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MTD, wrong, wrong, wrong!
Yes, you do want to get with your partners after a T but that is to make sure you know what they got and know what you are going to do. Shoot two, ball at half court or point of interruption and so forth. This will also help calm the calling official down. Yes you do need to tell the coach that he must sit. Someone needs to tell him and depending on the situation sometimes it doesn't matter who. I will not, I repeat will not tell a coach why my partner gave him a T. If you are my partner you are a big boy and you can tell him yourself if you so desire. Other than that a up close and personal with a coach looks bad to the other coach whether it is a T or anything else. You have nothing to gain by going over to an upset coach and telling him he has to sit down and why he got the T. Also, why would you have to tell him he will be ejected if he gets another one? To calm him down? Sounds like consoling to me. This does not fall under the preventive officiating category to me. I'm going to do some preventive officiating mostly between the lines.
Nothing but bad things can happen during a dead ball? Don't you know there are some inexperienced officials that could be reading your posts and you say something like this? If I'm taking what you are trying to convey out of context please explain but in general this statement is about as false as false can get. You can do a lot of good things during a dead ball. Dead ball situations can help your game go so much smoother!
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