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It was on Ace...arguing with the official.What was the tech call on Wahab?
Was on phone, missed explanation.It was on Ace...arguing with the official.
We keep fouling them (all 6 fouls seemed legit, and add the stupid T to it).It’s crazy that 7 fouls were called on PSU in the first four minutes of the second half and not a single one on Iowa.
I imagine the official referee apologist will say they were all legit, but it is pretty clear these refs know Iowa is a bubble team.It’s crazy that 7 fouls were called on PSU in the first four minutes of the second half and not a single one on Iowa.
Take off the blue and white glasses if you think we're somehow getting hosed...although I'm sure you were very willing to call the officiating one-sided in our favor for every game down the stretch last year when we were on the bubble, right?I imagine the official referee apologist will say they were all legit, but it is pretty clear these refs know Iowa is a bubble team.
Still just seems really raw...hands, feel for the game on defense, doing anything with the ball on offense, etc.Aire looks athletic but he has horrible hands.
Apparently we’re not the only ones that think this bald moron in stripes sucks - he has had it in for PSU for years before Rhoades got here…Take off the blue and white glasses if you think we're somehow getting hosed...although I'm sure you were very willing to call the officiating one-sided in our favor for every game down the stretch last year when we were on the bubble, right?
Amazing how it works that every single game, in every single sport, somehow the referees and announcers hate us.
"Had it in"? Or "he's a high profile official and probably about the only one in the country that the average PSU Basketball fan could pick out of a lineup"? What was bad about his performance tonight? I thought he missed the foul on Kern's drive that led to the T, but otherwise saw no issues.Apparently we’re not the only ones that think this bald moron in stripes sucks - he has had it in for PSU for years before Rhoades got here…
https://www.change.org/p/big-ten-ba...ate-and-remove-dj-carstensen-big-ten-official
Can't give up 90 and have such a bad start. Missed most of the game so don't know if Iowa was on fire with their shooting or our D was awful or a combo.We really played at their pace tonight...Ace went the distance in a 79 possession game. Glad that we've got that week off coming up after Saturday as he'll really need it.
Little of both...they got too many open looks and layups, but also made plenty of contested shots. Plus we sent them to the line way too much. However, we did a great job on the defensive glass, and limiting those second chance points really kept us in it. We started out really poorly on D, but settled in as the game went along and make them work a little more for it.Can't give up 90 and have such a bad start. Missed most of the game so don't know if Iowa was on fire with their shooting or our D was awful or a combo.
I know Iowa is averaging over 80 points a game so this output is not out of character for them. Hoping Rhoades can build a defensive minded culture. He had that at VCU, no?Little of both...they got too many open looks and layups, but also made plenty of contested shots. Plus we sent them to the line way too much. However, we did a great job on the defensive glass, and limiting those second chance points really kept us in it. We started out really poorly on D, but settled in as the game went along and make them work a little more for it.
In his 6 years at VCU, Kenpom had their National Rankings at...I know Iowa is averaging over 80 points a game so this output is not out of character for them. Hoping Rhoades can build a defensive minded culture. He had that at VCU, no?
Year | Overall | Offensive Eff | Defensive Eff |
2023 | 60 | 144 | 15 |
2022 | 63 | 209 | 7 |
2021 | 48 | 122 | 14 |
2020 | 73 | 138 | 45 |
2019 | 42 | 177 | 7 |
2018 | 144 | 149 | 156 |
"Had it in"? Or "he's a high profile official and probably about the only one in the country that the average PSU Basketball fan could pick out of a lineup"? What was bad about his performance tonight? I thought he missed the foul on Kern's drive that led to the T, but otherwise saw no issues.
As usual, I'm sure that DJ will be doing games into the second week of the tourney this year.
Thank God an 11th person didn't sign the petition, or the B1G might have been forced to take action due to such an overwhelming response.
Question…how many of those 3 times did DJ T him up?
I watch every Penn State game and know 80% of the officials names. I’m not making comment on what he does against others but when he’s there in our games things like last night happen routinely- that’s not an accident and journalists are starting to notice.
How did DJ T him up twice if it was Harris that T’d him up in the NW game?Twice but if you don’t sit in the BJC for every home game you don’t have the sample size I do.
We didn’t play our best game and likely didn’t deserve to win but when you only lose by 9 despite 3 T’s called for far less than what I see others get away with in the BJC …. and the refs go on a 7-0 run of foul calls while we are drawing within 2 points… and ignoring Nick Kern being tackled on the way to the hoop I don’t know what else I can say.. we’ll have to agree to disagree but Carstensen has proved time and again that he can’t do his job fairly when he steps on the court for a PSU game .. he sucks.
I didn't see the game so have no idea how well it was officiated but Ben Jones tweeted out that this official was the official PSU's coach "called out" several weeks ago for bad officiating after a game. Ben Jones tweet:"Had it in"? Or "he's a high profile official and probably about the only one in the country that the average PSU Basketball fan could pick out of a lineup"? What was bad about his performance tonight? I thought he missed the foul on Kern's drive that led to the T, but otherwise saw no issues.
As usual, I'm sure that DJ will be doing games into the second week of the tourney this year.
Thank God an 11th person didn't sign the petition, or the B1G might have been forced to take action due to such an overwhelming response.
2+1 = 3 but honestly I’m done with the conversation because you won’t convince me and I won’t convince you. I’ll leave at this:How did DJ T him up twice if it was Harris that T’d him up in the NW game?
Question…did DJ T us up last night?2+1 = 3 but honestly I’m done with the conversation because you won’t convince me and I won’t convince you. I’ll leave at this:
1) Coach Rhoades called him out
2) Other journalists are calling him out
3) Steve Jones in his own sly way regularly calls him out on the radio broadcasts
4) Someone noticed enough to start a petition against him on line (it wasn’t me)
5) Years of observing through my own eye test - I know what I’ve seen and it’s not kosher
Too many conversations on this board end in name calling.. I don’t want to go there … can you at least acknowledge there’s smoke here?
Obli, this is like a game of telephone…Mike called out the officiating in general…Ben added commentary around DJ…that doesn’t make DJ “the official that Rhoades called out”.I didn't see the game so have no idea how well it was officiated but Ben Jones tweeted out that this official was the official PSU's coach "called out" several weeks ago for bad officiating after a game. Ben Jones tweet:
I’m done … you’re sidestepping the main issue.. this is about a pattern that goes back years. I don’t want to fall into the “in your face” pattern that dominates this board and why I don’t post more often. You’re arguing just to argue at this point. Have a nice day.Question…did DJ T us up last night?
And since you are being obstinate here it is straight from the SI article. Sense an undertone? Looks like 1+1 = 2 Any other questions?Question…did DJ T us up last night?
The point was that this one specific ref seems to be at the center of it.Obli, this is like a game of telephone…Mike called out the officiating in general…Ben added commentary around DJ…that doesn’t make DJ “the official that Rhoades called out”.
I mean, how much can we take from an article that doesn't even have the ability to fact check at all. That article is brutal. I think I can see why SI is dying.And since you are being obstinate here it is straight from the SI article. Sense an undertone? Looks like 1+1 = 2 Any other questions?
The Nittany Lions (14-15, 8-10) closed that 17-point deficit to two in the second half, but Iowa cut off the rally and benefited from an odd technical foul call on Baldwin.
Just over three minutes into the half, Baldwin said something to an Iowa ball-handler and drew the technical from official D.J. Carstensen. Unlike the technical Penn State coach Mike Rhoades received in the first half (also from Carstensen), this one curbed a rally instead of beginning one. Iowa extended its lead to 10 points over the next 4 minutes, and then expanded it to 15 as Penn State went scoreless over a 3-minute stretch.
FYI, Brent Hampton T'd up Mike in the NCAA game.2+1 = 3 but honestly I’m done with the conversation because you won’t convince me and I won’t convince you.
I can acknowledge there is "smoke here" like there is "smoke" with every really good official that does a lot of high profile games. No one hates Brooks Wells because most couldn't pick him out of a lineup. People know who DJ is and think he sucks...just like people think Ted Valentine sucks, Ed Hightower sucked, Jim Burr sucked...and all of them think they are biased against their own team.can you at least acknowledge there’s smoke here?