Love having the 49ers in my league again, but I still can't get over the poor job the officials did at the end of that game. Very poor. 1 poor call after the other, and after the incident after the free throw, it should have been a double technical after the Niner player grabbed the Richmond kid around the neck and the subsequent shove. Either call it on both or not call it at all. It is sad incompetence cause the end of any teams season.

(03-14-2013 02:40 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 02:37 PM)wh49er Wrote:  http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013...e-seconds/


Here's the original tech

I don't think I'd have called that a tech in that situation, but it was stupid.

This is the first clip I've seen of this.

Believe me, I'm not the biggest Charlotte fan but that was definitely worth a tech.

The Richmond player wasn't making a play on the ball, and he literally pushed the guy. Not body-nudged him, but put his hands on the guy and pushed.

Definitely a tech. And definitely a stupid move.

(03-15-2013 11:27 AM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 02:40 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 02:37 PM)wh49er Wrote:  http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013...e-seconds/


Here's the original tech

I don't think I'd have called that a tech in that situation, but it was stupid.

This is the first clip I've seen of this.

Believe me, I'm not the biggest Charlotte fan but that was definitely worth a tech.

The Richmond player wasn't making a play on the ball, and he literally pushed the guy. Not body-nudged him, but put his hands on the guy and pushed.

Definitely a tech. And definitely a stupid move.

Should have been a double tech no doubt with the 49er kids wrapping his arm around the Richmond kid's head first. Either both or nothing. Very obvious after the video.

(03-15-2013 11:45 AM)nastybunch Wrote:  

(03-15-2013 11:27 AM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 02:40 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 02:37 PM)wh49er Wrote:  http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013...e-seconds/


Here's the original tech

I don't think I'd have called that a tech in that situation, but it was stupid.

This is the first clip I've seen of this.

Believe me, I'm not the biggest Charlotte fan but that was definitely worth a tech.

The Richmond player wasn't making a play on the ball, and he literally pushed the guy. Not body-nudged him, but put his hands on the guy and pushed.

Definitely a tech. And definitely a stupid move.

Should have been a double tech no doubt with the 49er kids wrapping his arm around the Richmond kid's head first. Either both or nothing. Very obvious after the video.

The only reason the first tech was a tech was because it was a dead ball foul, not because of what he did. The proper judgement by an official is to let it go and get the two players together and give a warning. Because the next free throw would be required to be missed and rebounded by Charlotte. That is when the game would have been on the line. Instead the official made a decision that took the game out of the players' hands because there was a tie up on a made free throw. That is the problem.

It may be a fine line between letting them play and letting it get out of hand. In this instance it was the ref's decision that the line was crossed when the Richmond player pushed the Charlottte player to the floor, and I fully agree. I don't think it was a hard decision to make. To not make that dead ball call would have been a major officiating error.

I've got no dog in this fight, and all I've read is this thread and all I've watched is that businessinsider video, and it sure looked to me that Richmond snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Having had Watson Brown as a football coach for many soul-leeching years, I've seen lots of really dumb ways to lose a game, but that may just be my personal prize winner.

They re-enacted the game on one of the ESPN shows this morning and basically showed that the head grab was a reaction to being pushed a couple of times by the Richmond kid (tried a swim move, it looks like, and then grabs at anything he can after the first, small shove- not the one that knocks him down). I've heard about it, but I haven't seen the video to hear the whole discussion.

(03-15-2013 09:19 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 09:39 PM)UofMBandGuy Wrote:  Nice flop and fist pump by the charlotte guy on the first t.

An elbow will do that sometimes. That tech has been called legit by league officials so let it go.

And OJ was innocent of killing his ex-wife and her friend.

(03-14-2013 01:41 PM)Whiteboard3 Wrote:  Mooney is an idiot. Nothing that was called was even questionable. An intentional elbow, and YES Pierria was shooting that ball. He was burning time, and trying to get 3 free throws. It worked. I don't get the frustration, we've been doing it all year, watch game film.

I don't think that an officials could ignore what happened under the basket and had to call something. As I understand it, a tech was his only option, and if that's the case; he had no choice. That was a proper call.

The three free throws awarded for the heave after the foul were bogus, merely adds irrelevant complications to the discussion, and gives the perception of biased officiating. No one with any credibility or respect for the game could defend that call.

Yeah, the three shots being a bad call I can agree with, but like you said, it's moot, unless that's what set Richmond's coach off.

Even then, he's a grown man.

(03-15-2013 11:45 AM)nastybunch Wrote:  

(03-15-2013 11:27 AM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 02:40 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(03-14-2013 02:37 PM)wh49er Wrote:  http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013...e-seconds/


Here's the original tech

I don't think I'd have called that a tech in that situation, but it was stupid.

This is the first clip I've seen of this.

Believe me, I'm not the biggest Charlotte fan but that was definitely worth a tech.

The Richmond player wasn't making a play on the ball, and he literally pushed the guy. Not body-nudged him, but put his hands on the guy and pushed.

Definitely a tech. And definitely a stupid move.

Should have been a double tech no doubt with the 49er kids wrapping his arm around the Richmond kid's head first. Either both or nothing. Very obvious after the video.

I did not see the charlotte guy grab the richmond guy's head the first five times I watched this but you are correct. that would explain the shove.