Wed Feb 02, 2005, 01:03pm
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Re: Re: Rich
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
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Originally posted by Goose
Sounds good to me, but since I wasn't there, I can't personally comment on was it or wasn't it. The important part is that both of you saw it and both of you agreed that it was not a dunk. Case closed.
Simply put, tell the coach it was a judgment thing and that the rulebook in some of these cases are merely guidelines to follow.
Lastly, despite what he thinks, it is your interpretation, and you are doing the game, not him.
goose
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He ended up getting a technical with 1:17 left in the fourth quarter of a three-point game.
He wasn't well behaved the whole game, but I didn't want to look like I was out for bear after the pregame incident, so I kept him on a slightly longer leash than I should've.
I was the trail putting the ball in play on the baseline for the home team. The ball was thrown poorly towards midcourt and the defender was about to catch the ball when a player from the home team swooped in and clipped the home player's arm. My partner was behind this play and didn't have a good angle, so I hit the whistle, closed, and made the call myself. It was a call that had to be made -- if we would've left this go, home would've gotten an unwarranted possession down three with 1:17 left in the game.
The home coach requests and my partner grants a full timeout. Partner reports and is intercepted by this coach. Coach spends the first thirty seconds of this timeout at center court arguing with my partner (not about the quality of the call, but that *I* made the call). Partner was trying to get him back to his huddle and partner told me afterwards he didn't realize how far out on the floor he was during this scene. At this point, I left my block and started walking towards this scene and called a technical (we can go into why I called this and my partner didn't later, but let's just say I'm much more of a veteran than my partner, although he does a terrific job officiating).
So this is why I feel terrible. 1:17 left in a 3-point game and now we have four free throws and possession. They sink 2 of the 4 and the game ends with a five point margin.
If I had to do this all over again, we would've started the game with a seatbelt and free throws (and not because of the supposed dunk, either). That's what I'm kicking myself over this morning. Either that or not calling a technical earlier in the game.
But like they say, I'm still learning. And after saying I don't call technicals often, I've called two in two nights. Same school -- girls coach on Monday and boys coach last night.
[Edited by Rich Fronheiser on Feb 2nd, 2005 at 12:19 PM]
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I'm sorry Rich, this is all my fault.
That is much nicer than telling you, "I told you so!" 
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