I wonder if there is a diplomatic way to explain to the players about the situations where a coach tells them to do something and it results in a violation or foul, and when you subsequently call it, they tell you that the coach told them to do it.
An example would be a coach calling a player over to the bench for a consult during a free throw where the player leaves the lane. I'm sure there are many others, such as a coach instructing a player to foul, then you calling the intentional.
Probably, most coaches wouldn't want you to cover this.
Maybe we could just put it this way:
rule #1) when a coach tells you to do one thing and an official tells you to do the other, the official is always right
rule #2) when in doubt, see rule #1
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