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Originally posted by hbioteach
Jv Boys. Game in overtime. Partner is 1st year. Very poor mechanics or should I say non mechanics. Whistle blows, no signals, no one has a clue what the call is.
I call a foul on A1. Doulble bonus two shots for b1. Coach of B calls a timeout that he doesn't have. Team T on B. B1 shoots 2. A2 is shooting first of 2 technical foul shoots. I'm the T. Just as a2 is shooting partner blows whistle. No signal. Goes to table and says a had 6 on the floor during the shot.
I go talk to him to ask him what call is. He says A has 6 on the floor (5 nonshooters talking to coach on sideline). I'm trying to think of a way out of this. He is insistant on the call. Why was he even looking at this? I tell him to go report the T on A6 and we continue the game from there.
I know by rule he's right but... A loses by 5 in double OT because of that call.
Here's the question:
What do you do when your partner makes horrific call like that?
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I hope this wasn't the tone that you had on the court with your partner, presenting him as being completely horrible. That attitude puts you in a no win situation in this type of spot.
Additionally, I'd like to know what happened with the excessive timeout. I wasn't there, but maybe good preventative officiating by you, the vet, could have prevented an excessive TO technical in OT by team B. In my book, an excessive TO technical foul during a dead ball in OT is just as hard to justify from a game management perspective as the T for 6 guys on the court or bench personnel standing. If I'm coaching team A, and team B has just received an excessive TO technical, I'd make doubly sure my bench was in order.
Sounds to me like this was poorly managed in all regards, though you can't say the officiating "cost" anyone the game.