Not usually called, because people usually don't take 10 to walk the ball up the floor.

I agree with some of the complaints and laments here, and there was certainly some sketchy officiating, but I thought what lost the lead and the game was something I've not seen all year: Simmons played hero ball for spurts all night and for the entire last 10 minutes of the game. It's not like we had a hot hand he was missing, but he was a black hole. Long, defended threes. Long, contested twos. Repeated failed attempts to go one on four in the paint. He had a chip on his shoulder (good) and he was going to shake it off by being the hero (bad!).

Kent needed this game a lot more than we did, but we could have and should have stolen it. Overall, not one to lose much sleep over unless it starts a pattern of behavior.

On the plus side, great representation from our fans as usual, and awesome to see Mike Laster's game continuing to look fantastic.

In Gallia county our internet location shows up as Pickerington so we are blacked out even though Time Warner/Spectra doesn't even serve the area. My only option is to turn the Wi-fi off on my phone and eat up my phone data. Its frustrating but not as frustrating as consistently blowing sizable leads to lose games.

In the last 8 minutes plus there were 15 judgement whistles (foul calls,turnovers like travels, etc.). All 15 went against the Bobcats. Obviously all 15 weren't tough judgments but a good number were and just as important were the non-calls.

There are probably a few ways around this. A semi-low tech one is to sign up for a VPN service. At a high level, you sign up for this service, it'll cost you roughly 20 a year or 40 for 'lifetime', but look around and you'll find something that is fairly reasonable.

What happens when you fire up your VPN on your computer, is you can pick a location to fake-out your IP address, or route your traffic through. So here, basically you pick a VPN location in Chicago or somewhere that is not in the blackout range. Then fire up the espn3.com and it thinks you're in a place that isn't blacked out, not Columbus/Athens/etc.

I used Stacksocial to search for a VPN provider, and ended up with something called 'VPN Unlimited'. Seems OK so far, and I only use it when they black out the Bobcat games. But there are a bunch for sale on that site, and plenty elsewhere I'm sure.

I think if you use this referral link you should get $10 off your purchase. (disclaimer it gives me some sort of credit too if you use it)
https://stacksocial.com/?rid=3942675

Hope this helps a few of you out.

ben

Left his mark on that game for sure.

VPN is essential for many reasons. YOu can read and decide http://lifehacker.com/5940565/why-you-should-start-using-...

I use the PIA product described http://lifehacker.com/5935863/five-best-vpn-service-provi... but the one Ben put up is interesting as I read it.,,,and he is much smarter about this stuff than I.THis page is part of Ben's stuff that makes me think I need to re evaluate the one I use....the ones here look like a better option https://stacksocial.com/sales/lifetime-of-purevpn . I just did PIA because it seemed easy to set up ...and not because it shares the same initials.

For all those who have been constantly beat up by the cable nad tv cos. I just change servers to a different part of the country...and sometimes a different country if I am looking for some basketball overseas

The refs went long stretches without calling a foul on Kent. There were no fouls on Kent between 10:37 and 0:30 in the first half, and the last foul on Kent in the 2nd half came with 8:13 left. Considering how physical the game was, that's a bit suspect.

We need to do more of that. Hard to do from outside the arc....or all running back immediately after 3 launches. Buffalo, 'kron, Can't - well they crash the boards both ends.....