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#10 Iowa St +6.5 vs #2 tOSU (ov/un 141.5) Sun 12:15 CBS

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Oh JFC. Let's sit here and micro-analyze the charge/block call for an hour in the studio. Maybe if you guys didn't have a half hour between games you wouldn't have to argue about one call for such a needlessly long time.

Get over it. It's a tough call for any ref to make.
 
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TooTallMenardo;2319922; said:
What call is Chuck talking about?

Nevermind, he's clearly sour grapes. There were terrible calls throughout the game, Chuck.
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Bucky32;2319955; said:
Oh JFC. Let's sit here and micro-analyze the charge/block call for an hour in the studio. Maybe if you guys didn't have a half hour between games you wouldn't have to argue about one call for such a needlessly long time.

Get over it. It's a tough call for any ref to make.
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Exactly. There was at least 2-3 occasions where the refs idiotically put ISU on the line. What about those points that "never" should have been? Don't hear Barkley complain about those.
 
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The entire game is officiated in a manner that favors the finesse shooting team, which also gets a bunch of questionable calls throughout the game to keep things close, and a media chump claims that OSU only won because of a close, but correct, call at the end. Well, the last time this sort of thing happened, Brent Musberger ended up telling Woody Hayes that he could "rest easy." Here's to history repeating itself, and the haters sucking on their thumbs . . . after they pull them out of their rears.

Also, what part of outside the little semicircle do these fuckhorns not comprehend?

I was kind of down on this team for much of the year, but in a year when nobody's great, I'm starting to get that same calm feeling of inevitability that I got in 2002 post-Holy Buckeye.

Finally, it saddens me that Clark, after many years as a good announcer, is now following the Herbstreit model of going past objectivity to give the other team the benefit of favorable interpretation on nearly every close play.
 
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scott91575;2319871; said:
and totally redeems himself!!!!!
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OhioState001;2319925; said:
Craft has some balls for waving off Thomas at the end as well. I wonder if he wanted that redemption for the missed free throws.
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Oh yeah...almost like he made up his mind he was going to shoot that from the switch. And his reaction was stone cold...almost like he was still mad at himself for the earlier mistakes. Just love this kid.

Major props today to Q for stepping up at the right time. I love that this team just keeps growing. Bring on the Sweet 16!
 
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Bucky Katt;2319855; said:
Happy thoughts.
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Happier thoughts.
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OHSportsFan;2319894; said:
I'm pregnant.

It's yours, Aaron.
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That cheating bastard. We may have to start calling him Shawn Kemp.
 
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billmac91 said:
Love the play action on that final play. Basketball is such a game of timing, strategy, and inches.

If you go back and watch the replay, some fo the cool "inside" action on that play included:

Going small-ball, leaving Iowa State center guarding LaQuinton Ross. Early in the play, Q came over to set the pick and roll, which was for nothing other than forcing the ISU switch....and it worked. When Q came up with 20 seconds to set that screen, everyone knew the play wasn't going to start, it was just about getting the match-up we wanted.

Once Aaron got the match-up he wanted, if you watch the play, we set-up a staggerred screen to th etop of the key for DeShaun. That screen inititaed too quickly however. If you watch the replay, Aaron pretty much desregards DT on the open look, but it isn't because of the mismatch, IMO. DT left too quickly. If DT takes that shot and misses, it leaves ISU with 4 seconds which was the worst possible scenario for Ohio State.

I think Aaron is just super heady and decided he'd either win the game or it'd go to overtime. Giving the ball to DT was potentially losing the game in that moment just because of ot not being timed well enough.
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Analysis right there, folks.

Gotta spread rep.
 
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I actually like Barkely a lot...I don't agree with this opinion but at least I know it's how he actually feels vs. some external agenda like ESPN has to drum up emotion.

It was a bad call. And the last rebound was 50/50 on who it went out on. So he isn't technically wrong. I just agree more with Greg Anthony who I think understands the entire game was influenced with bad calls and that's what made it close to begin with.

I really appreciate Barkely's take on the high-elbow rule, and some of these flagrant fouls that get called. I'm not sure why college basketball felt they had a problem with elbows or intentional fouls, but some of these technicals being handed out are flat out embarrassing. I appreciate his honesty.
 
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