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Ejection

A few seconds before the punch, Josh was moving towards the basket and the utah defender stood his ground and kind of gave Josh a hard shot with the body; Josh looked to the refs for a call, nothing called, so josh continued to move and gave the utah defender the punch to the stomach and the utah defender reacted by shoving Josh. Frustrating no call on the first move by the Utah defender but Josh has got to be smarter next time around.

Having said that, Josh played a hell of a game--I mean a hell of a game. He was the most dynamic player out there. Great mid-range pull ups, athletic drives to the hoop with composed finishes, and dribble-drive penetrations with assists after d collapses--and he played extremely well defensively. A force. We get that from him and we are tough to beat against anyone in the MWC.
 
Another thing. I don't know if the refs look for the punch earlier on the replay sequence if the Utah defender hadn't told the ref that Josh had punched him as he was walking back to the Utah bench.
 
tweaked said:
A few seconds before the punch, Josh was moving towards the basket and the utah defender stood his ground and kind of gave Josh a hard shot with the body; Josh looked to the refs for a call, nothing called, so josh continued to move and gave the utah defender the punch to the stomach and the utah defender reacted by shoving Josh. Frustrating no call on the first move by the Utah defender but Josh has got to be smarter next time around.

Having said that, Josh played a hell of a game--I mean a hell of a game. He was the most dynamic player out there. Great mid-range pull ups, athletic drives to the hoop with composed finishes, and dribble-drive penetrations with assists after d collapses--and he played extremely well defensively. A force. We get that from him and we are tough to beat against anyone in the MWC.
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That was such BS. The dude gave Josh a shot, plain as day. You could see it on Josh's face that he was shocked there was no call, then his face was consumed with Pissed-ness. The retaliation was obviously on its way....
 
Agreed, a call should've been made. Next time Josh just has to be smarter, a hard check, body shot, to retaliate ... just don't throw a punch.
 
It doesn't matter if you are the best player in the country, if you can't control your mental state (do stupid little stuff like this) then you're going to sit home and watch it on tv instead of being smart and being part of the game.

If your coach can't trust you to be smart then you become a liability.
 
I hope the MWC officials (especially the one that critiques the officials) look at video of this game to see what was going on in this game that the refs were not calling which precipitated what got Josh ejected (but not the USU player). Not saying Josh was not in the wrong and didn't deserve to be ejected, but the officiating in this game was some of the worst I have seen in a long time.
 
ItSucksToBeACSURam said:
tweaked said:
A few seconds before the punch, Josh was moving towards the basket and the utah defender stood his ground and kind of gave Josh a hard shot with the body; Josh looked to the refs for a call, nothing called, so josh continued to move and gave the utah defender the punch to the stomach and the utah defender reacted by shoving Josh. Frustrating no call on the first move by the Utah defender but Josh has got to be smarter next time around.

Having said that, Josh played a hell of a game--I mean a hell of a game. He was the most dynamic player out there. Great mid-range pull ups, athletic drives to the hoop with composed finishes, and dribble-drive penetrations with assists after d collapses--and he played extremely well defensively. A force. We get that from him and we are tough to beat against anyone in the MWC.
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That was such BS. The dude gave Josh a shot, plain as day. You could see it on Josh's face that he was shocked there was no call, then his face was consumed with Pissed-ness. The retaliation was obviously on its way....
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The refs let this one get out of control by swallowing their whistles. The possession before Adams' altercation one of the Utah State post players had Cooke in a headlock and threw him down. No whistle. It was physical all night, but it kept getting worse and worse and the officials did nothing. I don't know who the official under the basket was, but he was watching for traveling and ONLY traveling the entire night. I don't think the guy took his eyes off of the players' feet the whole game.
 
WYO1016 said:
ItSucksToBeACSURam said:
tweaked said:
A few seconds before the punch, Josh was moving towards the basket and the utah defender stood his ground and kind of gave Josh a hard shot with the body; Josh looked to the refs for a call, nothing called, so josh continued to move and gave the utah defender the punch to the stomach and the utah defender reacted by shoving Josh. Frustrating no call on the first move by the Utah defender but Josh has got to be smarter next time around.

Having said that, Josh played a hell of a game--I mean a hell of a game. He was the most dynamic player out there. Great mid-range pull ups, athletic drives to the hoop with composed finishes, and dribble-drive penetrations with assists after d collapses--and he played extremely well defensively. A force. We get that from him and we are tough to beat against anyone in the MWC.
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That was such BS. The dude gave Josh a shot, plain as day. You could see it on Josh's face that he was shocked there was no call, then his face was consumed with Pissed-ness. The retaliation was obviously on its way....
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The refs let this one get out of control by swallowing their whistles. The possession before Adams' altercation one of the Utah State post players had Cooke in a headlock and threw him down. No whistle. It was physical all night, but it kept getting worse and worse and the officials did nothing. I don't know who the official under the basket was, but he was watching for traveling and ONLY traveling the entire night. I don't think the guy took his eyes off of the players' feet the whole game.
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Yep, you are talking about the old man on the crew.
 
Yep, the entire AA saw the mauling of DC on the previous play with nothing called. Those consecutive non-calls certainly established the context in which Josh lost it---but he still lost it. We need him not to lose it. One constant a MWC fan can count on is poor referees--I'm hoping that feeds in to any decision about Josh.
 
WYO1016 said:
ItSucksToBeACSURam said:
tweaked said:
A few seconds before the punch, Josh was moving towards the basket and the utah defender stood his ground and kind of gave Josh a hard shot with the body; Josh looked to the refs for a call, nothing called, so josh continued to move and gave the utah defender the punch to the stomach and the utah defender reacted by shoving Josh. Frustrating no call on the first move by the Utah defender but Josh has got to be smarter next time around.

Having said that, Josh played a hell of a game--I mean a hell of a game. He was the most dynamic player out there. Great mid-range pull ups, athletic drives to the hoop with composed finishes, and dribble-drive penetrations with assists after d collapses--and he played extremely well defensively. A force. We get that from him and we are tough to beat against anyone in the MWC.
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That was such BS. The dude gave Josh a shot, plain as day. You could see it on Josh's face that he was shocked there was no call, then his face was consumed with Pissed-ness. The retaliation was obviously on its way....
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The refs let this one get out of control by swallowing their whistles. The possession before Adams' altercation one of the Utah State post players had Cooke in a headlock and threw him down. No whistle. It was physical all night, but it kept getting worse and worse and the officials did nothing. I don't know who the official under the basket was, but he was watching for traveling and ONLY traveling the entire night. I don't think the guy took his eyes off of the players' feet the whole game.
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No kidding. I was thinking to myself that I couldn't remember the last time I saw that many traveling calls (on both teams). I am sure they were all correct, but 2/3 of those don't get called in most games.

Adams still screwed up though. I don't think it is worthy of a suspension, but the Flagrant 2/ejection was the right call in the game.
 
tweaked said:
Having said that, Josh played a hell of a game--I mean a hell of a game. He was the most dynamic player out there. Great mid-range pull ups, athletic drives to the hoop with composed finishes, and dribble-drive penetrations with assists after d collapses--and he played extremely well defensively. A force. We get that from him and we are tough to beat against anyone in the MWC.
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His best game as a Poke. Some of his passes were pretty much perfect, knifing down the lane and threading it between two defenders to a big man for a dunk. If he can consistently initiate offense in that manner, the Pokes will be very dangerous. Grabau doesn't have the quickness or the legitimate threat of a finish to collapse the defense like that off the dribble.

The other big thing yesterday was DC's play which was very encouraging. Pokes will really need his size and athleticism for this upcoming stretch against UNM, SDSU, UNLV. Can't run Granberry out there for 30 minutes against either Kirk or Bairstow (although possibly my favorite play yesterday was Granberry coming over and rejecting one of Shaw's attempts as he was going to the basket, despite a 6" height differential. Granberry might not be a high flyer, but he is more athletic than some give him credit for).
 
Worst thing about that ejection was he caused it with the acting job flying over the scorers table, Without that acting job they wouldn't have been inclined to review just a normal push and there just would have been a foul.

Second part of it he would have likely picked up MW PoW with that performance and he was an assist machine and it was his career breakout game. It's too bad that the refs let so much slide that it ended that way but more so that he sunk to that level.

Hopefully he learns from it, I'm pretty sure he will be sitting for UNM if not from the MWC likely from Shyatt for disciplinary actions because Shyatt doesn't take hat kind of attitude.
 
i saw him run thru the lane and that's when buttermaker stopped him dead in his tracks, josh looked extremely mad and it just continued to carry over, didn't see the actual punch, but he'll not play against the Lobos but that's ok, do what we can and move on
 
So like I said earlier, I don't think we beat NM with Adams anyways.
The team probably won't get blown out, and it will be a game where Adams will be thinking "If only I was there, we would have won", then for the UNLV game, he will probably have a chip on his shoulder trying to help the team.
 
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