My first (high school) ejection

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by OHBBREF

I also admire your restraint in not giving you partner a foot in the backside during the game?

Well, I had a whole speech planned and some theatrics (throwing my jacket, etc)

But the first thing he said when he got back to the changing room* was "Oh, I was getting ready to give him that second T, but you beat me to it."

I just rolled my eyes, gave him a similar lecture about getting the job done because someone's gotta do it, and left it at that.


*So after the game, the moment the buzzer sounds, of course I'm booking it back to the locker room. I turn around as I'm almost completely off the court into the hallway and my partner is nowhere to be found!! Then I see him at the scorer’s table talking to the AD!!!

So, I run back to the locker room alone (where the head coach is waiting outside the door to berate my, by the way). I ignore him and go into the locker room and immediately the varsity refs say “Where the heck is your partner?”

I just shrug my shoulders and say “I guess he decided to have a conversation with the AD on the floor after the game.”

They couldn’t believe it either. They gave him a decent tongue lashing after the game for that.

Originally Posted by fiasco

So after the game, the moment the buzzer sounds, of course I'm booking it back to the locker room...

So, I run back to the locker room alone (where the head coach is waiting outside the door to berate my, by the way).

I just shrug my shoulders and say “I guess he decided to have a conversation with the AD on the floor after the game.”

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Was it a close ending? I just ask because you said you book/ran off the court.

I would help my partner off the court (especially if I'm the R) because if he has to T someone after the game then you might have to clock back in... wait a minute, he proved that he's not gonna T anybody

[JugglingReferee]

Good T. The "something against me" is borderline personal, if not over. I would just chalk it up to incorrect judgment, as most coaches do when they want a foul. Good one to not react to.

And I agree with you about the hesitation to believe that your P would have backed you up.

Good job.

[deecee]

I agree with the "something against me" comment. I would have responded to him along the lines of, "Coach I am going to let that one go so that hopefully we can work together the rest of the game. I will not be this nice, or courteous if I have to have this conversation with you again." and I would walk away. If he doesn't explicitly get what will happen next then oh well, not my problem.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by fiasco

Whack!

Then I had to wait about a minute for him to take his sweet time getting off the court as he stared me down the whole way.

My partner said after the game he had my back and was all ready to T him up but that I just blew my whistle first.

Right.

A good partner, even if you got to it first, would have still blown their whistle if only to emphasize the call and its correctness.