Summer Basketball, gotta love it!

[Y2Koach]

So to give back to an organization that has helped me tremendously in the past, I volunteered my weekend to work the scoreboard and do scorekeeping at a tournament over the weekend. I'm working a game between 2 teams I have no affiliation with and this situation happens.

working the 3rd of 3 games that day, one of the officials (who also does local high school games) lets some contact go in the third quarter of a 20+ pt game with team A winning. A1, who was on the receiving end of a few of the no-calls, is subbed out after coach sees him starting to lose his cool over the no-calls. In a subsequent play, A5 is pushed from behind on a rebound and the official blows his whistle late, and calls a travel on B5 after he gets the rebound over A5 who is on the ground. A1 says something about "how is that not a foul, don't let them push us just cuz we're up by 20" and the official says to A1 "hey, you play the game, I'll ref the game!" A1 replies "ref the game then and call the foul!" The official responds "You want to switch?!? How about you ref the game and I play! How about that!" while holding out his whistle towards A1, to which the kid responds "okay, I'd do a better job than you" and starts to take his jersey off.

*tweet* - technical foul

It was weird to see this official get so riled up to the point he was baiting the kid, since he usually is a cool customer during the high school season... the solstice must be near... It would've been funny if they actually switched roles, not sure how the ref would've handled the full court press, and I definitely wouldve gave the kid crap for not using the proper mechanics when reporting fouls...