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I have to be honest. One of the few things that really gets my emotions going during a basketball game is a comment like this one. I had a situation last year in a which coach said that I had "made up" a travel call against his team. I told him that if I heard anything like that comment again he would sit. He got the message.
Usually a coach is not really questioning your integrity. He's just frustrated and doesn't know what to say. So if you ask him, "Coach, are you saying that I'm cheating for the other team?" he'll always say no. And he'll realize (hopefully) that he doesn't want to cross that line.
In your situation, if the coach let it go at that point, I would be inclined to say that you did a good job of diffusing it. If he said it across the court, then the T would've been in order. I guess this is just another of those "you had to see it" things. But from your description, I think I would handle it the same way you did.
Chuck
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