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Situation in last night's game.
Home team is top ranked girls team in the state. (actually they won the mythical National Championship last year)
4th quarter,less than 2:00 remaining. Girl on visiting team
comes close to a travel, but is subsequently fouled.
Girls on home team start complaining about a travel.
So I say to them, "You are up by 23 points, relax."
Meaning, at that point in the game, with the score as it is,
you really don't need to be giong crazy over a possible travel call. Captain says "You still need to call the travel" I say to her, "it was close", she then seemed to accept that and said "ok".
Less than a minute left, we are shooting free throws and I notice, the captain saying something to her head coach and I hear the assistant say, "That's not right!" I then know she is talking about my statement. Couple more trips down the floor, in what is now close to a 30 point game, and I can feel the Home coaches daggers shooting at me. As I run by, he says, "the score doesn't matter". I ignore him.
Visiting team calls timeout. Home coach walks onto the floor, and proceeds to say to my PARTNER (not me) that my comments were unprofessional, and that the score doesn't mean we don't make calls. (in theory I agree, but reality is otherwise.) I try to walk him back to the bench by placing my hand on his back and saying "Coach, let's walk back to your bench while we talk." He then pulls away and says, "take your hands off me." By the way, I have used this technique many times and NEVER had a coach take exception to it. He then threatens to send a tape to the state!? At this point my thought is to "T" him up since he wants to be a jack-a***. After all, HE came onto the floor.
Yeah, send a tape to the state and let them see you on the floor, me, trying to use discretion by helping you back to the bench without wacking you, and see what they say.
Anyway, I'm mainly venting. I would still tell players in a game that is a blowout, not to get freaky about a call in the last minute of the game.
I have lost any respect I may have had for this coach.
To me, his taking offense at me trying to walk him back to the bench was saying, "I'm Mr. Big time head coach, you can't tell me what to do."
Any thoughts?
Drake
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