Sooner men lead Hawaii 21-5 7:00 into the game

[Plainosooner]

Hield has 14 of OUr 21.

Game on ESPN 2

 

[BillyRay]

I really need to get off my butt and start keeping up with the OU basketball team. Been dragging my feet in keeping up with OU hoops the last few years and they have quietly been building a frickin damn good team!!! Lon Kruger has gone far beyond my expectations in how far he has elevated OU basketball again.

 

[Plainosooner]

The officials are screwing us in a big way. We've shot two free throws on an absolute mugging. They've shot ten. I'm getting really peeved. It's down to four. 26-22. They are beating us up with no calls and they go to the line with a touch. Just had a five point play on a phantom tech followed by a three.

 

[BillyRay]

Wow...just checked the score and it's 69-65 OU. Turning into a pretty tight game. Just over 8min left in the game.

 

[Sooners83]

well very happy win, but I agree with Plaino on the calls. That pretty much threw us out of our game totally to the point we couldn't even hit layups. Having said that?...the team needs to learn from all of that and not get rattled as they obviously were. A bit like the TCU game where we had to get a great play at the very end to win.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Wow, that was a tight fit. Glad we prevailed but oh man...
This team had me spoiled to constant 30 point leads. Back to reality.

 

[ohyoubaby]

well very happy win, but I agree with Plaino on the calls. That pretty much threw us out of our game totally to the point we couldn't even hit layups. Having said that?...the team needs to learn from all of that and not get rattled as they obviously were. A bit like the TCU game where we had to get a great play at the very end to win.

Refs were terrible!

 

[soonerboyz3]

CLOSE ....

 

[soonermade]

Didn't help that we were playing Hawaii in Hawaii. Of all the teams, that was the one team I didn't want to play due to the home court advantage.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Didn't help that we were playing Hawaii in Hawaii. Of all the teams, that was the one team I didn't want to play due to the home court advantage.

Do you reckon that was the epitome of home cooking?

Hell, they didn't even try to make it subtle.

 

[Plainosooner]

I don't know, but I suspect that in these circumstances, they use a lot of local guys to work the games. People don't know this, but a large part of what officials get paid is their travel expenses. So using Hawaiian officials save a lot of money in an event that doesn't make much.

The tech they called on an OU backup in the first half was ridiculous. You wouldn't call that in a high school game and surely not in a college game. Two of those officials looked like they were in their 20s. No way they had the experience necessary to work a quality college basketball game.

That was just nasty looking. And we had calls on us on one end that weren't seen in the other half court. I don't know what the final foul shot totals were, but when I got mad and quit watching at half time, we'd shot three free throws and they were in double digits. I also think that with the jet lag, that it showed up a lot more on the second night (afternoon?), when we tipped off less than 24 hours later. Even shorter for them, but they weren't dealing with six hours of jet lag.

I'm still trying to figure out why we made one trip to Hawaii two weeks ago, and another for the last two days and one more. Over 16,000 miles just on those two round trip flights.

 

[bcsoonerfan]

Lon will using this game to his advantage...and we still won.

So far we've played a stellar non conference schedule and remain unbeaten. I think we'll be much more battle tested than our conference opponents.

Didn't get to watch the games the last 2 nights being at work but man are these guys fun to watch!