I left one out there

[Adam]

A lot of you talk about how officials are more apt to question the technicals they didn't call than the ones they did call. This morning, I had one of those.

Varsity boys game. Visiting assistant is chirping, not constantly, but periodically when he doesn't like the call. Standard stuff, nothing major, but something I should have addressed by about the end of the first quarter or early second quarter. Before I knew it, it was the 4th quarter and I made the decision that since I'd let it go for so long, I may as well let it go now and ignore it unless it gets worse.

Then, in the 4th quarter, visiting A1 has a breakaway layup and B1 attempts to block it, striking the backboard. Legitimate block attempt, so there was no call to make.

Next thing I know (I'm now C heading back the other way), I look up and see most of the visiting bench up signaling for timeout. I call TO, and coach tells me he didn't ask for a TO, he was telling us we missed a technical foul. After a brief disagreement on the rule, he decided to take his TO after all.

I should have T'd his assistant up for being off the bench. I should have.