Konkol is solidly in that coaching tree and you can see a lot of the same sets albeit completely different caliber of players.
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Would love to see FAU beat UCANT in the championship so they would have another loss to a future AAC team
I didn't get to watch any of the games yesterday but from the comments about the officiating I feel OK commenting about what happens with officials and the majority of the complaints against them. They call 2 different games and in the wrong order. Many games you see the officials let them play in the 1st half and marginal contact is allowed to happen. Teams adjust and raise the level of physicality but the refs decided all contact is a foul in the 2nd half. They should be calling it tighter in the 1st half to set that tone and by the time you get to the 2nd half teams adjust the other way and now you have less contact which you can let slide if it doesn't affect the play/possession. I think the Duke/Tennessee game there were 7 total 2nd half fouls with 4 minutes left. In watching the last few minutes of that game there was contact and physical play but the refs let it play and it was fairly even for both sides. I can handle that if it's consistent. Consistency, IMO, is always the problem. Called 1 way for one team and another way for the other. I felt like FAU got saddled with too many fouls because they press and run and scramble a lot and their reputation probably is good for 4-5 calls against them when we've all seen more contact let go in these games.
As for the call against Texas on the block out....it was 100% the correct call. Kudos to the ref who called it and stood behind it. The Miami player jumped but did not create that contact, the Texas player backing in and boxing out 100% created that contact. I wish refs would call that more and on the offensive players who jump into defenders to create contact. You rarely see charges against offensive players unless the defender falls down.
As for the call against Texas on the block out....it was 100% the correct call. Kudos to the ref who called it and stood behind it. The Miami player jumped but did not create that contact, the Texas player backing in and boxing out 100% created that contact. I wish refs would call that more and on the offensive players who jump into defenders to create contact. You rarely see charges against offensive players unless the defender falls down.
I like the fact they are calling offensive fouls on the guards who use their off hand and arm to gain advantage on the drives. But they are still missing some when the guards initiate contact near the rim. Kendrick Davis on Memphis was the very best in drawing those fouls by initiating the contact himself.
I don't even know what constitutes flagrant 1 or 2 anymore. It used to be flagrant fouls were dangerous and reckless sort of along the same lines as a yellow card or red card in soccer. In that instance on Sunday, from the replays I've seen, the Texas player was trying to make a basketball play so not a flagrant 1 or 2 IMO. He obviously cannot see behind him or know for certain what the Miami player is doing.
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