(02-01-2018 07:31 AM)coogdiehard Wrote:  

(02-01-2018 02:06 AM)zdiddy513 Wrote:  

(02-01-2018 01:59 AM)stxrunner Wrote:  

(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.

I feel bad for Houston. They deserved to win but it just wasn't in the cards. They won't play a better half this season and they still lose by double digits. I hope they don't give up because they could be a sweet 16 type team.

We actually played a better half against Arkansas I know that’s hard to believe being little ole Houston and all.

Little ole Houston is going to be a tough out for a lot of teams including UC. I really like what Sampson is doing with that team. As fans we see what we want to see with officiating and I'll agree that the call that sent Evans to the free throw line was as bad as you will see. I thought the 4th foul on Clark was bad until I saw him get his butt chewed by Cronin so I figured there was contact I didn't see. It was a good game and it's good to see Houston improving as rapidly as they are. UC is going to have to bring it's best game to Houston if they hope to come out with a win. It's possible but we are going to need a lot better shooting from our guards than we got last night although Houston's defense had a lot to do with that.