Your Tolerance Level Compared to Your Partners

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Rec ball, just like middle school and sub-varsity, is a great learning experience. You can learn from this. Certainly you can learn that your partner is a bit off center and that everybody is a bit different. But did you learn that you needed to do a better pre-game conference and talk about this situation BEFORE it occured? It being Rec league, did you even have a pre-game discussion and if you did, did it last longer than a minute? Were you on the same page as your partner BEFORE the game started or were you just "hoping".

Certainly you did nothing wrong here, but LEARN from the experience and take steps to prevent it from ever happening again. Suggest a pre-game discussion on "when to help and when not to help" may be a solution. Even though it was "only a Rec league" and you weren't getting paid top dollar, situations like this tend to happen when you're unprepared.

Good luck! Unfortunately there are a lot of "those kind of officials" out there. So pre-game the situation BEFOREHAND and not let the hotheads take control.