T Worth, Part II or Deja Vu All Over Again.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I had a similar situation tonight.

Two-man officiating crew. Team H is up by four late in the second quarter. I am L, table side. V1 attempts field two-point field goal attempt from the weak side; the attempt is successful. H1 and V2 are in front of me and during the V1's attempt, H1 pushes V2 out of the way to get a better position for a possible rebound. I call the foul on H1. H1 is not happy and neither is H-HC. H1's foul puts Team V into the double bonus. I report H1's foul and now the fun begins.

Just as I finish reporting the foul, H1 walks by me and tells me in a voice loud enough for the players standing near me, that I had made a "horrible call." WHACK No. 1; I calming tell H1 that is conduct is an unsportsmanlike TF. I then turn to H-HC, who is standing in Team H's coaching box about fifteen feet away from me, and inform him that H1 has received an unsportsmanlike TF and why he had received it. At that point H-HC tells me in a lvoice loud enough for everybody on Team H's bench and the players on the court in front of the bench: "Because it was a horrible call." WHACK No. 2. I calmly tell him that he has received an unsportsmanlike TF and that he as lost the coaching box for the rest of the game. He never complained the rest of the game and never lifted his tuchus off the bench unless the rules allowed it. SUPRISE! SUPRISE!

Team V makes all six free throws to go from four to four up (thanks to the successful FG attempt by V1 to start the play. The second quarter ends with Team V up by four. Team V loses the game by twenty. LOL

MTD, Sr.