[derwil]

Today in a tourney had a team visiting from outside the local area where they are apparently more liberal with the use of the coach's box. V coach was really nice, asked a few questions on a couple calls but nothing ugly. Third quarter I'm lead going to trail (3 man) table side after a made bucket when I notice the V coach is almost at the scorer's table ~ 5 feet out of the box yelling at his players. I shew him back to the box and tell him I gotta have him in the area. He apologizes and says he was trying to get his player's attention. I again let him know that the expectation is to be in the coaching area - "Yea I know, I know" he says. Couple times after that I saw partners doing the same thing. He was always screaming at his girls and again wasn't being provocative to the officials.

The fact that he was not screaming at the officials and actually doing his job, we as a crew gave him the benefit of the doubt about the situation. If the H coach, who likes to chew a$$ when anything goes wrong, would have done the same thing we probably would be shooting free throws after a warning.

How much leash should we give a "nice" coach? He wasn't a problem but I could see it becoming an issue if the other coach had noticed it. Game management input?