coach beckoned

[Adam]

Originally Posted by mick

If the coach is beckoned and doesn't come onto the floor, I am going to play it by ear:

• because the coach knows his play better than I;
• because the coach may not have seen me beckon;
• because I may remove the player, regardless, based on a gut feeling.

Agreed. But at this point I'll take the player's word for it over the coaches because the player knows himself even better than the coach, at that moment.

This is why if it looks marginal, I ask the player. 81.7% of the time, they want to keep playing so I'll give the coach the stop sign (they're usually looking at me waiting for a signal) and we put the ball in play.

Let me put it this way. If I ask the player, he says he can't play, I beckon the coach, and the coach tries to refuse to come out and replace his player; too bad. The kid's coming out for a tick, or the coach is going to burn a TO.