Both games I've seen Baylor play, Simms has been out of control. She's like the gal at TTech...a volume shooter. Actually just what Fennelly prefers. Quite honestly, its the rest of the team that we need to get control of when we play them. Let Simms put up lots of shots and shut down the others. Lately she's been off more than on.
Ditto on this. It doesn't seem fair that Simms gets the winning basket, and thus the headlines that she wins the game for them. It was Robertson who won the game for them with her huge 3-pointers at the end of regulation. I suppose if I have to give Simms credit, yes, she came through in the end. But IMHO her style of play is regressing rather than advancing. Whenever she has a chance, she is practicing her acting skills, trying to draw a foul, even when there is no contact. It was good to see the refs ignore a few of those and actually call her for fouls for a change.
In general though, in games watched over the weekend, it's very frustrating to see two trends in ref calls.
1) Refs are calling offensive fouls at the slightest arm put forward. What happened to freedom of movement for the offensive player? A lead arm is slightly extended, sometimes just natural movement to get a little space, little contact, and they are calling the offensive foul.
2) Players are flopping on the slightest contact from 1). It's getting to extreme levels the way that defensive players are flying back and sliding on the floor to make it appear that an arm pushed them. This is worse than the flops on traditional get-set, take-a-charge call.