[JLK]

I had something like this happen to me the very last game of this past season. Boy's game. Home team has ball and player gets past defender and drives the baseline. As player goes around the defender, the defender throws a high elbow to the back of the offensive player's head. There was no contact made but because where the swing was aimed at, I tossed the defender from the game. He got beat and tried to take a cheap shot at the player (not very good sportmanship, I'd say).

Defender's coach never said a word to me when I called it.

Let's be honest, do you think most coaches (other than the ones on this board) are going to know (or much less care) that you should have called a flagrant intentional foul vs a technical foul when it comes to a player ejection for specific situations?

And if a coach does question me on what type of foul I'm calling concerning an ejection, I'm going to tell him that regardless of what foul call I make, the player's action warranted his/her removal from the game.

Lastly, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but are not both types of fouls in an ejection situation going to do the following:

1. going to toss a player from the game
2. count toward's the team's foul total
3. require a write up to the state association

When and what to call is important but if something that unsportmanship like occurs, it's best to nip in the bud right away. So you use the wrong call signal in this situation, but get offending player out of the game, I'm not going to lose sleep over it.