Too quick?

[Scrapper1]

BillyMac's thread on technical fouls reminded me of a situation in one of my recent games. 3-whistle game. I'm Trail. Adult on the Team B's bench (not really a coach, as far as I can tell) starts chirping about 3-seconds and repeats it several times during the possession. Eventually, my parter at L has a foul on the B1. The adult now addresses my partner directly, saying he should've had the 3-seconds first, blah blah blah.

My partner addresses the head coach directly and says, "Take care of him or I will." The stupid adult then has to get one more word in and says, of course, "Well, then just call the 3-seconds". At which point my partner T'd him up.

During the free throws for the technical, I'm still T and right in front of the head coach. He says very respectfully, "I know he was talking, but you're partner told me to handle it, and then he didn't give me the chance to do it."

I said, "Coach, your guy didn't give you the chance to do it."

But in all honesty, I think the coach had a really good point. If you tell the coach to help you out, it seems reasonable to expect that you give him/her a chance to do it.

In this particular case, do you think the T was too quick, given what my partner said to the head coach. In general, do you like that approach (take care of it, or I will)?

Just looking for thoughts.