Samme Givens

[Codytwo]

I'm just watching the UMass vs. Drexel game and I have two words........douche bag!

[ilovecats]

Re: Samme Givens

Drexel blew another 17 point lead in the second half and lost at home to umass. They out rebounded umass by 20 and still lost. Givens was once again in foul trouble the whole game. We were the only team that wasn't able to get him into trouble early in the game.

[panther-state]

Re: Samme Givens

We were the only team that wasn't able to get him into trouble early in the game.

Which is incredibly frustrating since on a good portion of his shots right around the basket he clearly lowered his shoulder into defenders and pushed them off in order to create space. Part of me wishes we had done a bit more to sell it as a foul but the other part of me is glad we have more integrity than that.

[JagsNCats]

Re: Samme Givens

For those of you that weren't at the Drexel game, here are some court side observations about Givens. As he was posting up, our defenders had a difficult time trying to get around him as he used his arms to reach back and hook the defender. When he did get the ball with his back to the basket, he hopped with both feet backwards into the defender before dribbling creating space. It's fair to say he travelled on about half of his possessions. He was very aggressive in creating contact with his arms, elbows into the defender going to the rim and the officials let it go and at times called us for the foul.

When Coach Jake pointed out these violations to the officials, it landed on deaf ears. In fact one ref told him to "quit begging.". I don't know how he keeps his cool.

Don't get me wrong, Givens is a nice player but he had a career game against us because he took advantage of how the game was being called .....or not being called. Some of this might have been evident on the broadcast but it was blatantly obvious sitting courtside.

[Panther'73]

Re: Samme Givens

I'm glad they lost last night -

[DWadle1983]

Re: Samme Givens

For those of you that weren't at the Drexel game, here are some court side observations about Givens. As he was posting up, our defenders had a difficult time trying to get around him as he used his arms to reach back and hook the defender. When he did get the ball with his back to the basket, he hopped with both feet backwards into the defender before dribbling creating space. It's fair to say he travelled on about half of his possessions. He was very aggressive in creating contact with his arms, elbows into the defender going to the rim and the officials let it go and at times called us for the foul.

When Coach Jake pointed out these violations to the officials, it landed on deaf ears. In fact one ref told him to "quit begging.". I don't know how he keeps his cool.

Don't get me wrong, Givens is a nice player but he had a career game against us because he took advantage of how the game was being called .....or not being called. Some of this might have been evident on the broadcast but it was blatantly obvious sitting courtside.

The announcers a couple times questioned the lack of offensive fouls being called.

[TheWhizzz]

Re: Samme Givens

Wahhh Wahhh Wahhh.... bad officiating comes along with the game.

[panther-state]

Re: Samme Givens

Wahhh Wahhh Wahhh.... bad officiating comes along with the game.

Or with 20 point smack downs according to Hawk fans

[TheWhizzz]

Re: Samme Givens

lol touche my friend