Shockers vs Redbirds in game thread

[ShoxCO94]

I didn't have an issue with the call. Hatch did end up at his feet and the player appeared to have to try and step over him as Graham slid into his feet. If that causes an issue then it should be a blocking foul on Hatch. It's one of those fouls you hate to call but in some cases you have to.

Shortly there after there should have been one against ISU on another loose ball play where someone for ISU dove and used his body to take out DKs legs and get the ball. Marshall wasn't happy with the no call especially only a possession or two after the Hatch call.

I haven't watched the game on TV yet so maybe that could change some of my thinking, but from row 25 I can't argue the Hatch call. He wasn't in a legal guarding position.

I agree on that last point. I even mentioned it to the guy sitting next to me that often a game is being called one way and then for some strange reason it turns on a dime. Thats always hard for the fans to understand.
Mike Kennedy even said he often has wanted that to be a foul call and it is often not called. But y'all are both right -- it is a foul. As a fan, it is definitely a foul I can live with a player getting called on.

If / when you do watch the playback I'm curious as to why you think in the 2nd half out of seemingly nowhere a loose game started getting called very tight.

[ShockerGorilla]

If / when you do watch the playback I'm curious as to why you think in the 2nd half out of seemingly nowhere a loose game started getting called very tight.

It seems like a lot of ours games this season have been like that. Good flow in the first half and then a train wreck in the second half for the same style of play.

[SubGod22]

Rose - I'll try and watch it tonight or maybe tomorrow morning and see what I come up with. It's possible that the teams simply started fouling more. It does happen sometimes. But until I can sit and analyze it I can't be certain. I know watching it live I didn't have too much of an issue with how the game was called. There are always going to be calls that you/we don't agree with or may simply be bad but I don't remember a lot of that from row 25.