Should I Have Run Him?

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by YooperRef

Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm still kicking the situation around in my head.

I started the play on the opposite side of the lane from V's bench. The inbounder ran towards the bench when she committed the violation and I took a 3 or 4 steps in her direction when I made the call. I was about in the middle of the lane, maybe 25 ft away from the end of the V's bench.

In that case, EASILY a flagrant T. No way a coach gets 25 ft onto the court and touches me, in ANY way. See ya!

And again, absolutely NO Way you should have given the coach ANY explanation at all when he is this clearly out of line.

Like I said before, I know it's much easier in hindsight but you, and any official, really cant tolerate this kind of behavior. I'm not sure how experienced you are, but I know it took me a while to truly feel comfortble with issuing Ts and knowing how to respond to coaches who pull BS like this. You did stick him but I think a flagrant T is what was needed here. But we live and learn. Thanks for sharing this.