Almost Met My No-T Goal

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Before the season I set a goal for myself to have no "preventable" T's on coaches. I wanted to improve my communication with the coaches and be able to avoid T's by being a better communicator. I almost made it...three weeks to go but I won't be able to say I met my goal.

Boys JV. Competitive game most of the way. These two schools used to be rivals...not sure what the rivalry is like these days. Keep in mind that where I work, JV games don't count for anything in the standings...they are meant to get the end of the varsity bench some playing time.

Final minute, Team B leads Team A by 3. Team A shoots, and the ball rebounds high off the rim. B1 jumps more or less straight up for the rebound, and A1 jumps toward B1 from about four feet away. A1 gets a piece of B1's arm and gets body on the way through too. I call the foul on A1 from the L tableside, right in front of A's bench. Coach A loses his s#^* as I point out our shooter to my partner (bonus situation). I head toward the table and am about to report the foul but he's still incredulous. I give him the stop sign but he runs right through it, and I T him. He's still yelling after the T but I've tuned him out by now.

I think Team B missed three of the four free throws that followed, but Team B ended up winning by 3.

Can't decide the best part. It's either that my assignor was there to witness the whole thing or on the way out Team A's varsity coach joked (I think) to me that I should have thrown Coach A out!

It sucks that I won't be able to meet my goal but at least it was a no-doubter.