[stripes]

Drake,

I think you handled the situation "by the book". Remember that the penalized rarely (if ever) feel like they deserve the penalties they receive. You gave the asst plenty of chances to do his job before the 1st and responses like his should get the second as quickly as we can get the whistle in our mouths.

This reminds me of a couple of games I did last summer in a tournament. Game 1 asst gets a T for talking inappropriately. Game 2 (two weeks later) asst gets T for being too demonstrative after no call. At halftime asst come up to me (very friendly) and wants to talk about the T. He thinks that the T is a holdover from the first game. He goes on at length about it. I finally tell him that he is an assistant coach and that the bench decorum regarding assistant coaches is very different than for head coaches and until he understands what acceptable behavior by an assistant is, he will get more Ts. He looks at me like I have 3 eyes and walks away. I said to my partner, there goes a guy who will never get it. BTW, most never do.

Good job Drake.