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I have to agree with everyone that said the scorer and coach shouldn't be in your dressing room. I wouldn't worry too much about the coach talking to your interpreter. As long as you're doing things correctly, your interpreter should have your back. Also as long as we're venting, I had a freshman AB double header Saturday. During the B game, V coach, who was a jerk, made the comment to me after a call that this was a Freshman B game. I commented back as nicely as I could that there was no separate rules book for Freshman basketball. End of story for me, or so I thought. V wins by 1 in a close game. On my way out V coach brings up again that I need to "relax" because it is a freshman game. I tried to nicely say that if I don't call the game by the rules, how are the players going to be ready to play JV and Varsity, and that I call the game close to the way I call Varsity because I have to be ready for my Varsity games. Coach then tells me that maybe I should just stick to Varsity (not that I would mind that). The little, inner voice in me said, "If I'm too by the book for you how would you like an unsportsmanlike conduct T since I have yet to leave the visual confines of the court, so we shoot a couple more free throws that cost you the game or maybe sends it to overtime." Instead, I took the high road and said thanks coach, have a nice season and walked away. Okay, I'm finished venting too.
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