I love this so much. We are truly the Leaders and the Best over here.
So if the ball is 9.5", that's a 4.25" radius, and the ball could definitely be below the rim. Nice work. My biggest beef is really with this inane rule. Who came up with it? And how are officials supposed to catch that in real time? Makes no sense to me.
And just because I'm also an engineer, I can't let this go without mentioning that i disagree about where the ball actually hit the backboard. But like I said, let's just get rid of that rule because this is stupid
I still think you're over thinking it. Is it actually possible for the ball to hit the front of the backboard while entirely below the rim? Maybe I need to go to the park and investigate :)
On the goaltending call, the internet has gone off the deep end looking for a justification. Part of the ball was clearly above the rim, so this was just an easy missed call. Here's the play: Missed Goaltending.mov (video) 5
There was another officiating mistake that cost Michigan points though. Franz' block on Penn State's second-to-last possession resulted in an inadvertent whistle. Without the whistle, Brooks was wide open for a transition dunk.
On the foul limit, I'm good with increasing the limit to 6. I'd also be in favor of no longer counting offensive fouls as personals. Charge calls are some of the most subjective, and they result in a turnover, which is already a huge penalty.
One other easy change would be to add to the foul limit in overtime. If a player hasn't fouled out, they should be allowed an extra foul in OT (and in 3OT, 5OT, etc).
I'm preaching to the choir, but don't we want to see the best players at the end of the game? No other sport has this type of limitation unless a player is ejected.
On Teske's at-rim defense, it's clearly a coaching decision because he would not have done that last year. My guess: our coaches don't trust the refs to call verticality correctly and they want to keep him out of foul trouble. It also helps with rebounding.
Personally I'd rather unleash him, as he did a great job staying vertical last year. But this seems to be working well enough!
I was worried about Michigan facing a zone in this game too, but I'm feeling pretty good after seeing this on UMHoops:
"Northwestern switched its defense to a matchup zone in a mid-season act of desperation last year, but Chris Collins has gone back to strictly man-to-man. Synergy Sports has logged 534 plays of man defense and 3 plays of zone defense."
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I love this so much. We are truly the Leaders and the Best over here.
So if the ball is 9.5", that's a 4.25" radius, and the ball could definitely be below the rim. Nice work. My biggest beef is really with this inane rule. Who came up with it? And how are officials supposed to catch that in real time? Makes no sense to me.
And just because I'm also an engineer, I can't let this go without mentioning that i disagree about where the ball actually hit the backboard. But like I said, let's just get rid of that rule because this is stupid
I still think you're over thinking it. Is it actually possible for the ball to hit the front of the backboard while entirely below the rim? Maybe I need to go to the park and investigate :)
On the goaltending call, the internet has gone off the deep end looking for a justification. Part of the ball was clearly above the rim, so this was just an easy missed call. Here's the play: Missed Goaltending.mov (video) 5
There was another officiating mistake that cost Michigan points though. Franz' block on Penn State's second-to-last possession resulted in an inadvertent whistle. Without the whistle, Brooks was wide open for a transition dunk.
Is it just me or does Dickenson look like a Marc Gasol clone out there?
On the foul limit, I'm good with increasing the limit to 6. I'd also be in favor of no longer counting offensive fouls as personals. Charge calls are some of the most subjective, and they result in a turnover, which is already a huge penalty.
One other easy change would be to add to the foul limit in overtime. If a player hasn't fouled out, they should be allowed an extra foul in OT (and in 3OT, 5OT, etc).
I'm preaching to the choir, but don't we want to see the best players at the end of the game? No other sport has this type of limitation unless a player is ejected.
I love this idea. Maybe if this strategy gains enough traction they will finally do away with the idiotic one-and-one rule all together
On Teske's at-rim defense, it's clearly a coaching decision because he would not have done that last year. My guess: our coaches don't trust the refs to call verticality correctly and they want to keep him out of foul trouble. It also helps with rebounding.
Personally I'd rather unleash him, as he did a great job staying vertical last year. But this seems to be working well enough!
I heard he fell off the rim after a nasty dunk in pratice
I was worried about Michigan facing a zone in this game too, but I'm feeling pretty good after seeing this on UMHoops:
"Northwestern switched its defense to a matchup zone in a mid-season act of desperation last year, but Chris Collins has gone back to strictly man-to-man. Synergy Sports has logged 534 plays of man defense and 3 plays of zone defense."
Also Kansas needed overtime to beat Stanford at home. They might drop a bit too
According to the UMHoops preview, Purdue plays "almost exclusively man-to-man," which would seem to bode well for Michigan.
I've been looking forward to the J-Mo Hulk Mode gif ever since the moment it happened. Thank you.
You can tell the picture in this post is from the VCU game because GR3 is wearing #12