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Z ,
I agree his method was a little crude but apparantly he read his audience well and it was highly successful in getting me to remain in my primary . When / if I do use this when mentoring I will probably use a more lightheated approach as that is my personality . My partner has a different way of communicating but it was effective in this instance.....I do plan on asking him if he has done this before .
This weekend I did a set of games with him and during the last one the coach of one of the teams starts complaining before the game even starts and just continues the whole game (Not loud but barely enough for us to hear). I T him up midway thru the first half and then at half my partner tells me that the guy is really gonna have to say something out of line to get the second T because there was no way he was gonna let that coach get out of the broiling hot gym and enjoy the best day of the year if he couldn't get outside.
Late in the game during a timeout the coach asks us if we are "patched" because I was wearing a plain ref shirt as was my partner . My partner just looked down at him and said "No,but we did stay at a Holiday Inn last night" coming from him (As I have said he is a large intimidating man )it might have been one of the funniest things I have ever heard . Coach spent the rest of the game sitting on the bench sweating and did not say another word the whole game .
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