" Maybe someone needs to get tossed and suspended all season to get people in line."
One more thought to add... one of the hardest things I deal with, as I'm sure some of you who take the time to come on here and continue your referee education, is most of the time my partners will NOT be supporting me.
Whether it be because its Fraternity game and one of the refs is in another Frat, thus doesn't want to ruin his rep as a cool dude to invite to parties, a lack of understanding of the rules of basketball or just not having the balls to stand up to someone.
Just last week I had two partners sell me out. First one, I had called two lane violations for BLANTANT violations that resulted both times in the defender getting the rebound since he was stepping in at release. The partner calls out from under the hoop up to me to calm down and just let them play. Thanks for the credability undermining
. Later same game I had a player come up to me after a foul and just to express himself, yelled right at me "Thats bull**** man" WHACK! As I'm walking up to report it, partner says he didn't hear anything (I was lead and he was trail) I told him what he said... partner says I don't have the right to call a technical without a warning if both of us didn't hear it. OY!
Second game was the situation I ran by the board earlier this week... had the guy bearhug someone without the ball from behind and begin to pull him backwards. X Intentional foul. Called a quick conference with partners to let them know whats up. One of my partners starts screaming thats not an intentional foul. And repeating it louder and louder, even calling me a dumbass as one point. I explained he clearly wasn't making a play for the ball and thus it was an intentional foul. The other ref tried to talk to me like I haven't been involved with basketball since I was 3 years old, explaining that while its technically an intentional, you shouldn't call it where it can effect the game. GEEZ. Meanwhile, the other partner is bantering with the players about he's sorry that "He (read: me) doesn't know what he's talking about" Obviously after that I had no choice but to take a bit of a verbal beating from the offending team for a minute really. Gave them a warning after a little and moved on.
Those partners have had me wish we could eject officials haha