I haven't had anything tragic happen but this Saturday I was doing a GV game and about the middle of the 2nd quarter the home team puts a shot up and it get wedged between the rim and the backboard. In a boys game, some boy would show his "superior masculinity" and jump to knock it out but we were lacking that (from the players, not the officials
Beat you to the joke
) on the court. One of the equipment people threw my partner another ball to dislodge the first one. He tosses it to me and I attempt to knock the ball loose. After three tries, I was unsuccessful at freeing that poor little ball
I hit the stupid thing squarely all three times from underneath but it wouldn't pop loose. Of course than one of the players came and launched the ball as hard as she could and it came loose for her on the first try. I was a little embarrassed but, most of all, I learned to let the player do it the first time and stay out of the situation
-Josh