Unsporting Foul

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by TheOracle

KB, how about a quick whistle, stop the inbounds play, say "Hey, get your hands away from his face!", and start again. I bet that would solve the problem for the game and be a very easy, non-controversial fix.

Absolutely could have done that, I actually questioned myself on that when I I posted this last week. In that situation, the game was getting extremely heated and they had been double and triple teaming this kid all over the floor (he was by far their best player). On top of that the coach for the defensive team was screaming "GET IN HIS FACE"....now I will grant you that as we have seen in numerous posts/threads today and yesterday, none of what they had been doing to this point was a foul, but in my judgement when I added all of that up, considered the direction the game was going, and in an attempt to get things under control, once they did something that WAS a tech (and blatant), I went right with it rather than the warning...this was the first time in 18 or so years that I have ever called one, only SEEN it called one other time...the call itself turned out to be very non-controversial, the coach asked what his kid did, I went over and explained it and that was that, no further questions..