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I think that the original context is being lost here. What we had was a play that would have been a violation had the carried dribble been continued. But the defender swiped the ball as it was being carried, so there was no violation. In this case, the ref is just giving a warning of a potential future violation, not passing on the call and issuing a warning.
As for coaching, I had a ref last year who called one of my players for a hold on an inbounds play. We reset for the inbounds, she gets whistled again. The second was an absolutely atrocious call - all contact was initiated by the offense (three successive hard forearms to the back before my player made any contact) - but that's beside the point other than the fact tha now my player has two fouls AND is really POd about the second. I am trying to sub for her, while the ref proceeds to deliver a lecture to her about her fouling and how if she keeps this up she will be gone, blah, blah, blah. . . I was more mad about the lecture than the bad foul call. Leave the coaching to me.
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