Just a rough night...

[bballref3966]

JV boys game, 3-man. I had probably six block/charge plays that came right at me. First half was going smoothly, until one block/charge play that went against V. V's coach loudly tells me "YOU'RE CRAZY!" Whack #1. Second half, my less experienced partner has another block/charge that goes against V, and the coach jumps off the bench and starts stomping his feet in disgust. I called his second T from C opposite table. He then stared me down for probably thirty seconds before leaving the court (which I included in my report).

I could've sent him when he made a comment to one of my partners along the lines of "I'm glad you called that because your buddy [referring to me] wasn't going to." I'm actually pissed that my partner didn't toss him on that because I had to clean up after him later.

I'm frustrated. Because I felt like I was the only one that was willing to take care of business tonight. The most senior partner on my crew just coddled the coaches the entire game, including the V coach after I'd already booted him.

But my biggest regret was that although I took care of business with the V coach, I didn't have the stones to T the H coach. He was not demonstrative, but asked for explanations on every call and insisted on officiating for us. I tried to hard to be a "communicator" with him, rather than shutting him up, which I should've done. I guess in the moment I just didn't want to be the official that called three T's on coaches in one night. Ugh.

Anyway, this game ends up going into OT, and we have a mini-scuffle late in the period and the H assistant coach runs onto the court. So he got tossed, too. The acting V head coach and the H coach were jawing at each other in OT. We got the hell off the court as soon as that final horn sounded.

Just a rough night. Mad at myself for not taking care of business enough, mad at my partners for not taking care of business at all. Guess that's just the way it goes sometimes.