This Saturday me and Richard spent most of the day watching sports...BYU of course. First we watched the basketball game against Arizona State, it was in Arizona. This was a big game for BYU because we (meaning BYU for most of this post) are one spot out of the top 25 and ASU was ranked 17 (or 20, depending on which poll you look at, but either way...) so this could be our big chance to break into the national rankings! Woohoo. Only one problem...we lost...76-75. Talk about a heart breaker! And even worse is that we actually won the game, we should have beat them by quite a bit (we would have beat them easily in Provo). I have a few complaints about the game...most of which are blamed on the refs (I know that I am biased...but seriously...anybody who watched the game would agree with me regardless of which team you support, except ASU of course).
1. We got completely homered the entire game. Our players literally got thrown to the ground (no exaggeration...jersey grabbed and thrown to the ground) on several occasions and yet we are the ones that got called for the foul...I'm pretty sure that is backwards.
2. ASU was in DOUBLE bonus with 10 minutes left in the game (HOMERED!).
3. Harden (ASU's "best" player) had more free throws than the entire BYU team.
4. Only 8 of Harden's points came from something other than free throws (I don't think that makes him a great player, it makes him a player that gets bailed out by the refs every time he drives to the basket).
5. We didn't drive enough, if we had driven to the basket more we might have had a chance to get ASU in more foul trouble.
6. Jackson Emery fouled out with 5 minutes left in the game (the last foul was one in which he was knocked to the ground by ASU).
7. We did actually win the game, but the refs changed their minds after the buzzer. We were down by two with 3 seconds left and we had the ball under our own basket (our inbounds play was not good, but we still won). Tavernari took a shot that was completely tipped and not even close however he was able to recover it and throw a quick pass to Abouo who tipped it in (backwards) as the red lights went off and the clock hit zero. One of the refs called it good, giving BYU the win, however after reviewing the play they changed their minds, deciding that the shot came after the buzzer. This is awful because they called it good first and there was no way the video evidence was good enough to overturn their original call. It was literally a matter of fingertips, the human eye cannot see the difference made by a tenth of a second.
Here is the video of about the last minute. Note that in the beginning of the clip Lee Cummard (BYU) is literally hip checked and nothing is called. Also, at the end, no human can tell if the shot was off in time, but the ref called it good FIRST, that is the most important thing.
8. And lastly, we were 10-0 going into that game, we should be 11-0 now but the refs messed up our record on that one. We were the better team (cocky I know, but true).
Those are my complaints about the basketball game, and I will not be over that one for a while. Wake Forest (6th in the nation) comes to the Marriott Center in Provo on January 3rd, hopefully we win that (that will make me feel much better).
After the frustration of the basketball game we went to my house to watch BYU football play Arizona in the Las Vegas Bowl. I am not too upset about this because it was just UGLY! We did not play well at all. :( So I don't really have a list of complaints for this like I do for the basketball game. But all in all it was not a good day to be a BYU fan. :(
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Jess,
No offense but I agree with the call by the refs at the end of the game. I don't think the ball came off Moragn Jr's hand in time. When the clock read 0.0 it appears to still be on his finger tips.
My theory about refs, is that no matter what, you have to play your game. They did get thrown down A TON, but they just didn't win. It was a good game though. I'm stoked for the WF game. We're all headed to it to cheer for our boys!!!
First, the shot was Abouo, not Morgan Jr. Second, I completely agree that there were some things we could have done better in order to avoid being in that situation (like not letting them go on a 14-5 run), but I am still blaming the majority of the game on the refs. :) We got homered. Hard core. But we will redeem ourselves against WF...welcome to Provo! :)
Okay, I was wrong on the shooter, but meh. I dunno if I would have gone to Tavenari in the end. They all knew where the ball was headed, so why not hit a cutter to the basket, an easier shot, but let by-gones be by-gones! Hope all is well with you y Rich!!!
Timpanogas...it was so fun!
Jess, I think you're every man's dream wife. Instead of yelling at him for watching sports, you know more about it than a lot of guys. I watch the games, but well...you know I'm sports retarded. :) Tell Richard he's lucky.
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