Poor Performance on Technical

[DownTownTonyBrown]

Chayce, there have been some great suggestions on how to handle this situation....

Maybe I'm a little bull headed but I'm surprised that you felt there was a need for a T ...yet immediately backed off when a kid tells you "that's not what I said..."

That's almost an automatic come-back. If you make the (mistaken) effort to justify your call, the player will also make the effort to say you are wrong. Rarely does a player suck it up and say "Yep, I desesrved that."

In my experience "T's" don't come out of the blue. They are like a relief valve where the pressure has built up and built up until someone (hopefully not you or your partner) blows their cool.

Perhaps the player was aggravated with his teammates... this is a correct response for a player and no T should be assessed. If however, he was looking at your partner and screaming, your initial reaction was probably correct... T em up.

How did he question your call; was he angry or surprised?

In closure, some things done on the court are difficult to recover from. You got some great input on how to move forward... I particularly like Tony's suggestion about admit your mistake, allow the coach to chew on me for 30 (thats quite a while - I think a coach would likely run out of gas and that's a good thing too), then were gonna play on.