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Shak gets better as his hair gets longer....
I disagree. I like Rivera as a ref. Not afraid to call stalling. Seems to be in good position the majority of the time.
Had no problem with the way he called it, the Minny wrestler posted 2 TDs to Verk's 1 and really pretty much dominated the action in the 2nd and 3rd periods... The Ref was clearly not going to let Verk back into a 1-point win via stalling (the diametric opposite of what the Ref rewarded Gross for doing). Complete bullshit what the Ref allowed Gross to do - rulebook clearly states it is an illegal strategy - and you would not see that rewarded in March at Nationals imho.
The score was closer than the match, but that was Rasheed's best effort this year. He's going in the right direction for sure.
Shak holds off late flurry and wins 7-5, PSU up 31-6
Rasheed hangs on for a 2 point win, due to the huge RT advantage. I'll take the win and he had a couple TDs, but still seemed a lot closer than it should have been.
We must have watched different matches then. I saw another 1 shot match, another late fade, and another unimpressive match.
I hope his progession kicks into high gear soon. I think if Nationals were wrestled this weekend he'd go two and out..
He does look better than he did earlier in the year, but that bar was set pretty low. Hope it clicks for him.
Nevills gave him a match, but 4 of Steveson's 5 takedowns were off of Nevills shots. Just a bad match up for Seth.
Not sure what you were watching but Gross absolutely was going backwards repeatedly as he attempted to fend off multiple deep shots by RBY. He was running backwards for the entire last 20 seconds as he was attempting to get out of bounds to avoid the body throw by RBY (RBY had the position on him and Gross was attempting to get to the edge so when he got thrown it would be OB which is precisely what eventually happened at the very end and is supposed to be called stalling when you use the edge in this manner.).
Not sure what you were watching, but you're completely full of it that Gross was not moving backwards for much of the period. Laughable claim actually.
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Tough to compare how stalling is called from one dual to another. You can maybe argue that Gross should have been hit with stalling against RBY, but the calls against Verk in the Minny dual were justified IMO. From a general perspective, almost any stall call against Verk is understandable because his entire MO against any opponent with a pulse is to block/stall most of the match and try to win by one point.Okay, let's compare how that Ref called Verk's match versus how the Ref called the RBY v Gross match. Verk escaped with only 1 minute left to take a 1 point lead, they then had a scramble that took them down to 25 seconds.... The Ref made it clear he was not going to let Verk stall his way to victory and called the stall with around 20 seconds left essentially giving them time in regulation for next TD wins knowing that if time expires the wrestlers would face the identical situation in TB overtime.
I was told by several posters on the board that Gross wrestling exclusively defensively was fine and that Refs "never call stalling" in that situation in the 3rd period...
This is the Minnesota thread. Go complain about a match on Friday in the Wisconsin thread.
Lmao. Forgot I paused the match to piss. Sorry for poor update.
I don't understand why Gable doesn't just always run in that high gear he has. It's like he doesn't enjoy wrestling or something.
Congrats to Jammenz--Eggum finally scores double-digit points against the nits.
Congrats to Jammenz--Eggum finally scores double-digit points against the nits.
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