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Two things
Last Sunday, I tossed a 7th grade coach. His player was fouled on the drive, I called it, then his player turned and threw the ball at the head of the player who had fouled him. WHACK. Coach yelled that he was "going OOB and was just trying to save the ball from going out" - if you can believe that. I told him the play was already dead and his player was going to shoot two FTs, and that he could have really hurt the other player. Coach threw out his hands and said I was nuts. WHACK. He then went on about how "we" (meaning my partner and me, I guess) didn't know what we were doing. I gave him the stop sign and said "That's enough, coach". He threw out his hands again and said we might has well toss him because it wouldn't matter anyway because we were "favoring the other team". WHACK.
His guy made one of two, a player from the other team made all six of his, they inbounded and hit a three. This all happened with about ten minutes left in the game. His team wound up losing by three. If they would have hit their free throws down the stretch, they would have won the game, but they missed at least seven or eight in the last two minutes.
Now the really good news. I just got my schedule for this coming weekend and one of my 7th grade games has a team coached by David Lucas (who I've mentioned a few times before). He's a terrific coach and this should be a lot of fun. That other coach has a game at the same time on the next court over, so I'll make sure I give him a wave as I walk by.
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Yom HaShoah
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