Comments on: Charlotte Beat Richmond in One of the Craziest Endings Ever, From Down 3 to Up 5 Thanks to Technicals in Final Five Seconds

By: chatterbox

chatterbox — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:08:32 +0000

Dead ball foul is automatic technical.

By: Monster is Meth

Monster is Meth — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:56:42 +0000

Gotta just giggle at the players and swallow it

No coop’d

By: Shining Base Path

Shining Base Path — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:34:15 +0000

The first foul just should not have been called at all. Wasn’t it the first FT of 2? Not a 1and 1 so there was no rebound to fight for. Gotta just giggle at the players and swallow it

By: coastalteacher

coastalteacher — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:37:44 +0000

One of the rare circumstances where every decision was right, and everything continued to result in FUBAR.

Up three with five seconds to go while defending? Gotta foul.
Referee’s call about the dead ball flagrant? By the book.
Foul immediately when down one with 5 seconds to go. (Oops)
Throw the ball towards the hoop when you KNOW the defenders have to foul.
Express outrage when the referee makes the appropriate but rarely called ‘fouled while in the shooting motion from 52 feet away-call’. Double techinal

I’ll drink to that.

By: paulsonj72

paulsonj72 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:44:17 +0000

How do you justify calling the 1st technical?
It was a dead ball and by rule a personal fould can not be called when the ball is dead. So the shove was a bit too much to ignore so a dead ball contact technical HAD to be called

By: paulsonj72

paulsonj72 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:12:24 +0000

Flagrant 1 (intentional foul) would be the correct call, in my opinion. You can tell the ref working the game was either a) in shock that this occurred or b) unsure as to what to call. After he raises his hand with the whistle, there is an awkward pause before he gives the signal.
Ball is dead at this point once clearly through the basket. Any foul called after that point must be either technical/intentional/flagrant.

Actuallt the 1st T was the right call. Once a free throw is made limke in this situation the ball is dead. You cannot have a personal foul during a dead ball situation. Therefore the only avaliable call is a dead ball T and since there was contact it became a dead ball Contact T which meant two free throws for the offended team and the abll

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:57:05 +0000

The longest 15 minutes in sports is the last 90 seconds of a basketball game.

By: Roethlishotdog

Roethlishotdog — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:23:51 +0000

Another question – aren’t technical/possibly flagrant fouls reviewable at the NCAA level? Couldn’t they have corrected this? Did they even go to the monitor?

By: José Pippen

José Pippen — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:23:28 +0000

How do you justify calling the 1st technical?

By: Roethlishotdog

Roethlishotdog — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:22:09 +0000

which is why the Richmond coach then lost his top.

I thought he lost it when they, after Richmond was forced to foul, they deemed the Charlotte player in the act of shooting and gave him 3 shots? Maybe the article I read was wrong.

By: MP III

MP III — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:21:12 +0000

Marcus Spears cut by Cowboys.

we landed on the moon.

By: starkweather

starkweather — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:18:25 +0000

At least Richmond had that one awesome game where they beat Syracuse as a 15 seed. I would just coast on that if I were them.

By: Jason Lisk

Jason Lisk — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:16:01 +0000

Yes, Roeth, I think that is right. Flagrant 1 would have meant the player fouled would have had to shoot (50% free throw shooter) which is why the Richmond coach then lost his top.

By: Roethlishotdog

Roethlishotdog — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:14:11 +0000

The ref signaled a technical. It could have been called a personal foul instead – in fact, I would say probably should have.

Flagrant 1 (intentional foul) would be the correct call, in my opinion. You can tell the ref working the game was either a) in shock that this occurred or b) unsure as to what to call. After he raises his hand with the whistle, there is an awkward pause before he gives the signal.

Ball is dead at this point once clearly through the basket. Any foul called after that point must be either technical/intentional/flagrant.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:14:07 +0000

Also, this ending reminds me of a West Virginia Conference game I covered years ago. University of Charleston down by 12 with 20 seconds left, hits four 3s to tie it and ends up winning in OT.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:11:37 +0000

It bugs me that UNC Charlotte markets itself as “Charlotte” for sports purposes. UNC Asheville doesn’t call itself “Asheville” and UNC Wilmington doesn’t call itself “Wilmington,” you pinheads.

/ Not sure about UNC Pembroke

By: KC Resident

KC Resident — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:11:33 +0000

McLemore on fire. I think. The damn ESPN 3 feed is really blurry at work.

By: ButtersBC

ButtersBC — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:07:41 +0000

The implication being that he looks like Dorn or an actual Klingon?

Go check out his hairline, it’s perfect

By: KC Resident

KC Resident — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:06:01 +0000

That’s how you call a basketball game.

By: Nada

Nada — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:04:40 +0000

They now rank highly in the “coaches that look like a Klingon” category as well

The implication being that he looks like Dorn or an actual Klingon?