RebKell's Junkie Boards

[mercfan3]

Dear Merc, our team is in the orange.

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[adamj95]

Can you shot fake at the freethrow line?

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4 time WNBA Champion, 3rd all time in Assists, Minnesota's own: LINDSAY WHALEN.

[WNBA 09]

[bballgrl]

The Lynx used to be one of my favorite teams before they became thugs. The Lynx must have hired these refs. Granted the Merc didn't play their best game but the Lynx had a lot of fouls which were not called. Sy has become a very physical player who should have been called many times for things she did.

[adamj95]

[justintyme]

[shontay33]

[ClayK]

Whalen played well -- and when she plays like it's 2015, the Lynx are very good.

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[Shades]

When your biggest defensive liability gets 5 steals, you know it’s your night.

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Nnekalonians 1:14 - Thou shalt not accept that which is not earned

[mercfan3]

[sportsfan48]

[Randy]

Maybe this should have its own thread, but since the subject has come up, what exactly (or at least approximately) is the definition of the proper level of "physical" play? What is excessive physical play? What is "dirty' play?

[myrtle]

Here's my definition of physical vs dirty.
Physical means 1) lots of arm bar pushing to try to keep someone out of the paint; 2) bodying up; 3) double team sandwiches.
Dirty means little surreptitious things like 1)pulling on someone's shorts; 2) yanking someone's ponytail; 3) Stepping on a foot to prevent movement; 4) pushing in the back on a shot attempt; 5) locking arms and pretending it wasn't you that initiated it; 6)'accidentally' poking someone in the face (this is less frequent now with all the reviews in place).
A good example of dirty would be to watch PPP in some of her old games.
Then there is the even more extreme version of punching, tripping, shoving, elbowing but those are usually obvious enough to be caught.

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if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.
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[Libra_Girl]

Good gm by Whalen & the Minny played good.

[Randy]

[Luuuc]

[Randy]

Brings to mind my interpretation of the fan's phase - "Let them play ref.." It means "Let my players foul their players ref...."

[ClayK]

Having just finished a camp, I've recently tried to tell middle schoolers about a lot of things, and physicality is a big one. (Our high school team lost in the state final four because we got out-physicalled by a team we had beaten earlier in the year ... they adjusted, we didn't.)

The first thing, of course, is to gauge the officiating. You want to be as physical as the whistles will allow, as the definition of a foul is when the ref blows the whistle.

From an officiating point of view, a primary job is to control the game, and if there's too much physicality/"dirty play", then you get staredowns, trash talk and even scuffles. On the other hand, you want to the players to decide the game, so usually refs will allow physicality that doesn't gain an obvious advantage -- but if that physicality threatens to spiral the game out of control, it has to be stopped.

And of course refs, like players, have good and bad games, and that's factor too.

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