When it's 66-27....

[Rich]

Originally Posted by mj

Look on the bright side. At least it appears one team had some skills. It's when neither team isn't that I struggle...

Tonight I had a 10 point game.

We had one of those moments in the fourth quarter, though. Ball shoots out on my sideline about midcourt (I'm the lead with players down low, so I'm on the baseline). I call it immediately. BTW, I got it right. The player himself told me he knocked it out later.

Losing coach starts in about how neither of us are in position to make that call and on top of that he had just been on my partner over a call he made (that I didn't see the play for since I was officiating off ball) on a shooting foul. I held up my partner from inbounding at half court, walked all the way down to his bench, and as non-aggressively as possible stood next to the coach and told him that the next time he did that (call across the court like that) he would be getting a technical foul.

His response? "It may happen."

My response? "Fine, if you want one, I'll give it to you, cause if it does happen again, you can be sure there will be a technical foul." Said slowly, with eye contact, knowing that I may have to live up to this.

I didn't like his response, but I wasn't going to bait him or make it look like I was the aggressor right at that moment. Guess what? He shut his trap

No kidding, no one is in position to see that. Hire three freaking officials instead of whining about it.