...The only major issue I've had with him this year is that he didn't get onto his players about all the lip service and Technical fouls. That sheet comes back to haunt you as we all saw yesterday. This is not solely a CBM problem. You can include Johni crying about every foul (or non-foul), KD and his insanity that very recently added up to 4 Techs in 4 consecutive games, and of course CBM. Maybe this gives these guys some kind of edge in the games, but it also can cost you in a close game.
We have developed a reputation with the officials. They're consciously or subconsciously looking for reasons to blow the whistle against AU. Bruce could have, and should have, put an end to this a month or more ago. I thought the flagrant 2 was way overkill, but refs these days have obviously been told to err on the side of "player safety".
There are plenty of other things that happened yesterday to result in that ugly L, but this one thing was probably the biggest. Bruce coulda prevented this if he had just curtailed all of this over a month ago. Still a HUGE Bruce fan though. WDE !
We have developed a reputation with the officials. They're consciously or subconsciously looking for reasons to blow the whistle against AU. Bruce could have, and should have, put an end to this a month or more ago. I thought the flagrant 2 was way overkill, but refs these days have obviously been told to err on the side of "player safety".
There are plenty of other things that happened yesterday to result in that ugly L, but this one thing was probably the biggest. Bruce coulda prevented this if he had just curtailed all of this over a month ago. Still a HUGE Bruce fan though. WDE !
