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Originally Posted by grunewar
With a subject line like - " Juulie, the streak is snapped," I thought you were going to tell us that Mark had an OT game last night!  Nah...... |
No, but we almost did. I haven't had a game closer than 10 points all season, but last night's teams were a special brand of inept. Here's an example:
Visiting team had one timeout left. Players are diving on the floor (as was the case many times last night). Player from the visiting team hits the ball towards the endline and a player from the home team jumped on the ball. Everyone (including me, the T) thought the ball was going to the visiting team, but my partner clearly and convincingly signaled that the ball had hit the endline before the home player dived on it.
The visiting coach wanted an explanation and instead of getting our attention called a timeout, which I granted immediately as a 60-second timeout, his last timeout. He got an explanation, then, as my partner walked over and told him what happened, but he was now out of timeouts.
He could've used that down 3 points with about 10 seconds left. Instead, they jacked up a 3 that didn't even touch the rim.
I did find an interesting scenario, though, that I guess just shows why I'm not a coach. 4 seconds left, home team up 4. Visiting team is out of timeouts, home team uses its last one, a 60-second timeout. I walked up to my partner, who used to be a girls varsity coach, and mentioned I'd leave the girls in the huddle (on the court) and let the visiting team score and the clock would run out after the score. Of course, the home coach pressed and could've (but didn't) foul the 3-point shooter.
During the fourth quarter, I almost had to have a visiting fan (father, I presume) removed. He was screaming in our direction the whole game, but it was the usual idiot fan stuff that's easily ignored. Then he said after yet another six girls dove on the floor, "You need to blow the God damned whistle" loud enough to be heard over the din. I'm not religious, but combined with the other crap, he had pretty much crossed over whatever line I have (which is usually hearing, ignoring, and internally laughing at them). It was during a 60-second timeout and I looked in the corner for the game manager, who had just walked out of the gym for a moment. I noticed the timer had a walkie-talkie and I walked over to check the books and told the timer that he needed to get the game manager on the walkie-talkie cause "that chucklehead right behind you in the red sweatshirt and mustache is about to go." The timer said he had already taken care of it and within a minute, the game manager was up in the stands.
The whole thing was funny in a way, cause his wife was clearly embarrassed and was trying to shut him up. Other parents were yelling at him, too.
Oh, I named the thread as I did because I made a joke about 3-second violations in the past and I thought Juulie rolled her eyes at me. Maybe not, I'm getting older in my older age.