[QUOTE=Da Official;653200]Thoughts on this one?
She begins to explain and while doing so Official #1 walks across the court about 5 ft away from Official #3 and the coach and says "This is your warning, coach."
Official #1 should have stayed out of the way. A warning is all well and good, but this wasn't the place to do it.
Coach, waves her hand and yells "Get back over there. I'm talking to this guy!" This immediately gets some chuckles from the stands. Official #3 waits to see how Official #1 (R) handles this. Official #1 turns around and walks back to the C.
In ANY OTHER SITUATION, when a coach tells me how or what to do anything, it's an easy T. Not so here because Official #3 stuck his/her nose somewhere it didn't belong (and while disrespectful, coach was right, this time). Others will say that HC should have been T'd anywys. I won't argue that point at all. #3 was being an OOO in this situation in my opinion.
1. How should Official #1 or Official #3 have handled this?
After half time the home team is up 15+ pts. Home coach is not questioning every call and has calmed down.. Later in the 3rd Quarter, Official #3 at the T, tableside ,hears the coach ask the table, "Hey what is the total foul count for both teams.....Not just this half but for the game."
Official #3 runs up the court and comes back and the home coach says, "The foul count is 20-6...........the foul count is 20-6."
Official #3 runs back up the court and comes back. This time the home coach says, "The foul count is 20-6, that's ridiculous".
Official #3, T's her up. Home Asst Coach says "What did he do that for?" Home Coach says "Because I said the foul count was 20-6". She sits down.
2. How should Official #3 have handled this?
Just as it was described. The HC even admitted that he/she knew why they got the T. Pretty simple.
After getting the seatbelt, Home Asst coach decides to stand continuously. Official #3 says to the standing coach, "You have to sit down."
Home AC says "I don't have to sit down. She got the technical not ME!"
Official #3 replies, "I'm not going to explain the rules to you, but you also have to take a seat."
3. How should Official #3 have handled this?
Given how things had gone so far, I'd have handled it the same way here also. In any other game where the coach is respectfully asking, I might take 10 seconds or less to explain the situation to the asst. coach.