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Originally posted by Forksref
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
I worked a Juco playoff game on Saturday. I called a foul on a player during a scramble for a ball on the floor. The kid got up and walked over to me like he wanted to chat about it. I just said "Get out of my face," and his teammate pulled him away.
Another official who was in the stands said that after the kid moved away from me, he gestured "impolitely" at my back; pointing and probably saying something. I would have T'd it if I'd seen it, but it was behind me.
Maybe the officials in that D2 game simply didn't see the "choke" gesture if there was something else happening on the floor.
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Chuck, many times I see these officials try not to look at the coaches so that they avoid the stare or the gesture when reporting a foul, signalling a violation or during a TO. I can understand them trying to avoid problems, but this time the action of the coach was apparent to everyone else in the arena. I guess I have to assume they didn't see it, but if they did, then they blew it.
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One of my technicals this season was on a coach gesturing at my partner's back. I'll NEVER pass on this -- if a coach is going to do something so cowardly, I'll whack him every time.
On the "leaving to report," I'm with Dan. 2-person or 3-person, I hope I'm not leaving the scene of the foul until the players are up and separated. But I'm also with Chuck -- 2 officials should've been able to handle the players.