(01-31-2018 10:19 PM)pesik Wrote:  last note of the night then im done ... im not mad about the fouls per se, if we actually out there fouling like crazy, throwing our bodies at every player trying to score, being over aggressive on rebounds ..i would just accept that was a the game plan

half of them were light fouls, a huge portion of them were away from the ball with lite contact. 2 were phantom calls, that even the announcerss agreed with. the 4th foul on brady, brady (uh center) put his hands up standing straight, evans (cincy) ducks his head put his body on brady's body trying to move him and brady gets called for a foul ..if im being honest we were a lot more physical on wsu than cincy

what bothered me was it completely changed how we played...this games wasnt even competitive till the foul trouble. we were out hustling them, out matching them in the paint, and being a way more physical. the only source of points was their big men shooting 3s...they couldnt get a inch in the paint and their guards were being suffocated..then the foul trouble came and our bigs purposefully jumped out of the way on every drive by cincy..we became timid and with good reason (we purposely avoided fouls the entire 2nd and still 1 foul away from having all 3 bigs foul out)

thats my piece...and as much as im railing on the refs. refs help or not coming back from 18 is no easy task.. i doubt few team in similar situations, no matter that circumstances could have still pulled it off..

we lost but im off the mindset that if we are allowed to play "our game" the full game, we can beat anyone
good win on cincy's ends..if the tables were turned id definitely take the win regardless ...atleast your high bid is safe for now..which might actually be better for the conference

I'll admit, I haven't read most of this thread, but if i had a guess, I'd say this is the bargaining stage of the 5 stages of grief. I assume denial and anger came before this.