No looking back. Just play to the best of your ability for the rest of the season and let things fall where they may. That being said, these FUCKING REFS SUUUUUUUCK!!!

ASU did outplay us today. When we didn’t get them to turn it over, the shot an amazing percentage. However, SPTR are the story yet again. Harden regularly got away with pushing off on offense, there was 2 terrible blocking calls on Aboya that should have been charges, and then when the SPTR got a chance to be consistent, they make the worst call of the season on DC. Unbelievable.

I cant wait for the NCAA tournament when we get competent refs.

But Aboya did the exact same thing and was actually more set only a few minutes earlier and it was a block. And I couldn’t believe my ears hearing them complain about DC’s off arm when Harden was literally doing that every other possession.

I always am when we lose. But Nestor summarized it well – ASU shot lights out from 3 and very well overall, and outrebounded us.

It’s kinda embarassing reading the game thread and seeing many people whine about the refs for the loss. Of course that was a horrible call by the SFPTR (sorry ‘66, I’m amending your acronym for this one), and we know how horrible the SFPTR always are, but to say that single call lost us the game is ridiculous.

If we had defended better or rebounded better throughout the game, then an isolated play like that doesn’t cost us. We had possessions after that call, too, but didn’t take advantage. To say it changed the complexion suggests that our guys were helpless to respond, and I will never believe that our team doesn’t determine it’s own outcome.

It sucks tonight, but we’ll get over it and come back strong against the standard on Saturday.

but they were also turning the ball over, which kept us in it.

I’m still extremely peeved at that call, and knew it was over from there. I’m just also peeved it happened on national TV, where all the talking heads are going to go UCLA has issues with ________ because it was the one game they could watch on TV.

On another note, thanks to Notre Dame for annihilating Louisville, it just helps us out.

you have to play better than we played, today.

You can’t let games stay close, because that’s when a bad call can decide the game.

We did not play well and were somewhat lucky it was a close as it was. I’ll take back the lucky — we stayed in the game because we forced turnovers.

However, we lost the game because:

We were slow on D and gave them too many uncontested 3’s — which they made.

We missed easy shots inside — JH’s, in particular.

We got beat on the boards, badly.

We let them shoot 60%.

Had we played better, a few bad calls would not have turned the game.

The only way to win in the Pac 10 is to take the game out of the ref’s hands by building such a big lead that no number of bad calls can challenge it. We didn’t do that so we lost.

We could have stretched the lead so many times in the second half, but kept giving them open 3 point shots. We needed a cushion down the stretch because you don’t want the refs to make a controversial call. This is one of the drawback of being a road team.

I was at the game at Pauley, and really felt that we would handle them this time, especially for payback. I think the best we can get is a 3 seed in the West. We need to win the PAC-10 straight up and do well in the PAC-10 tourney. Hopefully, beat asu this time.

In all 5 of our losses (against ranked or quality teams), we did not close the deal like we did in past years.

We are not getting the necessary stops and the offense gets too conservative and stagnant during crunch time. I always feel that we have the advantage during tight games because of our senior leadership and the defense. Scratching my head right now

I hope you guys don’t take this the wrong way, because it was a great game, but UCLA plays some of the touchiest defense I have seen as a fan. They are consistently hands-on the players they are guarding (not necessarily grabbing, but possibly).
There were a lot of fouls called on UCLA tonight because they were fouling a lot.

ASU probably got a few calls, definitely, but there were things like Collison’s double dribble that wasn’t called and ended up being a 3 point made basket for the Bruins. I was at the game, so I saw things that may or may not have happened. But neither I nor the refs had any access to replays to base our judgements off of.

Do Pac-10 refs suck? Yes. But I thought they could have called more fouls on UCLA, so we are naturally suffering from home team bias. Great game though, and I hope to see you go far in the Tourney.

Branch: “Bad call, home job!”
Fraschilla: “It is the Pac 10”

Those are the exact quotes. I used by DVR to go back and triple check to make sure I got it right.

I was at the game tonight, and it was painful to watch. There were many phantom calls where whistles were blown, devils’ fan cheering, but nobody knew who actually committed the foul. The game was so choppy and a rhythm was never established because of the whistle-happy refs. During the first half, our warriors looked lost on D, but they closed the half out strong. The second half went back and forth, but their sixth men (the refs) provided the edge that they needed. I’m still in disbelief!

I was there, and it was bad in both directions. I was surrounded by a sea of ASU fans and they were unhappy with the officiating as well. It was so bad I thought Howland was going to turn into Bobby Knight or Coach K.

The game was all around intense, especially the defense on both sides.

All game, it felt like either team was about to pull away, but the officiating and timeouts and lengthy replay reviews got in the way of the flow. With the charge, technical foul, and slam dunk, it ended what was a close game in a very short amount of time.