[LSams]

Understand the importance of the game, but remember you are there to do your job.

I got into some trouble by giving a coach too much rope in a District final one year. In retrospect he should have received a technical in the first half (at half time our crew discovered that all three of us had warned him separately in the first half) we all were trying to give him a little extra leeway because of the importance of the game.

Fast forward to last minute of two point game, I'm trail going to lead and literally run into him while he is out on the court at the mid-court stripe yelling about a call on the other end. Now I have no choice but to T him up. Two free throws and ball for the opponent; the two point game is now a 6 point game.

Situation would/could have been prevented if we had communicated the warnings and given him a deserved tech in the first half -- instead of three warnings.