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Originally posted by daves
Twice this year I have sensed a momentum swing in games that i believe were as a result of fouls that I have called. Both times they were on technical fouls. In the first instance I called a foul on player B1. A was in the double bonus. When I went to report the foul the head coach for B said, "you can call that sh*t in the parking lot" I immediately T'd him. A1 made all 4 free throws and A got the ball out the division line. A then scored on that possession, leading to a 6 pt. swing. Prior to that, team B was winning the game handily. The T seemed to take the wind out of B's sails and they ended up losing by 5. Other than the T, my partner and I didn't call it any differently from start to finish.
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I sense from your language that you didn't lose a lot of sleep over this, but I just want to clarify that YOU REFS did not swing this game. The coach who made the remark did. When my daughter was playing, we were startled to see how much effect the coach's attitude had on the girls. We finally talked to the caoch about it, and told him if he didn't control himself a little better, our daughter would no longer play for him. (Fortunately for us, she was clearly the best player on the team, and usually scored 15 to 20 points per game -- at 8th grade level). He had to get himself under control. It was pathetic to hear his own daughter say, "Daddy, don't say that so loud -- you want Jessica to play on Friday, don't you?" As he quit yelling at the refs, he coached more, and the girls all did better and better. I still see this today, when a coach gets a T, his/her team either gets into the groove and zooms ahead, or they simply collapse. But it is the coach's choice, not the Ref's.