No Good T Stories?

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by ballgame99

I love the T stories, or the T or not threads. Nobody has any good ones from the weekend? I was told to "call it both ways" by opposing coaches during the same game this weekend, so that was pleasant.

The infrequency of regular "T stories" seems to bespeak a measure of admirability regarding the posters on this forum, no? Says to the general public that giving T's isn't what we're all about. (Not that John Q. Public is a regular lurker or anything; just sayin'.)
On the other hand, "to T or not to T" accounts I can learn from are always good to review when they do get posted.
I saw one given last week.

[Rich]

I just don't call a lot of technicals. And those I do call are usually fairly boring stories.

[JRutledge]

I gave my first coach T this past week on an assistant. The tournament director did not like it, but I feel comfortable for giving the T. And I tried to warn or "give a hint" so that the behavior would have stopped. It is not a very good story, but like Rich says, I do not give a lot of Ts to coaches. I give more to players because they tend to not listen even when warned.

Peace

[bob jenkins]

Coach's misbehavior earned him a T.

:shrug:

That's not much of a story, but it's all the story most of them should be.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Coach's misbehavior earned him a T. That's not much of a story, but it's all the story most of them should be.

Reminds me of this: "Dog Bites Man" is not a story. "Man Bites Dog", now that's a story.

[jTheUmp]

3 Ts so far this year.

2 for adding numbers to the book in the waning moments of the game when the scrubs were being subbed in.

1 on a coach for ABS.

[zm1283]

Had one for grasping the ring during warmups. We started with a T and the coach got to sit. He also benched the offending player for most of the first half.

My only other one was a player who threw his hands up and yelled "And one" toward me as a teammate was shooting during the first quarter. I should have whacked him immediately but decided to warn him very specifically at the next whistle (Which just happened to be a hand check on him) Fast forward to about three minutes left in the game. I'm the Lead in transition and he gets the ball stolen. Instead of turning around to go play defense he throws his hand up in the air at me again and starts to say something, so I stuck him. The HC wanted to blame me and give me the old "You can't call that with three minutes left in a seven point game" routine. I had to remind him that I warned his player right in front of him and I knew he heard it.

[Terrapins Fan]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

3 Ts so far this year.

2 for adding numbers to the book in the waning moments of the game when the scrubs were being subbed in.

1 on a coach for ABS.

2 different games or the same game?

If it's the same game, is that 1 T or 2?

I thought book administrations were 1 T no matter how many infractions.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

1 on a coach for ABS.

For those of you not familiar with the term "ABS", it's a condition coaches have called "A$$ Brain Syndrome".

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I give more to players because they tend to not listen even when warned.

I give more to players because they don't get much, if any, leeway.
(Just like assistants)

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Freddy

Says to the general public that giving T's isn't what we're all about.

Whenever I meet someone for the first time, and they discover that I'm a basketball official, they always ask me about technical fouls, like it's the most important part of my job. I'm never asked about block/charges, traveling, correctable errors, etc. It's always, "So, have you given out any technicals lately?".