"Protect" partner or let him TKOB?

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The only thing we pregamed was what we were doing if we whack a coach. We didn't address player T's, so the consensus seems to be that we could have possibly avoided the confusion by doing so.

However, it seems like the majority opinion is that staying tableside after a player T is generally the right thing to do, and that the R didn't need to come in to "rescue" the young guy (who was in his third season). That probably only made it harder for the U2 to gain any respect from the coach. I can see the logic more so if this was a guy in his first varsity game who was obviously very nervous, but this official knew exactly what he was doing and deserved to be on this game (my feeling is if you're working college basketball like this guy then there's no reason you can't do a varsity game). We should have whacked the coach, and the R shouldn't have been so insistent on avoiding the T.

Also, I should have wrote "TCOB" instead of "TKOB" in the thread title.