Dealing with coaches...

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Summer girls tournament. I like doing girls games because anything can happen. It tests rule knowledge and situational awareness. Spencer has shown up and volunteered to do three man. A5 gets trabbed on the baseline opposite of Lead and Lead doesnt come over. B4 and B5 trap her on the baseline and she has no where to go. To get an angle she starts to fall toward the baseline that she is already on. She tries to pass the ball and the defenders just let her try since she has no angle and she throws it away. A5 coach starts chirping "She wouldnt throw that away, he must have missed it". Another transition call he thinks a girl travels and I see nothing I would call a travel. "Thats a travel". Coach what did you see. "A travel". He is running a full court press and man to man. His varsity girls are aggressive, especially with hands and the foul count is showing it with a 8-2 against him. I say something to the affect the full court and man to man is going to see more fouls called on your team.

I dont get chirped at much any more. I work hard and call a good game and seldom get chirping. Especially from good coaches. To me this guy wants his girls to get away with more aggressive defense and I the crew is penalizing it properly. And I am ass/u/ming he is trying to get me to go easy on his girls to give him advantage.

How do I respond to make sure I dont assume and let myself get agitated by this behavior. Do I simply need a thick skin and ignore the little japs knowing we are doing a good job and just tell him we will watch for it and move on. This feels like my 2nd biggest wall and because it doesnt come up often I have been ignoring it. Yet I want a well rounded game and seek advice when on of THESE coaches show up on the side line. My gut says to tell him we will watch and discuss it as we can and internally just ignore what I think is a manipulation of the referees.

Thanks in advance,