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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bradfordwilkins
my partners will NOT be supporting me.

After making my post I went back and read yours more carefully bradford. What a sense of deja vu overcame me. To me, it is the WORST when partners do not support me. Fortunately, it is infrequent because most know that I know what I'm doing. But when they make an outward disagreement with me I just want to send them into the stands. You better come and huddle with me like a professional and, to be honest, most do. Even when they make a ridiculous call I just turn my head away from everyone and raise my eyebrows at most, but I still support his call unless there was something worth huddling about and it was correctable.

Just last week in a Bantam game, I gave the coaches son a warning for a disrespectul tone he gave because he thought he got fouled on a lay up. I warned his coach/dad on the way back up the floor. Next time down this kid goes in for a lay up and I called the foul to which he sarcastically said, "thank youuuuuuu." Atypical for me I ignored that one but when he got on the line for FT's he said something else to me and in turn I whacked him. His daddy went beserk (which I expected having T'd various players of his over the years) and trapped me long enough that I gave him a quick and calm explanation then bolted to the other side of the gym. Now, here's the kicker. Right after we resumed play, I find my experienced partner, whom I never seen call a T, talking with the kid in what appeared to be a consoling manner during a stoppage in play. That pissed me right off. Then, after the game, I see my partner who is usually right out of there hanging around. I don't know for a fact but I'm pretty sure he was going to console the coach too. T is called and has been justified, now get the hell out of the gym you jackass: that's all he had to do.