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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
The real beauty of these kinds of discussions is that we can both be very successful with our approaches 
Just to clarify a couple points, if you already know that your partner is going to sit the coach, that's fine. The point is to get the calling official away from the coach and to give him a few seconds to calm down. A second benefit is that it can also help keep the crew from screwing up. I work with many less experienced officials, but it was a more experienced official who thought he was doing me a big favor by getting everybody quickly lined up to shoot while I was reporting a T. Only he had us shooting at the wrong basket. You can imagine how well that went over.
Second, it isn't actually necessary to go back near the coach to report. The foul reporting area is vast. If the calling official administers the T, which is the way we do it on my crews, then you can turn from your huddle, report from where you are, and hustle off to the endline to administer the free throw. The next contact that coach will have will be with your partner, putting him in an ideal position to deliver the second T if it is warranted. |
I completely agree the crew needs to get together, I just don't agree with your sequence.
For me call it, report it, get away and talk to your partner seems less risky than call it, get away, talk to your partner and go back toward the coach to report...if you are using the foul reporting area that is in the manual, it isn't that vast...even if you aren't near the coach, the act of coming back and giving the T to the table, to me anyway, seems like it can be seen as an aggressive act.