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I like to use a little game awareness. Perhaps this is the wrong approach as a first year official, but it seems to work for me -- I feel comfortable with it anyway. If the score's close late in the game (4th quarter), I'll usually go to an irate coach with something like "Coach, do you want your girls/guys to lose a chance to win this game because of a technical foul?" Usually the coach will utter some last half-hearted comment and be quiet the rest of the game....and by doing this I feel that I have placed a little of the course of outcome on his/her shoulders. Of course, if it's a blowout or early in the game and the schmuck won't shut up, whack 'em!
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