Problem Player

[Dad]

Originally Posted by Adam

I went ahead and marked all the times I would have called a T before they finally got to it, as well as the one they got (I would not have gone flagrant for that, but he probably wouldn't have lasted that long).

Seems to me that #2 was the problem child and the catalyst. The crew properly warned him before the game, so there's a good chance one of his comments to #15 early in the game would have earned a T if I heard it. If not, his stunt at the FT line would have.

Whether a T would have fixed him is unknown, but a second one would have at least removed the cancer.

You'd wack a player for walking away while trying to talk to him/her? I can see if something else is involved, but if a player just walks away from me I may make a mental note but I can't see a reason to T them.

[WhistlesAndStripes]

Originally Posted by Dad

You'd wack a player for walking away while trying to talk to him/her? I can see if something else is involved, but if a player just walks away from me I may make a mental note but I can't see a reason to T them.

I'd do that in a second. If I'm trying to talk to a kid like this, and keep from having to assess the T, and he cops the attitude that he doesn't have to listen to me and just turns and walks away, I'd whack him immediately.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Dad

You'd wack a player for walking away while trying to talk to him/her? I can see if something else is involved, but if a player just walks away from me I may make a mental note but I can't see a reason to T them.

I'm imputing my own motives to the C here. Frankly, the only conversation I'm having with him is an attempt to prevent a T by getting him to go get the ball he just rolled away. Short of him or a teammate going to get the ball immediately, it's a T. Had this been the first issue, I'm simply marking him as a trouble-child. But that's not what happened here.

Honestly, he's got the T (probably 2) from me long before that point, so it really doesn't get there.