[Rick82358]

JR -
I see your point and it is well taken with regard to being fair. However in this particular situation as described nothing was fair.
A message needed to be sent through a technical foul - or a few quickly called fouls on the press, before the game busted out into a travesty or a brawl.
We send messages through every call that we make - basically they all say do not do that.
Last night as a favor to a friend I had the priviledge of working a grade school Christmas tourney here in town and something similar to this situation arose in one of the games.
7th grade game early second half and one team is up 25 and still pressing - the team trailing can barely get the ball across mid-court. When the team would steal the ball they we driving to the basket and making passes off the backboard and behind the back to trailers even with no defender around - and doing some celabrating also. They built a 35 point lead it started to get a little physical. (By the way they had committed 1 foul and the other team had committted about 5 fouls) They continued to press at the urging of the fans who were hoot'n and holler'n to beat the band. This was gooing to get really ugly really fast.
So I was the trail, on the next inbound we got three quick fouls on their press before the ball got across mid court - and the coach dropped them off. they still dominated the game and ran up the score, but the game became manageable and the possibility of having other problems stopped too.
IMO I think of that as game managment. Nothing I did with those three foul calls would effect the outcome of the game - but it did accomplish the goal - It got them to stop and prevented further problems.
JMO.