Live Game Thread: Gonzaga at San Francisco

I can’t find it on justin.tv, but i’ll keep trying

Bobby Bouche baby!

I don’t know if I can handle announcers who aren’t unabashedly pro-Zag

He has really started to develop a great runner in traffic, now if that three ball would just be a little more consistent.

Same ol story. Gotta protect the ball. Most of these turnovers haven’t even been forced. Just bad passing

It looks like they are fouling a lot, tough to hang onto the ball with defenders hanging onto your arms

Is the worst officiating I’ve seen in awhile. Could not be more one sided

I haven’t seen him give that much flack to the refs in a while

Unreal.

Baby Stockton suck 15 turnovers now in 3 games
Zags just need to settle down

get him a jersey

Making shit happen!!!

why do you disappear on the road?

come on man

only good things will happen

nobody was guarding Hart

Hart is going to nail a clutch 3

the fate of the game rests on your shoulders

may be play of the game

taking the game over right now

with his bullshit post moves

should have been in, on the game’s last possession. He is our best scorer

the WCC would suffer so much if GU left

How come the team that presses the whole game had 6 less fouls called on it the whole game? Absolute bullshit. I hope few just trashes the refs. It’s worth whatever fines he would get

How can the refs in this gym be so consistently bad?

Zags still played pretty poorly, too many TO’s (although many of them because USF was allowed to play patty cakes with our guards arms) but we have to be stronger with the ball. Pangos also did another disappearing act for about the middle 30 minutes, we should have won this game – I’d hate to think it was the refs that finally had the final say in Gonzaga’s conference run – but that would actually be appropriate considering the horse shit we’ve seen in some of these high school gyms over the last few years.

It’s funny, cause until this game I was thinking about how much better the refs had been this year.

Its called turnovers….We were horrible with the ball tonight, thats why we lost…not the refs.

Also shit shot selection at the end, lets pass up makable shots for shit ones..

SF played great, I hate to say that, they came out and punched us in the mouth…same scenario the last 3 years…a circuit shot on the last possesion, all to familiar.

Scenario- A down SM team comes into SF next week and loses…and we beat BYU at home..and finish off @ San Diego…still hope…SM is down and without Holt, San Fran is playing good.

Lets atleast get a 2 seed…thats the most important thing right now..forget this one and Beat BYU…we need that double bye.

I know I am. I can’t wait to get bounced by Kentucky in Louisville!

why didn’t Dower get more minutes? Few should be able to play Harris Dower and Sacre at the same time. Dower is the best scorer we have.

Have played most every sport at every level and still compete in USTA – if calls are going against you, it removes a level playing field and is negative to your psyche. I’m sure every player on the Zags felt the refs were taking the game away from them – I watched Stocks and Pangos get ran over completely and the refs just let it go. Many points made in the above posts pointed out how seemingly one-sided they were in much of the game. Mikesequim – have you ever been in a situation where the team just seemed shell-shocked when one call after another was so bad that you felt the refs were not even watching the same game?? You CAN’T honestly say that the refs didn’t have this effect on a team. Coaching can do very little to instill faith in the players that “we can overcome” this lack of decent officiating. Have you ever heard the word “bush-league” used much – In high school baseball you would get a plate umpire (on the road) that couldn’t even see a good fastball or know didn’t know the stike-zone! Smaller towns had teams, coaches and refs that were Bush-league and bad calls and cheap play could be enough of an obstacle.

The refs weren’t that bad last night maybe, but they were “bush” and it played to the advantage of USF. Last night, USF had such a distinct advantage – the Zags went into a shell as they didn’t dare play aggressive – offensively or defensively (IMO). Didn’t help that Few didn’t come more prepared to get this game in hand with what the coaching staff had to expect from USF and the refs. I HATE a poorly refereed game – it is totally unfair for the better team and makes an average team better able have an advantage or momentum…or lack of momentum for the Zags (who are much better when playing a bit of a tail-wind…but not so much a head-wind). Our small stature guards don’t help us either – Zags need guards as big as Bell and larger to play at the physical level needed at this level. If they’re not bigger, they need to be as quick as lightning with crazy athletic ability. Pangos and Stocks don’t have either of those things going for them – that’s a disadvantage and hurts us many times.

First on the press…you’ve got to pass through it. Unfortunately, Stockton has a hard time being able to pass over or around the bigger guards. The teams that are able to pass up through a press are often rewarded with an easy basket under the bucket…after a couple of those, the press goes away.

After Green and Williams began blowing by our defenders, I liked that Few made an adjustment and had a big come out and double team them – it worked the first couple times, but USF adjusted. Then we brought in Hart to slow those guys down – and having that defensive presence was effective. (the buckets those guys made at the end – they earned those!)

So my Coaching question – aided by hindsight I know – why didn’t we see Keita in this game? He has a good handle, bigger than most guards (can pass over the top), is just as fast, and is another defensive presence equal to Hart.

Leave the refs out of this…the turnovers and our inability to convert in the final 90 seconds is why we lost this game.