I would have called that a jump ball and nothing more. If you call Ejim for a technical, then you have to call the guy that grabbed his face for a technical. How in the **** can you not?!? It is was Ejim was trying to get out of there.
Ejim Technical
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My conclusion right after it happened was that they were going to call something on both teams because they spent so much time reviewing it. Problem is that I never saw Ejim's elbow hit Spradling and they missed the shove by Gipson.
The other question I have is why did KState get the ball. I thought in college that rule was removed and whoever had the ball got possession. Since the regular play was Ejim shooting free throws, KState should have shot the technicals first and then Ejim shooting with everyone lined up at the FT Line. In the end it didn't matter, but if Ejim had missed, we should have had a shot at the rebound.
The other question I have is why did KState get the ball. I thought in college that rule was removed and whoever had the ball got possession. Since the regular play was Ejim shooting free throws, KState should have shot the technicals first and then Ejim shooting with everyone lined up at the FT Line. In the end it didn't matter, but if Ejim had missed, we should have had a shot at the rebound.
Man, it's sad some people are so deluded to claim Ejim deserved a tech or that he needs to "cool down".
If you call that tech on Ejim you need to call two or three techs on KSU on the same play plus a tech on Kane. Was that a FIVE technical play? No, it was a no technicals play with incompetent officiating.
If you call that tech on Ejim you need to call two or three techs on KSU on the same play plus a tech on Kane. Was that a FIVE technical play? No, it was a no technicals play with incompetent officiating.
Cyclonepride
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Exactly. Still not sure when the loose ball scrambles became an anything goes melee but there was nothing unusual there, and certainly no reason for the T on Mel
It was only a technical because of slow motion instant replay and even still a fairly weak one. That, plus the 17 minutes it takes to sort out one ******* play are two definite drawbacks to how replay is used in college basketball.
There were a lot of BS calls on ISU in this game. 2 or 3 illegal screens on ISU in the game and KSU was getting away with a lot worse moving screens most of the game, the charge on Kane was total BS, as were several of the no calls when he attacked the basket, and I still have no clue on the foul on Matt Thomas when he was no where near the play.
Cyclonepride
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That foul was misapplied. Should have been Naz (for a very light chest bump to the guy's extended forearm).
Didn't they go to the replay on this though? How do you misapply it after going to the replay? I thought maybe they called something away from the ball, but never got another look to see if anything was there.
Looked more to me like when Spraddling was getting up he had Ejim's arm and Ejim pulled away just as he arm was getting extended.
Speaking of Hogue's passion. I thought for a second that he was going to get a technical at a very bad time late in the game. He got a rebound and the other guy tried to tie him up and the ref quickly called a jump ball. Hogue made a very demonstrative scream right at the ref. I was cringing, but the ref swallowed the whistle.
This. One of the announcers said something like,"You can see anything you want when you watch it in slow motion," which was dead on. You watch it full speed and it's a held ball and nothing more.
And did anyone notice (I think) Niang absolutely getting mauled/bear hugged on that play as Kane drove past him? If anything that should have been called first.
No, but I did notice that MT made the 3 point shot after Kane threw him the ball. :spinny:
KSU's game (plan) was to mug. Especially egregious on inbounding the ball, when they often were hugging Morris.
I will say this the Technical that was called on Ejim was weak. But, there were two NO CALLS that should have been called Ejim pushing Kansas State's players to the ground trying to make a play. They were pretty obvious fouls.
Ejim played a hell of a game! Surpassed Jeff Hornacek with All-Time Career points at Iowa State.
The video certainly didn't show any conclusive intentional elbow. It's not dead ball 3 pointer bad, but it was up there in the top 10 or so bad calls against ISU I've seen in the past 20 years. Given that they took their time and reviewed it to come up with such nonsense it's probably the least understandable blown call I've ever seen.
At least the dead ball 3 you could argue they were just stupid and in love with KU and forgot to do their job for about 30 seconds. This was taking five minutes of analysis to come up with something completely stupid and irrational.
The one ISU 'turnover' in KSU's 9-0 run they had a full greco roman style bear hug around Morris. You'd have thought there was 10 seconds left in the game and it was an intentional foul.
