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Situation: 8th grade girls, close game, but white led the whole time (and won, by the way). Blue was coming back in the last 5 min of the game, and got as close as two, I think, so of course the tension was glutinous. White was unhappy that we had called a lot more fouls on them, but that's the way they were playing. Both my partner and me were calling it pretty tight, and neither of us had any questions about how the other was working. I missed a couple, he missed a couple, but we were getting it pretty right. With about 3 minutes to go, white is inbounding under blue's basket, blue is pressing. White dribbles to one side heading to get past a screen, slides a little and falls. I wasn't watching closely, but my partner was right there and had a great angle. White lost the ball, the screener fell over the ex-dribbler, blue grabs the ball and heads up court. Another white player comes down and nails blue dribbler - tweet - double bonus, two shots for blue. White coach is literally incoherent with rage, but I walk over, and briefly talk him down, let the assistant coach take over, and feel very proud of myself for not T'ing. Site supervisor reams me after the game for not tossing white coach. Blue parents thought I was playing favorites, I guess.
Okay, if I ask you folks whether I was right or not, you'll say you had to see it yourself, and so on. So I'm not asking. But for my edification and future professionalism, what tells you it's time for a T, and what do you handle in other ways? i like the philosophy of giving T's when they make a better game, but how do I know when that is?
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Sun Nov 25, 2001, 01:45am
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