Timeout to Vent

[Rich]

Originally Posted by jeffpea

So a timeout is little longer than it should be....so what. Coaches get mad at officials for a whole lot of different reasons - most of which we cannot control - during a game. This is a situation that is so easy to avoid.

BTW, having been thru the exact scenario I described in my previous post, I think it's best to ask which T.O. they want and if they don't let me know, I just wait to see whether they're sitting or standing and I've got my answer. When it happens to you, it will be interesting to see what the answer to the "what would you have done differently?" question you should ask after every game that includes a Technical.

If I am directly asking the head coach and he doesn't respond after I ask twice, he's ignoring me.

Sometimes a technical foul happens and I'm not going to spend waking moments wondering how to avoid all of them.

"Full or thirty, John? Full or thirty, John? It's a full. Full time out."