Butterfly Effect - UVA/ISU

[clonedlion]

I usually sit back and read, but I would like to add something regarding last night's game. A lot of rhetoric is centered around a couple facts: Fouls were atrocious on Niang and UVA was the better team and were going to win anyways based on the first half.

I would suggest that this is a part of college basketball. It is a trend to see one team go up by double digits, only to have the other team go on a run. Miami/Wichita St, OU/VCU and Purdue/ARK LR are all tournament examples. During season, Tech came back on us, we can back on IA. The point is each outcome is different. Sometimes the team with the lead holds on, sometimes they don't.

I think UVA had a clear advantage on the glass like most teams ISU has faced and they did come out on fire in the first half, but this is why they play two halves.To say UVA was automatically better and would win anyways is a discredit to ISU. They can play and beat anybody in the country.

Given that information, ISU was on a run and cut it to 7 with plenty of time to go. We don't know how everything would have changed if they didn't call his fourth on that terrible call, but maybe he gets called the next def possession. But, to take away the leader of a team that went on a run like so many teams do and cut ISU down at the knees is not in the spirit of the game. Would we have won if they played on? Who knows, but I can't sit here and listen to, "UVA would have won anyways" given all the examples listed above. We all would have wanted to see it play out and Niang and the kids definitely deserved that chance.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

I usually sit back and read, but I would like to add something regarding last night's game. A lot of rhetoric is centered around a couple facts: Fouls were atrocious on Niang and UVA was the better team and were going to win anyways based on the first half.

I would suggest that this is a part of college basketball. It is a trend to see one team go up by double digits, only to have the other team go on a run. Miami/Wichita St, OU/VCU and Purdue/ARK LR are all tournament examples. During season, Tech came back on us, we can back on IA. The point is each outcome is different. Sometimes the team with the lead holds on, sometimes they don't.

I think UVA had a clear advantage on the glass like most teams ISU has faced and they did come out on fire in the first half, but this is why they play two halves.To say UVA was automatically better and would win anyways is a discredit to ISU. They can play and beat anybody in the country.

Given that information, ISU was on a run and cut it to 7 with plenty of time to go. We don't know how everything would have changed if they didn't call his fourth on that terrible call, but maybe he gets called the next def possession. But, to take away the leader of a team that went on a run like so many teams do and cut ISU down at the knees is not in the spirit of the game. Would we have won if they played on? Who knows, but I can't sit here and listen to, "UVA would have won anyways" given all the examples listed above. We all would have wanted to see it play out and Niang and the kids definitely deserved that chance.

Don't throw sloppy moving screens right in front of the ref. Rebound the ball. That would have done more for us than Georges not getting that 4th foul. Could we beat Virginia? Sure if we shot out of our mind and some fouls go the other way. That's pretty much every game in history though. Move on, I'm proud of our team. Georges will make some money here soon.

 

[clonedlion]

I believe we are agreeing. My point is that ISU could have won that game despite the flaws such as rebounding. I was posting to disagree with the notion that UVA automatically would have won because of the first half. Bottom line, they cut the lead to 7 with plenty of time to make it a game and possibly win.

I do agree with the notion that those calls against Niang were flawed and played a role in not giving them the opportunity to make it a close game.

 

[NoCreativity]

Don't throw sloppy moving screens right in front of the ref. Rebound the ball. That would have done more for us than Georges not getting that 4th foul. Could we beat Virginia? Sure if we shot out of our mind and some fouls go the other way. That's pretty much every game in history though. Move on, I'm proud of our team. Georges will make some money here soon.

We could have easily beaten Virginia, missed free throws, Virginia shooting out of their minds in the first half, Niangs bs 4th foul, not to mention the completely ridiculous 3 point plays they got twice in the first half where our guy didnt touch him. When you are playing a team that talented all it takes is a couple plays to swing the game the other way.

Its just a shame we'll never get to see what might have happened had the refs decided not to relegate Niang to the bench. We might not have won anyways but we had all the momentum, crowd was going crazy, and we had just cut it to 7.