[fiasco]

Mid second quarter, head coach gets his second direct technical and leaves the game. During the ensuing free throws, one of the assistant coaches stands to coach his players, standing about 5-7 feet onto the floor with them in a huddle while the free throws are being shot.

The head coach's behavior had escalated things quite a bit over the course of the game, and so I decided to go to the huddle in between free throws and give the assistant coach a warning and ask him to sit on the bench for the remainder of the game.

The AC proceeded to give me major attitude about this and that and the other while standing his ground, taking the opportunity to tell me what he thought about me running his friend. I reminded him one more time that he had no coaching box and repeated violation of the rule would result in an additional technical.

He said this and that and the other as he slowly, very slowly, made his way back to the bench, telling me to "just ref the game."

In hindsight this feels like a miss and I wish I had simply T'd him up after he didn't comply with my first warning but I would welcome your thoughts.