Head On A Swivel! Kim English Smoked This Ref With A Pass Directly To The Face

I want to say this is well deserved because of my anti-ref campaign, but I'll be better than that. I'm not going to say the ref deserved it just like I won't make jokes about falling asleep in March. Some things just can't happen and we rise above. But I will laugh my ass off about this. We all know the stereotypical look of refs. They are old, some run with high knees, some have a belly somehow and they just don't look athletic by any means. This just shows all of that in one. Where's the court awareness? Where's the ability to turn your head fast enough to see a ball speeding at your face let alone turn your head to see the right call? Makes you think. 

The only shocking part of this was Shaka Smart not being on the court to knock away the pass. That dude is a 6th defender for Marquette. Smart since the refs don't warn him or anything. But you watch a Marquette game and Shaka is in a defensive stance, getting his hands up on shooters. He's legit a finalist for defensive player of the year. 

Credit where it's due though. Stripes didn't hit the ground. I'm shocked, but he stayed up. You get smoked in the face like that and most people would drop to at least one knee. Again, Gaffney is old. Not like he's a young pup out there running around who bounces back. That said, I will always laugh when a ref gets smoked with a pass like this and that's a promise.