[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Refk

I was officiating boys MS basketball game with a new partner last week. The first game of the night went very well as did the second game until about 1 minute left. H1 goes up for layup and misses, V1 gets rebound. I start heading the other way and see that home team steals ball and goes up for layup, as I'm changing direction it "appears" that H1 gets hammered going up for layup. Partner (lead) doesn't have anything... Home coach is very upset (has been exemplary all game) and comes out on the floor and yells at partner "You have to call that or someone is going to get hurt ". Partner T's him up.....

I'm talking with the coach, trying to "cool things off" as FT's administered..... He says to me, " There's only a minute left and we are behind by 10 so the foul doesn't make any difference in the game , I get that,,,,, but he's gotta call something, my player really could have gotten hurt". I tell the coach that my partner had a really good look at the play and maybe from his view (coach's) it looked like a foul but I have trust my partner. Coach calmed down and was fine with my explanation.

As we are entering locker room, partner says "That coach is out of his mind if he thinks I was going to call that foul with 1 minute left. The player got fouled but he should have made the layup the first time". The comment took a few seconds for me to process......... as we are starting to get dressed he asked what I thought and I told him I call the game till the buzzer goes off and I would have called it if it was a foul. He didn't say anything else, grabbed his belongings and left without saying a word.

Did I handle it right ?? I have him a couple more times this year .

Thanks

Great answer in my books.