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Originally Posted by ballgame99
Final 7 seconds, home team is out of timeouts and down 4 in a very tense game; home team inbounds and knocks down a 3 with less than 5 seconds to play, so H12 grabs the ball and chucks it, literally, into the second level of seats. Whack. Home bench is whining because they think they are entitled to a DOG warning. Home coach was livid, and pretty much begging for another T, but with 1 second left and the one T already called, I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.
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I would personally get away from the line of thinking of not giving a T or a ejecting a T because it would "give the [coach] satisfaction."
Often times, there are state sanctions that come along with an ejection. If a coach is skirting these punishments because of officials thinking the coach is going to get some type of satisfaction, then we're doing ourselves a disservice. Sometimes, all it takes is a 1-2 game suspension to change a coach's future actions.
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