Technical freethrows?

[ilya]

In my game yesterday, my teammate got hit w/ a T for saying "Is the ball part of the body?". the other team shot Fts. that's all cool.

now, in OT, we were down by 2 w/ 13 secs left. My teammate fouls B1 (i'm on team A). he tries a steal, actually, but ends up grabing him on his arm, so that B1 falls on his @ss.
NO CALL! so, B2 gets the ball, sprints down the court, and A2 fouls him hard. Intentinal foul, no cmplains. B2 then yells "Get him the f*ck off me!". T-time! The ref reports the T to the table, and all. He reported it as a Double-Techincal (his hands were crosed above his head; that's a signal for a double-foul right?; besides, he told me that's what it was ). They shoot there intentinal foul freethrows (2 shots), and get he ball back. BUT! WE DIDN"T SHOOT ANY TECHNICALS! their player missed both of his shots, and we could have tied the game if we made both of ours, and there would be about 5 secs left.
Why were't we awarded freethrows?
The coach asked the ref, and he said... "Because it's a double foul!"???? I just didn't get that.


Also, there were so many horrible calls! And one of the problems is that the ref 50 feet away was making the call, not the ref 5 feet away. I asked that ref why wasn't he calling anything, and he said that maybe he was looking somewhere else or just didn't think it was a foul. I don't think that ref made a single call during the game, when he was close to the play.

what do you think about all that?


btw, Mark, that was in HYB. do you know the refs from there? Do you know if they get a lot of complains about their officiating?