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2 for 2
Had my first post-season assignment as "R" the other night on the girls side. We are in the locker room, finish our pre-game with approx 20 mins to go on the locker room clock before the tip so we start to head to the floor to see what's up. The clock is running with both teams on the floor and the clock under 12 - still don't know if our clock was slow or they started early. By the time I get to the table, the visitor's roster is entered in the official book with starters marked, but home team is blank and their book is nowhere to be found. By the time we find it (girl who had it was wandering around), the clock is under 10 and no starters marked. So I start my post-season "R" career with a tech. I'm confident I handled correctly by rule, but ideally I would have been at the table sooner and we would have been fine - I know not my responsibility, but would anybody file this one under "game management" and let it go given the time situation?
Second night of regional I am U2, game is not close. Losing coach chirps a little early about wanting a hand check, but there is zero displacement and barely if any contact, and the first chance I get I tell him that. Late in the game I am T in front of his bench and his girl gets pushed going up the sideline and I have the foul. As I turn to report he lets out a loud laugh and says "so that is the displacement you were talking about?". My reply "yes coach that was displacment"..coach - "Well then that was a good call"...me - "thank you"...him - "that is supposed to be a point of emphasis but you didn't know that did you?"....me - whack.
Any thoughts/feedback? I wonder if i didn't instigate just a tiny bit with my reply of "thank you" when he was clearly being facetious? I think at that point he was just frustrated that his season was ending and was sort of asking for it - there was zero response whatsoever to the tech, not a word, never got off the bench...
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