul.  Yes, I agree that not all the drives that ended in
an offensive foul should have been charges, some should have been blocks. 
Not all the calls were correct, but all the calls were consistent.  Part of
the game, rightly or wrongly, is to learn how to adjust to the way the game
is being officiated.  I am pretty sure if Indiana had gone the the line 42
times, a lot of their fans would have justified it by saying that their
team does this consistently against their opponents.  Well, so does Duke.
Indiana has a great team and a great coach.  I'm proud to say that our Coach
K learned from your Coach K and because of that, if Indiana had won I would 
have been pulling for them to win it all.
  




















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