Question about a T on a coach

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by JS 20

only thing i would have done different would be to get together w/ my partner at half court after you issued the first T. At that point, your partner should have gone over to tell him he lost the coaching box and you should have been administering the FT's. That would have prevented you from giving both T's and plus i'm pretty sure it's how the manual says you should do it.

If the coach is still going off, I don't think there is anything to be gained by having the other official go address him. If I T a coach, I don't want or need my partner going over to him, lending him an ear, or trying to calm him down. In doing so the second official usually has to either listen to the coach berate his partner or may inadvertently escalate the situation. And at the end of the day, what is the second official actually hoping to accomplish? To calm the coach down? Make everything okay? It's not going to happen.

Better, IMHO, to leave the coach to his own devices at that moment. He knows he's lost his box. If he's still standing a couple plays later, then your partner can ask him to sit as he passes by during play.

As always, just my $0.02.