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Originally posted by fonzzy07
Away team man the coach was on me from the beggining. After one of his players got tangled up he was all over me for the no call. he walked out onto the court infront of the table. I should have given him a T but with me being all alone I didnt want things to escalate. Well needless to say he didn't back down. What should I do to help keep things under controll when I am all alone.
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You had the right instinct (don't want things to escalate), but the wrong action (failing to T the coach in fact did allow things to escalate). Next time, dinging an unreasonable coach will *help* to keep things under control.
As has been said, we've all done games solo when a partner didn't show up. In my experience, those games have gone incredibly well. Everyone in the gym seems to understand that you're going to miss some things. Unfortunately, that thought never occurs to people when there are two or three officials rather than one....
Recently, two of us who were assigned to the varsity game showed up in the second quarter of the JV game to discover that the JV game had one official on it (the other one failed to show). We changed and joined the solo guy for the second half doing a 3-person crew. The solo guy enjoyed it (not much experience doing 3-man) and I think the coaches enjoyed it, too.