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I had a game where the home team was making a run under 3:00 left to tie the game.....during a fast-break I was L and A1 dropped a sweet pass to A4 who caught it and dunked it w/out dribbling - cut it to 1pt game, crowd went nuts. Unfortunately C waved it off for traveling - I literally said to myself - "you're f-ing kidding me!". I thought it was terrible; trying not to sell out my partner, I told Coach A that he had :30 to say whatever he wanted to me without penalty (during the timeout that immediately followed). He vented - I said "you're still in the game - don't let that one call bother you - let's play".
After the game, T asked C what he saw. C said he thought it was a travel - T claimed he was straightlined, I said nothing (it was bad enough that I thought the supervisor might get a call after the game...). As T and I got into the car after the game - we BOTH agreed it was a horrible call and we were shocked that he called it.
I guess the moral of the story is that you have to handle judgement calls and mechanics/rules breakdowns differently. If a dual-area call is made that is bad judgement, you can ask about what the calling official saw - but you can't jump him for it - it's his judgement (however bad it is). If it's a mechanics/rules issue, then I think you can be more forceful about addressing it. I don't think yelling does anything to solve or stop the situation from occuring again - you've got to find a way to either survive the remainder of the game or agree how you're going to handle the situation the next time it occurs (if in fact you work with that same person again).
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