My first varsity game, and a T-foul question

[TussAgee11]

I was the head manager on my high school basketball team, our PG had a fast break and got absolutly hammered from behind by their big man on the way up. Ref calls a foul, it was a hard foul nothign intentional. Well the defender stands over our player and does the throat slash thing. Our bench was on that side of the court. Well our coach goes nuts, the lead had begun to loop around and saw it. He had dropped his whistle, and I saw him see the throat slashing and blow, but there was no whistle there! He looked like a lost child trying to get that thing back into his mouth.

Our coach quickly apologized for yelling so loudly right away about it, because it sounded like nothing was going to be called, but the ref got it right.

Its happened to me officiating games where I try to whistle a time out or something and the whistle isn't there. Whoops!