Louisville Redux

[DC_Area_Panther]

I wasn't able to watch Louisville game. Clearly we played poorly in many areas inclusing FT shooting. Because of the score I couldn't bring myself to watch the ESPN replay--something I usually do when I can't watch a game live. That being said, some posters who saw the game mentioned--

1. Louisville playing physical defense throughout and Pitt not responding in kind as the primary cause of our poor offensive performance.
2. Bad officiating (mostly in favor of Louisville).

This leads me to ask whether the officiating for this game reverted to the game being called the way games were called in past years prior to the new "freedom of movement" emphasis? If so, did Louisville get away with hand checking, arm bars, etc? Did the Louisville approach mimic the old John Thompson teams mugging style that caused officials to back off on the whistle so as not to appear whistle happy?

Any opinions on this? Or, do I need to go suffer through the pain of watching the replay to decide for myself?

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Time for us to move on

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

Sorry SOUF--I understand you want to move on--but there is only a day or two before ESPN takes the Louisville game down from its replay list and I want to decide whether to endure the pain..

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

Seriously, don't watch it.
It was awful basketball from both teams for 30 minutes.

It was a rock fight...which Pitt flinched from .

 

[Pittx9]

I did the same. I was able to watch spurts of the game and when I turned it on late in the second half it all of a sudden was a blowout with Pitt having barely scored since I last was able to catch a glimpse. I decided to not even watch the full replay after seeing how terrible they looked in the last 5-10 minutes and just the fact they could not put points on the board.