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Old Sat Dec 24, 2005, 05:39am
SMEngmann SMEngmann is offline
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The thing about the coach/ref line is that it is essentially baiting a technical. It could be seen as a zinger in which any response gets the T. On the "travel" every time up the court, the best response I have used it basically, "Not on every call" or something to that effect. If the coach is interested in reasonable dialogue, I might ask him what he's seeing that I'm not so I have something specific to look for and he knows that I'm hearing him. Of course most guys who whine about every call/no call are not interested in reasonable dialogue. Personally I wouldn't use the coach/ref line because if I do have a T, my assignor could say that I baited that T, or could've handled it differently. Just doesn't look good IMHO.
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