More on "T"s

[ronald]

For my 2 cents worth, I detest unsporting behaviour and do not hesitate to assess T's when coaches exibit such behaviour. I am not against giving some warnings where appropriate but high school, ms, and rec coaches are not going to act like NCAA coaches (who have temper tantrems) when I ref a game and not receive the appropriate penalty. The minute Davis walked out on the court and approached that ref, he would have got it from me. He did not have one second coming. The ref gave a pretty T but should have been done faster. I believe it is called game management and one tool is the T used appropriately.

Anyways, Sat, doing a girs rec and I call traveling on a girl under the basket. One of the coaches, ex NCAA player stands up and hollowers for everyone in the gym and next door: "That's a horrible call". She got a T. No brainer. You can't ignore behaviour like that otherwise you just invite more disrespect and overbearing outbursts. (I actually enjoyed giving that T inside). Told em they had the seat belt the rest of the game. Partner tells me she was shocked and then they laughed about it.