[bob jenkins]

Originally posted by Art N
Yesterday, I had one of "those " coaches who was yelliing about 3 seconds call. He started with the coaches mantra, "3 seconds, 3 seconds", and then progressed to the more direct, "still hasn't cleared, still hasn't cleared" (player actually cleared the key 2 times).
I was working with a rookie official and he called a 3 sec. violation that this guy may have influenced.
Then he went to counting loudly, 3,4,5... I turned to him as I'm heading back down court and said "coach, don't do any more counting."
In hind sight, I could have said, "Can you do your A,B,C's, too?"

"I hear you, and I'll look. But, everytime you start counting, I lose track and have to start over."