What can you do after your partner calls a totally unjustified technical foul in the final minute of a tie game? Boys varsity game. Team A is holding the ball for the last shot. B1 goes for a steal and commits a foul. No complaints from anybody about the call. B1 chases the ball down and, on his way back toward the calling official, bounces the ball hard and catches it on the way up three times. No words, no gestures, no facial expressions, no delays. Still, my partner gives B1 a T. To compound matters, it was B1's fifth foul.

Other than listen to Coach B, what can you do? Once the T's out of the can, you can't really put it back in.

[Edited by stan-MI on Jan 14th, 2004 at 10:03 AM]

You support your partners decision, and talk about it in your post-game review.

stan-MI,
Was there that "All-Quiet-Stunned-Audience" sound emanating from the fans? :cool:
mick

Who won?
 

?

Actually, the call favored the home team. I was the one with the "All-Quiet-Stunned" look.

Suck it up. You're a team out there, and you're screwed either way. If it was really that bad, do what a buddy of mine did once on an equally bad call...walk up to the coach and say, "Coach, you've got 30 seconds to say whatever you want to me without penalty. Then I'm walking away."

Nothing more you can really do, besides make it a learning experience for your partner after the game. That and get an escort out to your car. ;)

You deserve it. You get all the good games anyways! :)
And, too, we can pick our nose and pick our friends, but not always pick our partners.

I just got my partner out of the way to administer the FTs to avoid any confrontation with the coach. Then I let the coach vent, finished the game and waited for the call from the supervisor.

I don't think my partner will make that call again in that situation.

Ooooo, I like that one. I'm gonna have to use that sometime.

Great idea!

I did this earlier this year but I told the coach.."don't yell or swear".

FWIWHWIWD. That's: for what it's worth
 

here's what I would do.

I would go to my partner and have a heart to heart talk. Perhaps I could convince her/him the T was unwarranted. Perhaps s/he would tell me something I hadn't seen. If it turns out EVEN S/HE, upon reflection, thought it was unwarranted,
I would go to the table, tell them the foul call was actually an inadvertent whistle, and put the ball back in play without discussion.

Except in the tournament . . . I might not do it then . . . but maybe . . . nothing, absolutely nothing, supercedes trying to get a fair game.

Re: FWIWHWIWD. That's: for what it's worth
 

While I agree in part, if your partner makes the call of a T then I support them wholeheartedly for the crowd to see. I may go to the coach with the let em vent, I would in no way say i disagree with my partner. Talking to them after the T is signalled is too late..... IMHO

Sounds like someone was having a very bad day!

A Veteran once told me:

...let the official that is going to change the call, make the change. Therefore, let the calling official change his/her call after you both have huddled.

RD

Can you really "un-ring the bell" on this one?

You've already made a clear foul call, and a T, in plain view, for all to see. One team clearly could benefit and/or win the game because of it. What if that coach insisted on shooting the T?

I agree fair is fair, but you're potentially opening up a super-sized can o'worms.

You can discuss a lot of things and change a lot of calls - but I don't think you go to him on this during the game and attempt to change a T. It's a bad time for a bad call, but you're going to have to back this one and discuss after the game.

I worked a game once in which a very experienced official reported a foul to the table, turned back toward the court, heard an unflattering comment and then banged the home team head coach.

When he turned back to the table to report the T, the whole home bench was saying that the coach didn't say anything. A kid in the second row "admitted" that he'd made the comment. The official then rescinded the T.

Well, now the visiting coach goes nuts. And he's notorious for going nuts. He informs me that they're playing the rest of the game "under protest". :)

I didn't have the heart to tell him there's no such thing as "under protest". Visiting team won anyway, but it was ugly to get thru.

I saw that happen in game when a official called a "t" because he heard a coach curse.The other official came up and explianed it was a fan not the coach.they waved it off and everyone was ok.Its more important to get it right.Thats if you can convince your partner.