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Originally posted by icallfouls
I think that you might be missing JRut's point. My interpretation of what he said is that there are officials out there (could be anywhere) that prefer to give T's rather than take control of a particular situation. Officials that are not confident enough in themselves or do not like to have their calls challenged tend to hide behind T's rather than address specific situations.
I think his point is more along the lines that some referees lose their common sense and issue T's when they cannot deal with the situation in a different way. Alot of officials do not like to be questioned and when they are, they start "whacking" away.
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That was exactly the point I was making. I had a situation yesterday where a coach thought I missed a call. He addressed my across the court and I answered his question in the same fashion. He thought I blew a call and he might have been right. I told the coach, "if you saw it that way then I was wrong, but I cannot just make a call based on what you saw." The coach did not say another word about a judgment call the rest of the game. It was clear he wanted to be heard and he knew I listened to him. Many younger officials would have just T'd up the coach and considered the coach asking a question as a front to his ability.
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Originally posted by icallfouls
Ask most referees who have regularly worked at the state tournament, or on the college level in your area, and I would bet that most of them will say that game management will take care of alot of these situations. Get into a players ear, tell the coach that it is time to move on, etc. Coaches, players, and assignors would more often prefer this type of approach.
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Danny Crawford who is in the NBA and from Illinois came to the IHSA Official's Conference last year and spoke at the basketball clinic and to all officials later in the conference. He brought a tape that was provided by the NBA that showed many clips of officials dealing with players and coaches. You saw many star players and big coaches complaining about calls and you got to hear what was said and how it was handled. What I learned most on the tape was how the officials just listened. Some times the officials did not even speak until the player or coach finished talking. They would very specifically address what the coach said and would move on. On the tape many times the players or coaches would not like what the officials said, but they were heard and the officials would walk away and make it clear what call was made.
On the tape there was even a funny exchange between Larry Brown and I believe Danny Crawford. Crawford asked Brown a question and let Brown run his mouth for about a minute and then Crawford T'd him up. It appeared this exchange was during a FT but Crawford listened to Brown and let him hang himself. Now if this was a HS game and gave a T, there was more than enough evidence to provide to the assignor without a tape. Instead many younger officials or red-*** officials would have T'd Brown up before he said the worst things and it would have been his said, he said situation. Brown in the exchange got personal, questioned the officialÂ’s integrity and used many profanities. The comments were near the bench and it would have been very difficult to hear them in any loud gym. It was just interesting to see how they handled players and that filtered into my game this year.
Peace