He is better than some of the other giant white guts that played in the NBA, but he will not be a starter I don't think. Once he gets more than 5 feet away from the basket he's toast. Purdue totally went away from their normal game today…zero ball movement, nobody cutting, barely any penetration. All they did was try and throw it into Eady. They played terribly, but moving on.
Travels, lane violations and the hook and holds.
Go back and watch the game in slo-mo and see if you think differently about the way the game was called. Tennessee plays a VERY aggressive defensive style of basketball, and every analyst (including the Tennessee ones) said that before the game. They said that if the refs call the game like they should that UT will rack up a ton of fouls. That is what happened
Edey had 1 foul and played almost 40 minutes. The game was called awful anyone can see that.
Curiously Purdue never fouls anybody. Well coached I guess.
Go back and watch the game and do it in slo-mo. I have zero doubt there were missed calls and missed travels and missed 3 second calls, but Eady gets mauled the whole game. He's an oaf and gangly and uncoordinated, but watch the game. The fouls did not keep Tennessee from scoring on the other end. They looked to Knect (31 shots) to win the game and it didn't work. UT has a lot of great players that were not given the chance in this game, same as Purdue, they both just went to the best player.
He was fouled alot I agree
No joke and the shoving rebounders out of the way
Yup mutiple times I thought the whistle was being blown because of the obvious walk but nope rack up another foul on the Goon
Go back in slo-mo and count the number of fouls TN was called for after Lurch had been in the lane for 6-8 seconds. The called a foul on TN after a walk even Ray Charles would have seen.
So by watching in slo mo how many fouls SHOULD have been called on big guy. No way he only committed 1 foul and the many 3 sec in lane no calls and no traveling called on him. Heard one comment of "he just has some incidental contact"
First it is football refs now basketball refs. The world is against UT.
Agree, Pals. It was still winnable. We left a lot out there, DK included. He missed a lot of mid range shots especially. ZZ never really turned it on offensively, or at least scoring wise. He still had what, 7 or 8 assists? But we still had a chance.
Welcome poor hunter. Luckily your favorite team plays em once in a blue moon.
What you are missing is transition points. On the rare occasion that Edey wasn't shooting freethrows, we were scoring transition points by pushing the ball down the court. Freethrows takes this opportunity away from our offense and gives them uncontested point opportunities, so absolutely the fouls took away from us on offense. 33 free throw attempts vs. 11. I did watch replays in slow motion. About half the fouls were bull. To say or believe that the refs were not a huge impact in the game is laughable.
