ESPN gameday blaming refs for TN win

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BisonVol said:
If the foul numbers were reversed, 17 on Tennessee and 11 on Duke, along with the score, none of these talking heads would say a word about the officiating. They’re just sour because their precious Blue Devils got smacked around like the bunch of soft rag dolls they are.
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total number of fouls are always skewed when one team starts fouling (Duke) at the end of the game. Figure 4-5 of them came then. Otherwise, fairly even. That said, they did “let them play” which went both ways but benefited us. No one complained about the finger graze on the three that wasn’t called on the next trip down the floor when it happened to JJJ. The Roach reversal, etc.
 
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BisonVol said:
Bottom line: ESPN along with a couple of other outlets are trying to craft a narrative so that our next game is whistled tight. They want the Vols out because we destroyed their narrative of the red hot Blue Devils going on to win it all
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Yes. The integrity of the game is at stake unless our “thugs” get reigned in. How much you bet we can’t fart without getting whistled next game?
 
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Tenacjim said:
Yes. The integrity of the game is at stake unless our “thugs” get reigned in. How much you bet we can’t fart without getting whistled next game?
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The officiating will almost certainly go against us in a way we’ve not seen before. We will just have to play through it as best we can.

I say all of this not excusing some of Uros’ early antics in the Duke game, but what the media refuses to accept because it doesn’t fit their narrative is that those two early fouls of his don’t encapsulate the entire game. It’s fair to say those two fouls were excessive, but not at no point for the remainder of the game did we do anything that a sane person could consider to be excessive.
 
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Hoggervol said:
Yes. The integrity of the game is at stake unless our “thugs” get reigned in. How much you bet we can’t fart without getting whistled next game?
That would be a fragrant foul.
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ESPN would likely say that nobody farts unless they are "trailer trash".
 
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BisonVol said:
The officiating will almost certainly go against us in a way we’ve not seen before. We will just have to play through it as best we can.

I say all of this not excusing some of Uros’ early antics in the Duke game, but what the media refuses to accept because it doesn’t fit their narrative is that those two early fouls of his don’t encapsulate the entire game. It’s fair to say those two fouls were excessive, but not at no point for the remainder of the game did we do anything that a sane person could consider to be excessive.
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Yes. And those were fouls (not flagrant) and were called as such. The flopping also likely didn’t buy any sympathy from the Refs. They were likely embarrassed after they reviewed the play where SV grazed the guys face with the ball and he acted like Mike Tyson just punched him in the face.
 
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Tenacjim said:
Yes. And those were fouls (not flagrant) and were called as such. The flopping also likely didn’t buy any sympathy from the Refs. They were likely embarrassed after they reviewed the play where SV grazed the guys face with the ball and he acted like Mike Tyson just punched him in the face.
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Naturally, ESPN has no recollection of that play or our first basket of the game where Olivier got shoved in the back by Flopikowski. There are other calls that went Duke’s way that isn’t written anywhere in the media’s revisionist history of the game.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Tshiebwe gets away with murder on dang near every possession. Cry me a river.
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Plays for a blue blood. Different set of rules for the blue blood darlings. Kansas State better get ready for some one sided officiating in their next game. Same for us and Arkansas. Maybe I’m wearing a tin foil hat, but I truly believe NCAA will try to exact retribution for committing the atrocity of knocking blue bloods out of the tournament in the first weekend.
 
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BisonVol said:
Naturally, ESPN has no recollection of that play or our first basket of the game where Olivier got shoved in the back by Flopikowski. There are other calls that went Duke’s way that isn’t written anywhere in the media’s revisionist history of the game.
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💯 Don’t know that I had ever previously seen a foul on a ball grazing a player. Not like Santi hit the guy in the face purposely for goodness sakes.
 
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brockytop said:
💯 Don’t know that I had ever previously seen a foul on a ball grazing a player. Not like Santi hit the guy in the face purposely for goodness sakes.
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I don't recall ever seeing that call, either.

Serious question: if the defender had dislodged the ball with his face, gained possession of the ball, and driven for a bucket, what's the call?
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I don't recall ever seeing that call, either.

Serious question: if the defender had dislodged the ball with his face, gained possession of the ball, and driven for a bucket, what's the call?
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Great question and one I don’t know the answer to.
 
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Physicality always ends up being the key to the tournament. Guard play and 3s can't win anybody 6 games in a row, against that competition and under that pressure.
 
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zjcvols said:
Let’s not act like because the ESPN dudes suck that Charles Barkley is 1985 Billy Packer either. Barkley couldn’t name five NCAA players before Thursday.
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But he knows how the game is played.

Duke is so accustomed to getting bailed out by the refs…that they think they are getting screwed when they don’t get preferential treatment.
 
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