Quote:
Originally posted by onejewlia
ALL the information was given, I was a spectator at the game and attend basketball games on a regular basis.
|
Julia, I mean no offense, so I hope these comments aren't taken the wrong way. But as I said before, there is very clearly more to this story. While your account gives the basic facts (a technical foul was called, a player was headbutted), not "ALL" the information was given. You said that the player
Quote:
|
began speaking with his other teammate about the incident. At that time the referee heard him speaking on the call and called a second technical foul and told him to leave the gym. The player was very upset at this time but remained in control. he did tell the referee no and became very vocal.
|
So we have the player talking to a teammate, which earned him another technical foul. Clearly he wasn't saying anything very complimentary to the official. Then the player "became very vocal" toward the referee. I'm sure he wasn't telling the ref how slim he looked in his stripes. After that, the player goes to complain to the site director. What the heck is he saying during this whole time?
My point Julia is that there is a big difference between a player saying, "Ref, I never touched him!" and a player cursing or insulting the official or directing racial slurs toward him, or whatever. I have no idea if any of those things were said. But you haven't given us ALL the information. That was all I meant. There
has to be more to this story than a kid got mad and a ref headbutted him. There just has to be. Almost nobody headbutts another person violently without some severe provocation. So for this ref to act that way, I'm just wondering what (if any) provocation was given.
Very respectfully,
Chuck