Comments on: ACC Basketball Roundup(11/16)

By: BrooksJ

BrooksJ — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:55:56 +0000

This type of poor play by Dook will catch up with them. They wont get this lucky every time.

By: heeledsoul

heeledsoul — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:35:59 +0000

i have to agree with JBowling. Two calls are fresh in my mind. At the late stages of the game with RI still up a handful of points, there was an emphatic dunk by RI with one of the dookies all over his right arm, which was not called. i let that slip as i didn’t know how important that call would be. then, a few possessions later (i believe in the waning seconds of the game) with dook down by 1, Singler ends up on the favorable end of a foul call as the RI defender slaps the ball out of Singlers hands going up for a lay up. the ball hits singlers legs and goes out of bounds (hence the would-be possession change). singler drained the 2 FTs. Then Singler partially blocked Barron’s shot at the other end to effectively end the game.

i begrudgingly give credit to singler for the well-played last few minutes of the game but if the refs swallowed their whistles on the RI dunk, i can’t see how they could call the “slap” on the RI defender. i know there were plenty more instances but these two are what i recall best.

By: HeelYeah

HeelYeah — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:45:27 +0000

Dook has definitely been a team that has lived (and died) by the outside shot over the past couple of years. The lack of a legitimate post game is going to bite them in the butt again this year, hopefully many times over.

By: CCreecher

CCreecher — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:00:53 +0000

And yes….Jimmy Barron was absolutely insane.

By: C. Michael

C. Michael — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:42:20 +0000

Curious difference of opinion… I really didn’t find that foul to be overly egregious. Maybe I was just over-compensating for my natural anti-duke bias!!

By: JBowling

JBowling — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:17:32 +0000

C. Michael, it was the last 5 minutes of play that was horrific, in my opinion. I thought Singler shot free throws that no one else in the ACC would have shot. Bad thing is that w/o the call the ball would have been in transition the other way.

By: C. Michael

C. Michael — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:50:56 +0000

Also, it is plainly obvious that Duke still has zero post presence… Singler, while talented, might as well be 6’3″.

By: C. Michael

C. Michael — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:49:34 +0000

I actually thought the Duke game was officiated pretty fairly, to be honest. URI, for the most part was either getting transition layups, or jacking threes, so there really wasn’t a lot of foul opportunities for Duke. Great game, though. Jimmy Barron was unconscious…

By: JBowling

JBowling — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:19:14 +0000

The Duke game was rediculous THF. Rhode Island were the aggressors and looked like the better team. All Scheyer & Singler had to do was show up on the court to get some of those ft attempts. The last two fouls on RI were fouls that would have resulted in a possession change had they not been called. If you get a chance to see them, you will realize that even having home court advantage shouldn’t buy you those calls. No one else in the ACC gets those free throws and it gets me damn mad when our Star, hell, the Star of the whole ACC doesn’t get half that crap. BS I tell ya.