Technically speaking

[Rich]

I called another one tonight. Second of the season, this one in a girls' varsity game.

Visiting coach is shouting "travel," "over-the-back," "three-seconds" anything he can think of to try to buy a call.

He screams for a travel just as partner calls one from right in front of him. Partner talks to the coach and tells him (nicely) to knock it off as it looked liek the coach prompted the whistle. Coach is belligerent about it and tells my partner that "I have the right to talk and question calls." Partner gets nowhere with him and the game continues.

A bit later partner has the same conversation with the coach at the start of a timeout. Partner says that we'd heard enough of him shouting at us -- we'd be glad to talk to him in a civilized tone.

Guess coach felt that he used up all my partner's rope but he still had all mine to work on. After partner rightly no-calls a potential backcourt situation (B was the first to touch a loose ball in the backcourt although A put it there and A came away with it) coach starts questioning it.

Then, as the ball starts up the other way he starts on me. I quickly told him that we had heard enough of him calling the game. He quickly came back with something and I whacked him.

He couldn't BELIEVE I had called a technical on him. But that was pretty much the last I heard from him the rest of the game and the technical was right at the start of the second quarter.