Welcome to our world guys with the officiating. Ninth region officials were much better with the exception of Pouncy he is by far the worst I have ever seen in 41 years of watching basketball.

 

Wow, I've always considered him one of the better ones in our region.

Welcome to our world guys with the officiating. Ninth region officials were much better with the exception of Pouncy he is by far the worst I have ever seen in 41 years of watching basketball.

Yep, I'd take the 9th region boys back anytime. 16th are horrible.

I was actually talking about my guy Panda.

 

I knew that, I was just teasing. paNDA is the best.

I believe the reds won this game for Holmes, late in the game Cooper gets called for a foul that had the Holmes fans wondering what was called! Then Holmes player laying on the floor blatantly grabs the cooper point guards ankle and only a one and one foul is called, that in my opinion and my understanding is two shots plus the ball for cooper flagrant foul. Anyone disagree?

 

Come on man...no way refs won or lost this game for either team.

 

If you want to play that game, though, if they don't call Chames for a walk when he was pushed and didn't even have possession going for a loose ball, Cooper probably doesn't even get the opportunity for the Collins 3 to tie the game as that foul would've sent Holmes to the line up 3 with under a min to go.

 

There are a lot of head scratchers both ways and while I agree that was bad, refs didn't win or lose this game for either team.

Come on man...no way refs won or lost this game for either team.

 

If you want to play that game, though, if they don't call Chames for a walk when he was pushed and didn't even have possession going for a loose ball, Cooper probably doesn't even get the opportunity for the Collins 3 to tie the game as that foul would've sent Holmes to the line up 3 with under a min to go.

 

There are a lot of head scratchers both ways and while I agree that was bad, refs didn't win or lose this game for either team.

Sorry Walter, but the refs handed this one to Holmes. If it weren't for the horrible calls AJ wouldn't of needed to hit the 3 at the end of regulation in the first place

Also, if you are going to cry about officiating, don't forget the time where the ref next to the inbounder calls 5 secs and other ref blows whistle literally 1 sec later granting Cooper with a timeout after the call was made.

 

Again, I agree these refs were bad both ways but don't say it cost one team or the other the game.

Sorry Walter, but the refs handed this one to Holmes.

 

Understand you are a Cooper fan and disappointed your team lost, rightfully so, but I'm going to have to respectfully disagree that the refs handed Holmes this game. If Bolden doesn't hit that game winning 3, I can almost guarantee none of you are bringing up officiating. I can promise I wouldn't have as the calls I mentioned are the only ones that stood out to me going against Holmes and NONE impacted the outcome.

Welcome to our world guys with the officiating. Ninth region officials were much better with the exception of Pouncy he is by far the worst I have ever seen in 41 years of watching basketball.

 

Where is the lady ref from the 16th that has worked previous 9th region tourneys? She was far better than these guys.

I make very few post on here, and we all have opinions, but is gets old , every game, the refs the refs, this was a huge game played by an outstanding group of young men on both sides and it was going to be sad to see either teem loose, but cant we just focus on the GAME, officiating is a thankless job and these guys from the 16th could care less who wins, to say the refs handed Holmes tha game is just crazy, great job by Coach Sullivan and congrats to both teams on an outstanding season.

Also, if you are going to cry about officiating, don't forget the time where the ref next to the inbounder calls 5 secs and other ref blows whistle literally 1 sec later granting Cooper with a timeout after the call was made.

 

Again, I agree these refs were bad both ways but don't say it cost one team or the other the game.

 

I could clearly see the coach request timeout prior to the 5 count whistle being blown. Granted the TO ref might not have blown his whistle before the 5 count whistle but the request was made to the ref standing nearest to the coach clearly before the whistle for the 5 count.

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Also, if you are going to cry about officiating, don't forget the time where the ref next to the inbounder calls 5 secs and other ref blows whistle literally 1 sec later granting Cooper with a timeout after the call was made.

 

Again, I agree these refs were bad both ways but don't say it cost one team or the other the game.

 

Come Walter I'm not a fan of either team and my team got beat in District. But the refs lost this game for Cooper I know you are a big Holmes supporter but if it was the other way around you are the worst cryer on here. You cried all year about the 10 region Refs on your thread. Holmes had a 6th man today and it was the refs. PERIOD

Welcome to our world guys with the officiating. Ninth region officials were much better with the exception of Pouncy he is by far the worst I have ever seen in 41 years of watching basketball.

 

Pouncy is the best official in the 9th. You don't ref 2 Boys and 1 Girls State Championships by being the worst ref in your region. This really has nothing to do with this thread but thought I would make that point.

 

As for today's officials it is what it is but for Cooper to only shoot 7 free throws to Holmes 15 and the foul count to be 9-3 with 3 mins to play in the game makes one scratch their head. Cooper had its chances but it just didnt work out. It took a great shot by a great player to make a great shot so I tip my hat to the dogs and wish them luck. I will say that many things were exposed with the dogs today.

Congrats to Holmes and whoever represents in Lexington for the 9th, Holmes or CCH I want you all to do some damage down there and represent us well.

 

The Refs sucked lol....i'm off for a night out on the town...cya!