Travel Game Follie

[DLH17]

That was a fun read. Thanks for posting.

Question about the TF (for anyone). In the past, when assessing TF on head coaches, my rationale when asked is "unsportsmanship" or "unsportsmanlike behavior". Would this be better, worse or just as acceptable as the reason used in the OP?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by DLH17

That was a fun read. Thanks for posting.

Question about the TF (for anyone). In the past, when assessing TF on head coaches, my rationale when asked is "unsportsmanship" or "unsportsmanlike behavior". Would this be better, worse or just as acceptable as the reason used in the OP?

The fact that you will even answer the question makes you a better person that I.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

The fact that you will even answer the question makes you a better person that I.

Agreed. I wouldn't answer that one; he knows exactly why he got rung.

If anything, "Because you'd been asking for one all game and I finally decided to oblige."

[DLH17]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Agreed. I wouldn't answer that one; he knows exactly why he got rung.

If anything, "Because you'd been asking for one all game and I finally decided to oblige."

Interesting.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by DLH17

Interesting.

Let me add, I wouldn't use this in a high school game; then again, the coach would have been taken care of sooner.

If I was working an AAU type game, though, and for whatever reason had allowed the game to progress as this one did without addressing the coach, it's possible that would be the response to come out of my mouth if he asked me such a stupid question.

[26 Year Gap]

He should have been listening to the rest of the game on the radio in his car. Oh, it wasn't being broadcast? Too bad.

[NCMTNRef]

Thanks for the replies. If this was a normal high school varsity game we would not have gone nearly as far as we did on this occasion. I actually have a reputation as being a guy with a quick trigger but in the championship game of a travel tournament, i try to avoid controversy as much as possible because there is nothing that can happen to these guys other than being removed from the gym. No suspension or nothing.

His questioning of my integrity plus the name calling probably should have been enough to warrent ejection before he met me at half court. However after he met me there, I basically knew that I had given him way too much leeway and he needed to be taken care of.

[DLH17]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Let me add, I wouldn't use this in a high school game; then again, the coach would have been taken care of sooner.

If I was working an AAU type game, though, and for whatever reason had allowed the game to progress as this one did without addressing the coach, it's possible that would be the response to come out of my mouth if he asked me such a stupid question.

Ok....that makes more sense. I figured this is what you meant.

[NCMTNRef]

Thanks again for the replies guys. I have been looking for input like this and unlike alot of guys I find in our field that get touchy if you make the smallest comment about how they can improve, I actually respect the heck out of you guys for saying it. I can take it and it makes me better. Most of the stuff is information that I already knew. Such as take care of it early, go ahead and run the guy. I am not going to rip my partner in this game but one peice of background that I should have thrown in is that my partner has been calling for 5 or 6 years and is much older than I am. I am in my early 20's and have only been calling for a year and a half. I don't know if that changes how I should handle everything...It shouldn't. I issued all of the T's during the game.