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Joe Lindsay Olandis Poole

Olandis Poole has been officiating SEC games since 2016 and he's still a #3 official. In that same time he has called 6 NCAA tournament games. As a basketball bennie, I can tell he's not a very good official and his bosses who evaluate him appear to think the same.

Lindsay usually gets about 3 NCAA games a year. I've never thought he was a great official. I have no idea how you can be sharp with their crazy travel schedule. Last week he called a game Tuesday in Greenville, NC, Wednesday in Indy, Thursday in Philly, and Saturday in Lexington.
 
Or you can keep crying about officials instead of addressing the problems.
Or you can act like officiating isn't a part of the problem and pretend they are great at their jobs and above scrutiny. Is our defense bad? Yes Has the officiating been bad? Yes So both things can be true. They say the more aggressive team gets the whistle but Saturday Bama took 50% of their shots from 3 point range (34 of 67) and UK took 36% of their shots (27 of 73) from 3 point range which would indicate UK was taking more shots in the lane/at the rim and thus should have received at least a similar amount of free throws. The latter was not only not true but we had a 34-20 discrepancy at home where you usually have the "Home Court Advantage".

To me the biggest thing with the calls was touch fouls being called on drives for Bama was not called when we drove to the basket. Was most of the egregious? No but they were inconsistent. In 5 SEC games it's been basically an average of 30-20 free throw attemps in favor of the opponents. In our OOC games against P5 schools it is 24-20 free throws per game in favor of UK. So I'm not buying into Matt Jones explanation that we are horrible on defense and foul too much due to not being as athletic because in the pre conference schedule we weren't having the same issues.
 
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2-5 in our last seven when this crooked POS Lindsay is involved.
Where did you see this? I saw someone report on Twitter (prior to the Alabama game) that we had won 11 in a row that Joe Lindsay officiated, including the Duke game this year.

And here it is actually (this site is amazing btw).

We hadn't lost a Joe Lindsay officiated game since 2022....the St. Peter's game. http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/Officials/Joe_Lindsay.html
 
Or you can act like officiating isn't a part of the problem and pretend they are great at their jobs and above scrutiny. Is our defense bad? Yes Has the officiating been bad? Yes So both things can be true. They say the more aggressive team gets the whistle but Saturday Bama took 50% of their shots from 3 point range (34 of 67) and UK took 36% of their shots (27 of 73) from 3 point range which would indicate UK was taking more shots in the lane/at the rim and thus should have received at least a similar amount of free throws. The latter was not only not true but we had a 34-20 discrepancy at home where you usually have the "Home Court Advantage".

To me the biggest thing with the calls was touch fouls being called on drives for Bama was not called when we drove to the basket. Was most of the egregious? No but they were inconsistent. In 5 SEC games it's been basically an average of 30-20 free throw attemps in favor of the opponents. In our OOC games against P5 schools it is 24-20 free throws per game in favor of UK. So I'm not buying into Matt Jones explanation that we are horrible on defense and foul too much due to not being as athletic because in the pre conference schedule we weren't having the same issues.
It’s way too simplistic to say “Bama took half their shots from 3 and we took 36% of our shots from 3. The free throw numbers should be similar.” A good portion of Bama’s 3s come from them attacking the paint and kicking the ball. So even though they may take a long shot, it comes from them putting pressure on the defense in the paint.

Everyone looks at 34-20 and gets up in arms and says that it should never happen, especially at home. In theory i agree. But in reality, Bama shot 10 free throws in the last 1:10 with UK fouling to stop the clock. Now it stands at 24-20, and that is well within reason.

Not a perfectly officiated game by any means, but certainly nothing egregious like some have been crying about since Saturday.
 
It’s way too simplistic to say “Bama took half their shots from 3 and we took 36% of our shots from 3. The free throw numbers should be similar.” A good portion of Bama’s 3s come from them attacking the paint and kicking the ball. So even though they may take a long shot, it comes from them putting pressure on the defense in the paint.

Everyone looks at 34-20 and gets up in arms and says that it should never happen, especially at home. In theory i agree. But in reality, Bama shot 10 free throws in the last 1:10 with UK fouling to stop the clock. Now it stands at 24-20, and that is well within reason.

Not a perfectly officiated game by any means, but certainly nothing egregious like some have been crying about since Saturday.
It's also to naive to say think refs do not effect the outcomes of games.
 
I love when people say the refs have no control or something to the effect of they don’t have a hand in anything…….🙄. I wonder if the ones speaking ever played any competitive sports especially basketball, we all know they can and do control the game most of the time & now there’s gambling majorly involved in sports. Just be consistent is all any coach asks, but when a foul total is 9-2 within 4 mins of a half……🤔……I’m sure the team with 2 has fouled way more but not called……hence controlling the game, the flow & how the players actually play the game. Just like coaching, bad decisions get scrutinized so why not the refs?? It’s not like they are making a few dollars, like thousands for these games so why is it a crime to ask them to be good at their job?
 
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Just MHO but I believe a reason we get a lot of our fouls is coaching. Most of the teams with aggressive defenses are coached to foul. They are coached on how to hold, bump, shove, etc. etc. etc. When our guys return in kind, not having been coached in the fine art, they are obvious and they get caught.

Of course refs call things they didn’t see. They anticipate fouls, they react to spasmodic jerks and flops by the thespians and they never,never get the block/charge right
 
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