The pain of the true Clemson Basketball fan

Jan 28, 2018, 9:32 PM

I've been able to really watch Clemson basketball for 30 years now in a capacity to understand the game. I've seen Clemson play with 4 players... I've seen our guys get turned upside down on lay ups to tie or win the game with no foul called... Seen the vice versa and refs put the other team at the line with 0.1 second to shoot game winning shots... I've seen ,and this one in person, Pitt shoot a game tying shot with no time left on the game clock so the refs went to replay and it was clear as day the ball was in the Pitt players hand while the red light glared around the backboard. But they called it a good shot because there was a delay that goes shot clock ends then buzzer goes off then light on backboard lights up. Unfortunately for Clemson, and what would have been a tournament team with that game being their 20th win, the refs decided that since the red light on the backboard that lit up the opposing backboard was a fraction of a second difference that they could not make a technical call and decided overtime was good...
I've seen Lenny decide it was his mission to get control of a game by ejecting our players who were 30 feet from action... I sat and watch, again in person, Karl Hess berate Demontez Stitt, God rest Buddy's soul, for the entire length of a tv timeout while Stitt retreated continuously from Hess's advance only to be called for a tech when he asked him to quit following him...

Clemson has made many steps to get on the right side of officiating. We had Barnes... The take no prisoners guy, didn't work. Then Purnell... The we can play defense but only til the ball get to the other side of the court guy, no luck... Now BB... The kill them with kindness guy and that seems to make it easier for the stripes to do it.

This list could get as long as any list I could make so it is well past conspiracy and moved into the realm of reality. Even Vitale did a show that featured Hansborough under the basket taking 7 steps with the ball securely in his hands. That show ran many years ago. Like I said the list could go on.

I love and will continue to support our team to the fullest. I'm sure the administration is leaning on the right people but until the refs quit training with Williams and shetshevki then we are not going to get anywhere and we will always play 8 on the court.

We played 8 tonight and won despite what looked like a blatant violation of referee interference when our guards passed to each other with a couple minutes left. History repeats itself and the acc is the acc. Still got love for orange!

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The pain of the true Clemson Basketball fan

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