Ok What was Kriner doing dunking at end of game.
- Thread starter youflog1hawk
- Start date
Indeed.
When everyone's just waiting the clock out, it's bush-league and poor sportsmanship.
If everyone was playing hard to the end, that'd be different.
why would anyone expect us to know what to do in a situation in which we rarely find ourselves...?
When you're up by twenty or more and there is less than 1 minute to go and you're at the foul line, do you miss on purpose? So what if you get beat by 16 or 20. Just move on...Anyway, it was bad refereeing that cost UConn
They were all over our guys up top which is why Kriener ended up with the ball. I love the play. UConn can suck it.
Exactly, I was confused watching the UConn guards hounding us up top, when they knew our intent was to dribble out and hand the ball to the ref. Unfortunately, their bigs weren’t on the same page. Team has to be all-in our all-out. That’s on their ball hawking guards trying to get a turnover and quick score in meaningless seconds.
I liked our prescriptive response.
I see your point there too. I don't love the play, but I think people over-react to this kind of stuff.
I wonder what those defending the dunk would have said if Iowa was on the receiving end of it?
A truly classless act, but I’m glad Fran and Ryan have both shown class by apologizing.
A truly classless act, but I’m glad Fran and Ryan have both shown class by apologizing.
It wasn't a big deal that Ryan did it, and it wouldn't have been a big deal if our opponent did it.
Really can't believe some people take little shit like that so seriously.
Seriously.
People have really turned into a bunch of sensitive pussies.
For so much crap that happens. People gotta cry about EVERYTHING.
I wouldn't care because I'm not a cry baby wiener that gets his feelings hurt so easily.
Did you watch the Saints vs Eagles football game today. Little over minute left and New Orleans up 40 + points. Eagles were driving and NO all out blitzed and crushed Wentz. I’m sure you would feel this was “classless”. I think it was Troy Aikmen who said “if they are going to try to score, the defense should try to stop them”. Now had Wentz been taking a knee and NO blitzed and smashed him it’s a different story. UConn was blitzing when Iowa was trying to take a knee.
I'd suggest going back and re-watching the last 30 seconds. UCONN's players were not "all over our guys up top." Not even close. They were not pressing; they were not going for the ball. The player "guarding" (and that is used loosely) wasn't doing anything other than standing next to Bohannon as the clocked ticked towards zero. They had backed away. Kriener gave a hand gesture to call for the ball and Bohannon fed it to him. Completely unchallenged.
Personally, I don't have a big problem one way or the other with what Kreiner did. But . . . to claim that he did it because UCONN continued to "be all over our guys" is pure fiction.
It wasn't an elbow. As Kreiner jogged towards the opposite end of the court after dunking the ball, the UCONN player threw his right shoulder into him. The replay video on ESPN (you can watch it on ESPN 3 if you have a cable subscription - just search "Iowa") at 1:47:40 of the 1:48:28 video shows the UCONN player throwing his shoulder at Kriener just above the NBA three point line.
"Hounding?" Fiction. UCONN guards were walking around. If you think that was "hounding," you must have loved Iowa's defensive effort last year.
Call it like it is. Iowa added an exclamation point at the end of the game when UCONN wasn't trying.
