Charge of Block - what say you?
The CBS and ESPN talking heads seem to think that the Morgan charge was a block with Dick Vitale being the lone person who thinks it was a charge. What do you think?
I'm of the opinion that the refs have no clue how to make that call, it is now used as a crutch by many teams defensively (including Michigan), and that home teams get 75% of them. With that being said, I thought it was the right call. Morgan moved his feet slightly after the player left the ground, but he was there waiting when that guy drove into his chest and it didn't even really seem that close.
I think by the letter of the law it was probably a block, but the way it has been called all season that's probably a charge 80% of the time. Thoughts?
I think you can make the case either way, but what I felt ultimately made that a block was the guy make ZERO effort to twist to get to either side of Morgan even though he clearly should have known Morgan was likely going to beat him to that spot.
If he shifted at all and hit Morgan more to the side, that's a block or a no-call I think, but the way he proceeded to knowngly crash right into the middle of his chest I think sealed his fate.
Aaaahhh, proofreading's for the offseason. It was a charge.
A sham of a mockery of a charge of a block.
A 50/50 call went our way for the first time all god damned year. As others have said, full-speed it looked to me like a charge. Slow-mo, I learn towards block. Refs called charge, and charge it was. (Just like calls we've not liked at the end of games have gone the wrong way before in this season.)
in a 40 minute game, one play does not make the game. no matter how much you may want to discuss the impact of one play, its the compilation of every play and every minute that makes a difference. this call may go one way or another, but in the end Michigan wins.
I thought Morgan got there a split second late, but the fact that Triche was a little out of control made it easy to call the charge.
It sucked for me. I wanted to win without any bullshit like this. I honestly thought it was a block in slow-mo, charge in real time, and it kind of took away from my happiness when Morgan finally finished a dunk. But if we would've made our damn free throws --- wait, where the hell was Stauskas? He didn't play the second half, and he finished with 0 points... Sonofabitch must've been eating subs...
Charge - guy was way out of control.
And how many free whacks did they get on McGary's face?
Charge. Yeah, he moved slightly to the side, but that's OK - you don't have to be 100% stationary. You have to be in position, and outside of the circle, and he was.
Really do wish they would do away with charges. It would've been so much sweeter to see Morgan play D and swat away the layup...
Do away with charges?
Nah. Pretty sure every team would exploit that. When its a charge, its a charge.
Better yet: do away with layups. Only jumpshots. Uncontested jumpshots. Matter of fact, no defenders of any kind. Now THAT'S how you solve controversial foul calls!
I'll be honest, you confuse me.
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You can't do away with the charge call. How could anyone play defense if the offense is free to knock them down?
Officials need to be more consistent applying it, but it's an essential rule.
With that said, I can arbitrarily pick a number of questionable calls that, had they gone Michigan's way, would have made the block/charge irrelevant.
His chest was square to the shooter for about 5 seconds before he barreled into him. He is allowed to move laterally to maintain legal guarding position.
http://davehallofficiating.com/understanding-legal-guarding-position
Triche himself just said in the presser that he should have pulled up and shot or passed, because he saw Morgan there. He said if it wasn't a charge, it should have been a no-call. Given LeVert picked up the rebound, no effect on the game.
I want to discuss the ~20+ other blocks Syracuse made at Mid-Court or ecspecially on the baseline where they were actually slapping guys or shoving them out of bounds. Those weren't called.
Why does it seem that a close call at the end of the game, is always deemed to decide the game. If Syracuse was not allowed to push, shove, slap, hack and what ever you want to call what they did to McGary's face. This game isn't even close enough for that call to matter. If were going to discuss officiating then, discuss every bad call or no call. Otherwise whats it matter?
In general the officiating was horrible the whole game, I don't mind no calls or physical play, but if your going to call it, be consistant.
GO BLUE!!!!
Other than the strike zone in baseball, the charge/block call is the most subjective in sports. The bottom line, it was a charge b/c the ref thought it was.
on both of em. Eject everyone
Jim Boeheim makes much better TV than Beilein. Did you see his presser? It was pretty fantastic as far as pressers go
Boeheim has time to spend talking to ESPN.
Beilein is prepping for the national championship game......
The dumbest thing about the whole situation is that the guy was out of control, was no where close to making a basket, and we got the rebound.
Do I think it was a charge? No. Would it have been a hilarious injustice to bail out a terrible offensive play based on an extremely subjective call? Most definitely.
I really wish the refs just didn't call anything because then there would be no controversy and the outcome would be the same. I don't see why they feel the need to call a foul one way or the other every time a guy drives to the basket.
Would you now like to got back and re-call every close play in the game? Come on, that's for the losers.
For the record it was a charge - check the game stats.
Well, Tim was fouled on that fast break attempt. Also, I thought I saw Trey get pushed on a play where one of their players got an O-rebound and converted. The Triche 3-point-play was a questionable foul as well. These plays happened within the last five or so minutes. Quite ignorant to focus more on a foul just because it happened a couple minutes later in the game. They can't take anything away from this win, we earned it.