Atta boy!

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Had a soph tourney yesterday and my partner who I drove with to our games is strictly a freshman/ Soph ref, and I do Varsity with a few holiday soph games so he values my opinion. We were talking about bench decorum and it seemed he let coaches get away with murder both head AND assistants. I quoted the line from someone here recently about assistant coaches getting out of line "I'll listen to the organ grinder but not the monkey" which he loved.

Second game, very spirited with chatter coming from both coaches. Partner calls a foul with no signal if we are shooting or ball underneath.

Before he reports, he comes to me and for some reason asks was he shooting or on the floor? I said, your call, be firm.

I go to endline to inbound and tweet, I look at partner who calmly T's up assistant who said "you don't need to ask his advice, make your own call"

Atta boy!! Bought him ice cream for ride home.