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I'll pipe in...
I know stripes....I probably know the other official.
Stripes would never leave a partner intentionally hanging, and would intervene if necessary.
Now to be specific... I think that in our association it is viewed as somehow inherently evil or a breakdown on our fault if we call a T.
How many guys had the guts to call a T on our former Bingham coach?
I called a T on a coach for yelling at me a couple of yeras back... There was a hard foul in the paint. He cam off the bench yelling " You have to call something" three or four times.. after he got passed me then he yelled, I have a player hurt. He thought he could scream and yell to the paint and then get away with it by yelling his kid was down. I called the T.. After the kid was going to the bench my partner tells this guy that he has a T, he will be sitting the rest of the game. He yells "That's crap!" and pushes my partner ( shades of Jerry Sloan). Of course my partner whacks him and we send him packing. After the game the two varsity guys come down and say we could have handled it better and both of them said and they were dead serious that they had not called a T in 15 years of officiating.
I think officials get blamed for T's instead of looking at it a just another foul. We call blocks and charges, when a player breaks the rule. Yet it is somehow our fault when a coach gets a T.
I had a game couple of weeks ago. I called a T and he yelled back it's about time ( You think he wanted one?) I did his game about 4 weeks later and he was running around near the dressing room and he said I'll be better tonight, and he told me he wanted the T at the time to fire up his kids and if that did not work then he did not have to worry much about hard coaching that game cause he was sitting (his team was down 20-4 in the first four minutes of the game)
I also think that officials in general dont like issuing penalties that are two shots and the ball.... I'd like to go to the NBA rule. 1 shot point of interruption. Coach you got my attention and half way out the door! but doesn't break the flow of the game....
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