Referee never played the game

[Terrapins Fan]

I know there are a few referees out there that never played organized basketball.

Did you play? I did. I played 4 years of High school ball, 4 or 5 years of rec ball, owned a team, then went into coaching for 11 years.

Now here's my point. I worked with an official the other day that never played organized ball and it shows. I "T"ed up the visitor coach early in the 4th quarter. After the game, I said to my partner "he wanted that "T"" He said, "are you crazy, why would he want the "T"?" I tried to explain to him that he wanted to fire up his team, to show them that he want doing everything he could for them to win the game and they had to do their part. My partner disagreed. He said, if I were to go up and ask the coach if he had wanted the "T" or not the coach would have said, "NO"

Here's the post that refers to the "T"

http://forum.officiating.com/showpos...2&postcount=26

So, back to my point, if you didn't play the game, can you understand it the way an official who did play it understands it?