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mb1
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 Posted: 10/09/14 12:27 pm ::: Director of Officials |
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NCAA Women's BKB@NCAAWomensBKB·13 mins13 minutes ago
June Courteau named NCAA's national coordinator of women's basketball officials: http://on.ncaa.com/1sgBfyt |
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Happycappie25
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| Posted: 10/09/14 1:13 pm ::: Re: Director of Officials |
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| mb1 wrote: |
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Dishin' & Swishin' retweeted
NCAA Women's BKB@NCAAWomensBKB·13 mins13 minutes ago
June Courteau named NCAA's national coordinator of women's basketball officials: http://on.ncaa.com/1sgBfyt |
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Because a whistle every 10 seconds and hitting the 7th deadly sin in the first 7 minutes just wasn't enough.
I'll give her a shot...she knows the rules, sometimes people like that are better off the court administrating refs than reffing on it, see Dee Kantner.
the real issue of course is the stupid point of emphasis on contact. Zero Tolerance hand check is normally good...but games were decided on foul counts...Hell UConn won 2 games by just weathering the storm letting the fouls add up then throwing down the hammer.
Way too many whistles...just as bad as the men's as well...this isn't a skill or teaching issue, refs need better training on when to enforce the rule and what is a hand check. both the NBA and W use the Zero tolerance hand check and you see half as many whistles...it just messed up game flow and really put too much of the game in the mouth of the ref...never a good thing.
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ClayK
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| Posted: 10/09/14 2:30 pm ::: |
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Interesting issue about the flow of the game ...
The NBA felt that the game was getting bogged down by too much physical defense, and after some experimentation, finally decided that tightening up the officiating was the answer, and calling more borderline fouls (favoring the offense when in doubt) would help.
It did, and the game improved dramatically because of it. Watch some older NBA films and you'll see ...
So, then, the idea was to do the same at the college level, and what inevitably happens at first is a lot of foul calls while players adjust. The risk is that some officials too get tired of blowing the whistle and then revert to their former ways, while others keep calling it tight.
Then players don't what to do, and you get some games where the whistles blow all night, and others where they never seem to.
Of course it's easier in the NBA -- fewer officials, more centralized control and review, etc. -- but I think the theory is sound. Tighter control of contact initiated by the defense will lead to a more free-flowing game, but there is, as we all know, a difference between theory and practice.
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| Posted: 10/09/14 2:33 pm ::: Re: Director of Officials |
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| mb1 wrote: |
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Dishin' & Swishin' retweeted
NCAA Women's BKB@NCAAWomensBKB·13 mins13 minutes ago
June Courteau named NCAA's national coordinator of women's basketball officials: http://on.ncaa.com/1sgBfyt |
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Egad. Well, it could have been worse....could have been Sally Bell, the ref from hell. Not by much, though.
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Homyonkel
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| Posted: 10/09/14 5:00 pm ::: |
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| Good to know June Courteau won't be returning to the court any time soon. She was responsible for the worst call I've ever seen in my (long) life - an intentional foul against Diana Taurasi at West Virginia 10 to 12 years ago that didn't look at all intentional. After slo-mo replay it was CLEAR that it wasn't a foul at all.
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