Charge of Block - what say you?

Submitted by AC1997 on

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?

Mr. Robot

April 7th, 2013 at 12:38 AM ^

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.

FreddieMercuryHayes

April 7th, 2013 at 12:41 AM ^

My opinion? Block. But there are a half dozen calls like that along a razor's edge in every game. One call never decides a game. I can only assume the only ones 'really' complaining about it are SU (legit) and Sparty (Lil brother complex). So to anyone who complains, I ask, shall we go through every film of every championship game team and dissect every call that could have gone the other way? Shall we put every call even in this game under the microscope? Grow up. SU only has them self to blame for not making shots. We have our self to blame for it even being close for not making shots as well and missing free throws.

artds

April 7th, 2013 at 12:42 AM ^

Probably a block, but the refs burned us on that no call when THJ went up for that dunk in the final minutes, so fuck em. What goes around comes around.

JHendo

April 7th, 2013 at 12:42 AM ^

I think a lot of calls could have gone one way or the other, and this is just one of many. It's absolutely ridiculous that ESPN has latched on to this play as if makes a difference. One other 50/50 call going our way earlier in the game, and this call could've been irrelevant. That being said, I personally think it should've been a no call, but refs seem to think all drives that end in contact must end in a foul.

Purkinje

April 7th, 2013 at 12:42 AM ^

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.)

Rawls NTR

April 7th, 2013 at 12:45 AM ^

But then again hardaway got fouled at the end without getting a call. So did Trey on a pull-up jumper in the lane. Too many plays in the game to focus on one just because it occurred with 0:20 left

Frequency

April 7th, 2013 at 12:46 AM ^

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.

A Lot of Milk

April 7th, 2013 at 12:47 AM ^

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...

jmblue

April 7th, 2013 at 1:02 AM ^

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.

 

TruBlue15

April 7th, 2013 at 12:48 AM ^

I say both sides had a lot they could complain about, but in the end we had five more points than they did, and we're playing for it all on Monday night

HarmonHowardWoodson

April 7th, 2013 at 12:48 AM ^

an argument could be made either way. I don't think anyone could watch it at full speed and say for a fact what the correct call was. whatever the ref called is the correct call because it is a judgement call.

Bosch

April 7th, 2013 at 12:51 AM ^

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.

 

southern_yankee

April 7th, 2013 at 2:02 AM ^

Yep. There is a huge and unfortunate misconception by many that a charge only occurs when the defender is stationary. Blasting through someone's chest is almost always a charge, regardless of whether ones feet are moving. You beat someone to a spot, you have a right to be there.

Bodogblog

April 7th, 2013 at 12:51 AM ^

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.

TruBluMich

April 7th, 2013 at 12:52 AM ^

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!!!!

The FannMan

April 7th, 2013 at 12:55 AM ^

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. 

WolverinesQC

April 7th, 2013 at 1:05 AM ^

I know most of us hate ESPN, but I especially think it's absolute crap that they showed the Boeheim post game interview for a half an hour and only showed Beilein for five minutes!

alanmfrench

April 7th, 2013 at 1:01 AM ^

You can dissect the entire game and find blown or missed calls either way. Bottom line, we scored more points. Kudos to the the play we got off the bench and once again.... Fuck them.

petered0518

April 7th, 2013 at 1:04 AM ^

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.

gsot21

April 7th, 2013 at 1:06 AM ^

My opinion is scoreboard bitch

With all this money in college basketball can we get or devlop some good refs.

Also if that was big ten refs, that time CJ Fair slap to Mitch's face would have been a 3 hour review sesh

SysMark

April 7th, 2013 at 1:05 AM ^

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.

Ventilator

April 7th, 2013 at 1:05 AM ^

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.