Grasping The Ring

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
Dan,what would you do in the head coach and 3T sitch?That is a good question.I can certainly see why Chuck could get ticked off so badly.You pretty well KNOW you are being conned.

It is a good question, so good I was trying to ignore it...

I had something like this happen to me this summer at an
AAU tourney. Guy I knew to be the assistant starts off in
the first minute loudly complaining about stupid stuff. I
T him, tell the table it's 1 + indirect on the head coach.
Head coach gets up, says I'm not the HC, I'm the assistant.
Great, all I know is I have 1 hr and 10 minutes to get the
next game started, including 5 minutes for me to have a
break. So I tell them both the next T on the bench is
flagrant, you guys decide. But that was AAU where you
gotta carry a big stick. In a "real" game I'm not sure
how I would handle it, while I'm tempted by Chuck's
"who-you-foolin'" response I suspect I would do it your
way. I think I would also tell them both I know what just
happened and he had better be on his best behavior.