OT - Funny stuff

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Here's one from about 10 years ago. Called a kid for carrying the ball on his first three possessions. They weren't even close calls, because his violations were really blatant. Coach requests and is granted a timeout after the third call. He comes over to me and says, "That's just the way he dribbles. If you're going to call that, he'll get called for it every time he has the ball!"

My reply was "Then I guess that's what's going to happen coach. Maybe you should do something about it." The coach just looked at me and shrugged.

The kid got the ball about 10 more times during the game, dribbled about six of those times and got called for a carry all six. Every time my partner or I made the call, the coach just shook his head.

I always wondered what happened in all the games that kid played in before this one.

Surprised the opposing coach didn't instruct his team to give it to that kid so they could set up out of bounds plays under their basket.