Loved the annoying coach getting shown up

[Adam]

Game before mine last night, I show up just in time to see one of the officials warning the coach that his girls were talking too much after calls. Rather than address his players, the coach just challenged the officials' version of events.

Next trip down the court, one of the two girls in question commits a foul on a three point shot and whines about it when it's called.

The shooter made three of her five free throws.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Game before mine last night, I show up just in time to see one of the officials warning the coach that his girls were talking too much after calls. Rather than address his players, the coach just challenged the officials' version of events.

Next trip down the court, one of the two girls in question commits a foul on a three point shot and whines about it when it's called.

The shooter made three of her five free throws.

Had a similar situation on Tuesday, but the outcome was the opposite. A player whining and chipping about calls (coaches are being examples of good sportsmanship). Near the end of a timeout, I inform an assistant about the player's behavior. On the next whistle after the timeout, the player is subbed out. The assistant has a word with him....he returns. I hear a bit of coaching from the bench to the kid about his attitude. Aside from seeing he came back in the game, I never noticed he was back out there. One big gold star to that coach!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Had a similar situation on Tuesday, but the outcome was the opposite. A player whining and chipping about calls (coaches are being examples of good sportsmanship). Near the end of a timeout, I inform an assistant about the player's behavior. On the next whistle after the timeout, the player is subbed out. The assistant has a word with him....he returns. I hear a bit of coaching from the bench to the kid about his attitude. Aside from seeing he came back in the game, I never noticed he was back out there. One big gold star to that coach!

Had one last weekend like this; JVB. Team from out of town (up near tref's and toren's area) just getting killed every game. A1 bringing the ball up, gets called for a travel as he picks up his dribble in pressure near the division line. He then slams the ball so that it bounces toward his basket (going up to about 10-15 feet high on the first bounce).

My partner started to get his attention (he was about to give him a T) but the coach was on the court chewing him out and a sub was at the table for him. Partner let it slide as the coach was dealing with it. A1 came up to us later during an injury stoppage and apologized, adding "I'm benched." He didn't play the rest of that game.

[ballgame99]

I need to get better at handling these coaches; had one last week in a summer shootout game that was riding me about how the other team was "reaching" (both teams were reaching and it was an ugly game). In hindsight I should have had a conversation with him at that point to cool him down, basically to say, hey both teams are reaching but reaching isn't a foul unless there is enough contact to call a foul. Instead he just got hotter and hotter, and kept commenting how we "missed that one", or "that was an easy one" if something didn't get called. You could tell this attitude was rubbing off on his players too. Just not a fun game to officiate.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by ballgame99

I need to get better at handling these coaches; had one last week in a summer shootout game that was riding me about how the other team was "reaching" (both teams were reaching and it was an ugly game). In hindsight I should have had a conversation with him at that point to cool him down, basically to say, hey both teams are reaching but reaching isn't a foul unless there is enough contact to call a foul. Instead he just got hotter and hotter, and kept commenting how we "missed that one", or "that was an easy one" if something didn't get called. You could tell this attitude was rubbing off on his players too. Just not a fun game to officiate.

I wouldn't get into it too much with him. Just tell him that's enough and go from there. He's not going to listen to a rules clinic anyway.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by ballgame99

I need to get better at handling these coaches; had one last week in a summer shootout game that was riding me about how the other team was "reaching" (both teams were reaching and it was an ugly game). In hindsight I should have had a conversation with him at that point to cool him down, basically to say, hey both teams are reaching but reaching isn't a foul unless there is enough contact to call a foul. Instead he just got hotter and hotter, and kept commenting how we "missed that one", or "that was an easy one" if something didn't get called. You could tell this attitude was rubbing off on his players too. Just not a fun game to officiate.

If you had made any comment to the coach that comment most-assuredly shouldn't have involved the word "reaching" nor should you have said both teams are doing it.

"That's enough Coach" is suffient for that scenario.

[tref]

Originally Posted by ballgame99

I need to get better at handling these coaches; had one last week in a summer shootout game that was riding me about how the other team was "reaching" (both teams were reaching and it was an ugly game). In hindsight I should have had a conversation with him at that point to cool him down, basically to say, hey both teams are reaching but reaching isn't a foul unless there is enough contact to call a foul. Instead he just got hotter and hotter, and kept commenting how we "missed that one", or "that was an easy one" if something didn't get called. You could tell this attitude was rubbing off on his players too. Just not a fun game to officiate.

I had one like this on Monday. I said, it would be impossible to steal the ball if its illegal to reach. And that was the end of his nonsense... well, until he wanted calls for "moving" screens, minus contact

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

The shooter made three of her five free throws.

To bad that she missed the other two. Are you sure that there wasn't any disconcertion from the bench?