Stupid Coach

[rainmaker]

Actually, I heard two of them today.

1) Middle of second quarter, B1 commits an obvious foul, we put A1 on the line to shoot one-and-one. She hit the first, missed the second, B gets the rebound, as B is bringing the ball back the other way, coach is complaining about having only 3 team fouls. I ignore him, because I know I called at least 4 myself. He requests a TO, I grant it and he starts in about how we weren't paying attention and blah, blah, blah (his team was ahead by 15 at this point). I listen patiently for a minute, and then say, "Coach, I'm sorry, I don't understand the point of what you're trying to say." He says, "This is the second quarter. We only have 3 team fouls in the second quarter, so they shouldn't have shot those free throws." I still don't get his point, (remember I haven't been watching a lot of NBA!) and I say, "Coach you have 9 team fouls in the first half. The count doesn't start over until the second half." He looks at me blankly for about two seconds, and then says, "But we've only got 3 team fouls in this quarter." The light finally dawns, and I say, "Coach this is straight high school rules. Team foul count doesn't start over until the second half. This is your time out. Your girls need an explanation." After the time out, he looked at the other coach with his eyebrows up. That coach kindly and quietly said, "The rules are different from the NBA."

2) Near the end of the third quarter, the game is very close with lots of ties and lead changes. At this point, A is ahead by maybe 2 or 3, and they have the ball at their end of the floor. A1 drives down the sideline to the endline, turns sharply toward the basket and drives hard to get the lay-up. I didn't get a good look at the play, since I was trail, and I had my hands full with a couple of pairs of players posting up, and a defender who already had 4 fouls from chucking the cutter. I think the dribbler and the cutter-chucker were the only ones involved, and the contact was severe enough that they both ended up on the floor. I'm sure the defense didn't have LGP, but I don't know what the dribbler did that may have caused contact. Anyway, my partner no-called it, the ball squirted out of bounds, and P awarded the ball to the defense. As players were getting ready for the in-bounds, Coach A, who was right in my ear is howling about the no-call. He then says to me, "So was that all ball?" I turn and look at him. I'm thinking, "WHAT?!?!" He says, "I'm just asking, it's just a question. Was that all ball?" I said, "No, I think there was some contact." He says, "Okay, I'm just asking, that's all, I just wondered what happened." The kicker is, this guy is a state tournament level hs ref.