How many technicals have you called this year?

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser

Too much Kool-Aid being passed around in this thread, IMO. T's are NOT, NOT, NOT like any other call, regardless of how many clinicians say so. Usually there's emotions running high on the coach's part and many times on the official's part (unless the official is a robot). How emotional is an out of bounds or traveling call?

I remember how many technicals I call, but usually forget by the next season. They are rare enough in my world that each one takes up a portion of my memory. I remember them not because I want to relive the glory of putting my hands together and awarding free throws, but because I want to remember how I handled situations.

2 Ts this season. One was a cumulative thing where the coach was talked to by all three of us during the first half. We talked about it at halftime and after the first foul in the second half, the coach called one of my partner's "ridiculous" while I was C in front of him. The other was a gesture made to my partner's back while I was coming up on the bench as the T tableside.

Remembering these doesn't mean I'm a gunslinger. It means I looked back to determine if the Ts were justified. They were. Both coaches, in retrospect, probably wanted one.

I agree. Even if a T is given in a cold manner (which is how I handle them) they are still unusual because there's a chance you'll be talking to your boss after the game about it, especially if you bang a coach. Or at least the R who'll want to know what happened for when he talks to the assignor. (This assumes your assignor actually gives a sh1t, some just don't.) Sometimes T's come in streaks, I know if I get a string of games where I'm T'ing people up I think about why and if I could have handled anything differently. In this respect T's are different from other calls as well, at least for me.

But on the other hand if you do give a T it should be considered as just another call, at least to the person getting it.

So I guess my point is I agree T's are a different type of call but they are not a big deal in the sense that once you find yourself at the point where it's gonna help the game you just take care of business.

If any of that makes sense...

[Edited by Dan_ref on Mar 1st, 2006 at 12:42 PM]