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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Lah me....didn't want to ruin a relationship.....
You're officiating a game, not hosting the Dr. Phil show.
If you ever want to develop into a real live, honest-to-goodness official some day, you're going to have to grow some balls. It's that simple.
As usual though, feel free to come up with some lame excuse why you shouldn't have called a "T".
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No excuses this time. I didn't take care of business and it bothered me. A friend of mined once told me after a game we worked. I like to sleep at night. I never lost any sleep calling a deserved T, but if I failed to call a deserved T, I would be up all night kicking myself for not.
I wonder if this is not one of those issues that officials don't like to talk about openly. I mean there's some serious influential people in the basketball world. You go T up the wrong coach and that could effect your ability to keep a strong schedule. If you put too much emphasis on getting a DI schedule for example, you want to stay away from stuff like this and try to keep all relationships positive. This is a double edge sword for the official. Damn if you do, damn if you don't. I bet there are many coaches that know this.