Overkill

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by just another ref

I am one of those, who, in the last minute of a close game will check with the table and tell both coaches what they have left, whether they are out or not. I believe some here say that that is too much/not necessary/ maybe even a bad idea. (if you happen to tell them wrong information, it is worse than no information at all)

You're that guy too then. You're the guy that when dressed in a baseball/softball umpire outfit, insists on approaching a pitcher after they've warmed up and saying, "See that guy on 1st and that guy on 3rd? You have runners on first an third. There's one out. The temperature is about 82 degrees and the wind is about 8 mph out of the south-southwest."

Don't Be That Guy.

But does anybody know of anything written anywhere which says to do this at the start of the 4th quarter? And as a lesser side note, if there is such a requirement, it sounded like a duty of the R, which he was not.

No, not a rule. Definitely. But what your annoying partner did and what you said you do are only different by degrees. Both are still wrong.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by just another ref

"Get those pins out of your hair."

Well I guess at least he had one thing right but sounds like a rather unhappy experience.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by just another ref

"Get those pins out of your hair." etc.

This is a problem?

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by Adam

This is a problem?

No, this, of course is legitimate. I have no problem with the blast of the whistle as we entered the court. I have read here, have I not, that some others do that as well. But nobody does it around here except this guy. As for the pins, if I see them, I tell them to take them out, but they're not something that I squint a lot looking for.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Transfer from Texas?

Originally Posted by Loudwhistle2

I was thinking more like Nevada!

I see the similarity. We have guns too, and you will be hunted down!