YHO - Technical Foul?

[Scrapper1]

Personally, if I look for help, I don't want to get a thumbs-up. If you don't know, that's all I need. Then I can either go with the thumbs-up myself or go with the look that I had, even if it wasn't 100%.

[Amesman]

Regardless whether the officials hiccuped on this one a bit (in perception or reality), A#20 would have been looking at my T signal before he twirled his "crazy" fingers a second rotation. And he might have gotten one for each rotation. (Though I would have stopped before it rose to 16 FTs )

[bob jenkins]

If I go for help, I use what the T (or C) has. I don't want a "guess". If they don't have anything, go to the arrow.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

If I go for help, I use what the T (or C) has. I don't want a "guess". If they don't have anything, go to the arrow.

I'm not talking about flipping a coin, here, Bob. We both know that if the T/C has a look then there is a considerably greater than 50% (but perhaps less than 100%) chance the T/C has it right. I may not come in if you had called it the other way, for example, but I'd be more than happy to give input.

I have at least one or two balls a week where a couple of hands are all around the ball and I use my experience along with what I saw to rule on the ball. I can't be the only one.

EDITED to add: My opinion may be colored by working about half of my games 2-person. Sometimes, you just know your partner has no shot of helping out, so why subject the partner and the crew to catcalls of "aren't either of you watching the game?" Even when I have to "guess," I can't remember once where there was a look of surprise or disapproval over the call by the players involved. So either I do a darned good job or they don't know, either.