If it helps you get several calls a game why not, its a nasty place to play and it influences officials.
Jok Eye-Poke
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If it helps you get several calls a game why not, its a nasty place to play and it influences officials.
Yeah, we can stop worrying about booing an "injury." The fans were all booing the ref, right or wrong.
Or Georges play another couple minutes in the tourney with a broken bone in his foot.
Boo
I guess some fanbases boo and others boo hoo. I'm glad we're not the latter.
Hilton has 14K passion screaming fans. Emotion is there. Other places all you hear is sneakers squeaking. I'm glad we're not the latter.
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Major respect for Georges then for his reaction to the "Charlie horse" a few games back. Dude acted like he had been shot by a sniper!
Getting poked in the eye is not an injury, its a minor inconvenience. Exceptions would be the Kane eye rake and back when the dude from Villanova (Randy Foye?) got his entire eyeball poked out and and it was dangling.
Jok went down like he was hit by a sniper, while holding the ball, and the ref felt the need to stop the play. I think the booing was due to the stoppage of play, not that Jok had an eye poked. If Jok tore up his ACL or something instead, there wouldn't have been any booing.
Jok went down like he was hit by a sniper, while holding the ball, and the ref felt the need to stop the play. I think the booing was due to the stoppage of play, not that Jok had an eye poked. If Jok tore up his ACL or something instead, there wouldn't have been any booing.
Fans were booing because the ref stopped play and prevented Jok from getting a traveling call. It was not the fact that Jok got hurt, and to even think that ISU fans were booing an injury to another player shows how ridiculous you are blinded by your hawk goggles. Goodness. Isu fans aren't savages.
While that may true, I've always found it best to not match someone's lack of class.
He scored 12 on a broken foot in the NCAA tourney, and played with a gash above his eye in the Big 12 tournament final. Would be a pretty dumb move to question his toughness because he thought he had a major knee injury.
When there are 14,500 passionate fans, you are going to hear a lot of booing. It's one of the louder places in college basketball. It's like asking, "why do those fans cheer so much?". Watch a KU game, they boo a ton too.
I love when people like Jon Miller and KU people make fun of ISU fans booing. It's like they pointing and saying "Look how passionate those fans are!".
I was there and I don't think people were booing Jok...what we were booing was the fact that from the stands it looked as if T-Rex poked his own team-mates eye and the ref's stopped play. That's what everyone was upset over.
First off, it should have been a travel. No foul was called, no whistle blown, and Jok tumbled to the ground.
Second, it was an innocent eye poke/graze, yet Jok rolled around on the floor like he took a right hook to the jaw.
Second, it was an innocent eye poke/graze, yet Jok rolled around on the floor like he took a right hook to the jaw.
I was booing because they missed Woodbury's moving screen, for the fifth time.
There is a lot of truth to this. Woodbury's moving screen is why Jok got poked in the eye. Glad Jok's OK.
It was because there were a LOT of missed calls in the first half. Did you not hear them cheer loudly for one of Uhl's random fouls and then when they called a moving screen? It was a sarcastic cheer because they missed so many traveling calls on Woodbuy in the first half. Im sure you dont agree with the lopsided officiating in the first half, but that's why there were so many boos.
There were about 3 straight possessions in the second half, it appeared to me he changed his pivot foot every time he had the ball. No calls.
Im not sure, I thought there was one called. It got a sarcastic cheer from the crowd. But it might have been a foul or something else called on that one. It happened a LOT though.
Predictably KU fans are calling out ISU fans for booing an injured player (and storming the court.) It's nice to see that Iowa fans are more rational than KU fans on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBas...l/game_thread_iowa_vs_6_iowa_state_730_pm_et/
