First T, and it was on an official!!

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I am a second year official, and up to this point I have not dinged up any coaches to this point. After having a really good JV game the night before, I come into my games this afternoon feeling pretty good.

During my first game, which was 6th grade girls, it was going all right until the 4th quarter, when both teams started full court pressing (yikes). As you can imagine, a lot of reaching, bumbling, stumbling. We called a few things, but most my partner and I let go.

Anyway, with about three minutes left down 2, one of team's inbounds the ball with a lob to their tallest player, she brings the ball down than shoots. I saw ball, coach saw hack. After a dead ball, he is irate; I go to calm him down, and he proceeds with a "You need to learn to officiate," but for some reason I let him go. While I am walking away, he says to me that I should be embarrassed, and that's when I ring him.

I would think that since he was an official he wouldn't have acted like that, but I guess I was wrong. How did I know he was an official?? Well, he started the game with a pullover that our association sells, and then when he took that off, he had an IAABO shirt on underneath. I guess he wanted my partner and I to realize that we had another official present.

Sorry for the long posting, just doing a little venting!!