Past History with a Coach

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Back in December I had an interesting interaction with a Coach.

Early in the 4th quarter Coach B loudly complains for a traveling violation when A1 retrieved his own shot attempt that went over the basket. After getting him back in his box I quickly explain that's only a violation in the NBA to which he replied, "I coached D1, that's a universal rule." SMH

After this coach seemed to take personal issue with me. After complaining about something after I frickin put his kid on the line I was about to whack him, put the whistle in my mouth, and then decided against it as it was a 25 pt game. After taking the whistle out of my mouth I hear the coach mumble what I think was, "yeah, always stuntin." Translation- Basically implying I was trying to act tough as an official but wouldnt really T him up, or something to that effect. I could of gone ahead and whacked him then but thought, "No I'll just get him later."

A little over 2 minutes left in the game his kid makes a basket, Im C table side and coach turns to me, "If that was them you'd have put them on the line." Whack.

A few possessions later he stands for something and my partner reminds him of loss of box. At the 1:47 mark his kids is shooting FTs. I'm C opposite and notice Coach is staring directly at me. We go up and down the court a few times and I realize he is in his adjusting himself in his seat in an attempt to stare me down every where I go on the court. I consider tossing him but thought better of it. Game ends, we walk off the court and coach continues to stare at me as his team is lining up for post game handshake.

I report this to my assignor who says I'm sorry you had to go through that, I handled it correctly, and if he wants to act like a child we'll treat him like one. I said no need to apologize, not a big deal to me, just thought his behavior was inappropriate and that I should pass it along.

Last week I get a game assignment as the R for a district playoff game tomorrow night (this district starts earlier than others) and guess who the visiting and last place team is.

So the questions I have are:

When you'd had a situation like this with a coach, how would you characterize your next interaction with them? Obviously I'm going to keep it professional but how much shorter does your rope get? Anyone have an interesting stories about pre-game handshake or similar situations?