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first the question...3 person, who has the shot at the end of a quarter???
now for the coach...tonite 8th grade boys a and b games. B game is ugly basketball but competitive game. The A game is going along not as competitive but a little better basketball...before the game the home coach mentions that this game should be fairly comptetitive, but that the fans get a little too involved, and to just be aware. No real problems and the game goes along. With 31 seconds left in the game, a 12 pt game in favor of the visitors, the timer doesn't start the clock. The timers and bookkeeper are volunteer 8th grade girls...well anyway, I see the clock isn't started, and I hear a fan yelling about it...we soon have a foul called, and the fan continues to point out that the clock didn't start. During a couple dead balls the home coach had reminded my partners that the crowd could be beligerent and not to listen to them, and have them removed if they got that far. During the dead ball this idiot continues to yell that the clock didn't start....he is a visiting fan who's team is winning by 12, and he is berating the clock crew...during the dead ball I tell him "hey, leave them alone, they are volunteers. " to which i receive "tell them to start the god**mn clock"...I say ok that is enough, tell him you need to leave then ask game management to remove the gentleman. In the interem, he incites the crowd about his ejection...while we are at the table talking about how much time to take off, the home coach says, just call it, that fan's behavior is unacceptable (a visitors fan), we aren't going to play and justify this type of behavior.....I thought that it deserved a kudos....and granted I could have just let the guy stay, but an adult berating jur high girls volunteering time to run the clock and the book, well he just needs to leave the game and hopefully never return.....sorry for the long post....just wanted to say that our coaching brehteren, deserves a good word too.....
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