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Originally posted by tomegun
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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Six years ago, I was officiating a NAIA women's game. The home head coach was the dean of the conference coaches. I had never before officiated her or her team. During the course of the first half, it was obvious that she was not happy with the job that my partner and I were doing, so much so that about half way throught the first half I had to give her the stop sign and a warning.
About two-thirds away into the half, from the L, opposite the table position, I called a foul on one of her players, a shooting foul. I moved out to the center of the court, clearing the players, but staying on the far side of the center circle to report the foul. Coach H(ome Team) stepped out of the coaching box onto the court to complain about my call. Technical foul. At this point my partner who was L, table-side did nothing. The coach, upset about the foul on her player and now receiving a technical foul, started coming at me.
Everybody in the gym, except my wife (but that is another story), knew that I had just whacked Coach H. I started back pedaling and looking for my partner to intercept Coach H, but he just stood there never moving. He had plenty of time to intercept Coach H, but did not. I put up a stop sign but Coach H just blew right through it. The result was a second direct technical foul on Coach H from me and her disqualification and ejection from the game.
Could this second technical foul been avoided? Yes. How? The off official should have headed off Coach H after the first technical foul. If Coach H was going to get a second technical foul, it should not have been from me but from my partner. I have three officiating friends that evaluate Division I officials and all three of them could not understand why my partner did not intercept Coach H.
My partner and I talked about it at half time. He did not know why either except to say that he thought she was going to stop once she got the first technical foul. Thinking that she was going to stop was a big mistake.
While I do not have a problem with an official taking care of business, to the point that a coach has to be ejected, then that official has to take care of business. This ejection was not my first (it was my first at the college level, and I had been officiating college ball for 23 years at the time). But, our jobs as officials are to try to prevent situations from escalating if at all possible. This was an ejection that should not have happened.
I am not saying that I am the perfect official, far from it, but a technical foul is a major breakdown in the game, and things must be done in attempt major breakdowns from going from bad to worse.
Tomegun:
Read my post below to Bart, about what to say and to handle a coach who has just received a technical foul. Dead ball efficiency is important. And yes, bad things happen during dead ball situations. As officials, we want the ball to be put back into play as efficiently as possible. When the ball is in play, the coach now has to turn his attention back to coaching his team (hopefully), at not at the officials. And yes, I hope that inexperienced officials read my post and will learn that dead ball efficiency is very important, and that the sooner the ball can be put back into play the better.
Fred Horgan, a past president of IAABO, who represents Canada on the FIBA Techncial Board, has a great lecture about dead ball efficiency. I do not know off hand which IAABO Board to which he belongs, but I am sure that one of our Canadian members of this forum and get information to you as to how to contact Fred. I am sure that Fred has put to paper his lecture and he might possible send you a copy of it. Of course hearing Fred presenting it in person is a treat that just cannot be beat. But his thought on dead ball efficiency might be very helpful to you.
MTD, Sr.