Uni @ Cu

[bigticket]

if the mvc wants to be considered a "major" conference, then they need to get control of the officials. i cant stand to watch another mvc game..

seriously, anyone try and watch a non-uni game. you here and see the same thing..

the home crowd booos constantly, the coaches *****, the players have no idea what will be called. i know it happens everywhere, however, this year in the mvc, consistent calls have been non-existent.

the officials need to get control early and make a statement..

just my 2 cents

[Newsbreaker]

When a drug addict has soiled himself, fallen in the gutter, lit himself on fire, lost his job, been shot at by his lady, and spit on by his dog...in other words, when they've hit rock bottom, then they can start to get better.

We're about 5 days away from that.

[jman2004]

Yeah, and with two minutes to go in the game, down by 8, we throw in the towel and start jacking threes.

Oh well. I'll still cheer, but I'm through being surprised.

[Blue42]

I'd have to agree that UNI got treated pretty poorly by the stripe shirts tonight. The palming call on McKowen was a blatant make-up call. Koch was physically assaulted on a lob that wasn't called. Then there was the slap on the backboard that wasn't called goal tending. They didn't get any help there at all.

[jman2004]

Tonight's collapse had NOTHING to do with the officials, but I am also getting tired of seeing very inconsistent calls all over the place.

[jman2004]

Carrying is a point of emphasis this year. It's going to be called at least once or twice in a game. It's so stupid because it's the type of play that you can't possibly watch for all the time. If you want to get nit-picky and consistent, watch the tape back and I'll bet you could point out 35 times at least that same thing happened tonight.

But once again, the amazingly inconsistent officials that are the Valley's own, wait to call it on Brooks on a meaningless play with under 4 minutes of play. Just stupid. But hey, I guess they have to keep Dana Altman happy.

[Newsbreaker]

We didn't score a FG in the last 7 or 8 minutes.

*****ing about the officials is like smoking 9 packs a day, then screaming about 2nd hand smoke when you get cancer.

[merkpanthers]

We didn't have anyone that matched up with Porter tonight. Down the stretch he killed us and Viet couldn't do anything to stop him. Jake really needed to call a timeout to stop that run instead he waited for the media timeout and that was just bad. The starters also played much better tonight, but Jake still had the subs in there at times and I was really confussed about that. However, Jake gets paid the big bucks to make those decisions. We just can't play 40 minutes of basketball right now. Stout had a decent game, but Koch had his best game of the year tonight. It's too bad that Viet or Brown won't step up and play some good basketball for this team because it's like 4 against 5 out there. We really should go with McKowen, Josten, Koch, Stout and Coleman. Well now we HAVE to beat Bradley to avoid the play-in game for the Valley Tournament.

[Newsbreaker]

Merk, I'd love to see us play 35 minutes at this point.

[merkpanthers]

McKowen should NEVER throw that lob pass and he throws it all the time. It gets picked 50% of the time. He throws it on inbounds and to get it to the post and everyone can see it coming. That's just a horrible pass that he souldn't ever be passing. Throw a nice, crisp pass every single time!!!

[bigticket]

this was a game UNI could of had. every close game there is going to be call here and there that woulda, coulda, shoulda...

my main point is I personally am sick and tired of watching MVC basketball simply based on the officiating.. whether it be WSU vs Bradley, Drake vs CRE, SIU especially, etc... it is the same inconsistent officiating theme.... poor calls, no early calls to create some sort of flow.

for me, its not fun to watch anymore. of course, MSU vs Michigan wasn't a thing of beauty.

by the way, Coleman, Stout, Egleseder/Koch HAVE to play at same time this year! these games are not 70-80 pt barn burners... we have no 3 man, lets try Coleman/Koch at 3.. stick 'em in a zone and see what they can do

[PantherHawk]

i would like to see a BIG line-up. Our guards cannot hit. I thought UNI played okay tonight, still got some kinks to work out. I just don't understand viet not playing D, he got burnt over and over. Also Jordan wasnt in there in the second half was he? It is a tough loss, but when you don't make a basket for 7:00 min its hard to beat anyone. hopefully we find out shot in St. Louis and win the dang tourny. I hope the boys get rested and play well against Nevada!

[jman2004]

I've never seen a team WANT to play man to man defense and be so poor at it.

There was one play where I think it was Porter that got a wide open layup from a pass from the post and Brown (who was guarding him) was standing out of bounds looking at the ref like he had been pushed out of the play. I catch Brown being lazy on defense quite a bit.

[OhNewby]

The #3 spot is the key! Brown and Viet killed us tonight. I really thought going into the year Brown might be our best player, wow, was I wrong.

[jman2004]

I wonder if our shooting cold streak is more of a reality than we thought it was. I'm wondering if our hot shooting earlier in the year was a fluke. This team is broke from the outside.

4-6 from threes in the first half, I think 1-8 in the second (granted there were a few hail marys in there).

Much better though not forcing the three ball tonight. And I was pleased with the free throw shooting.