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I had a game tonight (BJV) and a situation occurred with the starting "star" point guard on the home team. He is dribbling down the court for a fastbreak layup, but a very athletic player on the visiting team caught up and cleanly blocked his shot. The home player walks over to the padded part of the wall behind the basket and gives it a big kick. Would you give a T for unsportsmanlike conduct in this situation? Or would you let it go because he *might* just be mad at himself for missing a layup?
Later in the game the visiting coach is down by 2 toward the end of the game at a time out when the table calls me over. The scorekeeper was checking the books, and according to his records, the home team was down by 4. We informed the coaches of this and the visiting coach went ballistic. He started accusing the scorekeeper of only volunteering for that job so he could cheat to help that team win. I thought (very quickly) that the scorekeeper was technically a member of the officiating crew, and that the coach was questioning his integrity, so I gave him a T. He went and sat back down, but spent the rest of the game staring at me. What would you have done in this situation? Any feedback on both situations is appreciated.
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Sara
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