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donnie should have yelled at these knucklehead refs until he got a warning

The refs missed an over-and-back call on Memphis that I easily spotted from Section 101. B.J. Taylor got fouled on a layup attempt early in overtime, and it wasn't called. The shot clock operator even bungled when he or she reset the clock as Memphis was inbounding the ball from half-court. Why would you reset the clock in that situation?

There were other examples of poor officiating, but I'm not going to make it sound like that was the only reason we lost. We allowed Memphis way too many easy baskets and offensive rebounds. Turnovers and missed free throws hurt us also. There was nothing Memphis did that was special; quite frankly, they just simply played harder and with more confidence than our team did. We should've won this game, but we failed to play a full 40 minutes. We only played well in short spurts, and that isn't going to be enough to win a lot of games in the American. We've got to be better than this.
 
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