Post-season T report

[bainsey]

Before the season, most of us predicted how many technical fouls we would have this season. How'd they actually stack up with our predictions?

I'll start. I don't get many in these parts. I predicted 2-3, and wound up with two: one for an illegal number the book (#7!) and one for a second DOG warning (both plane violations).

(I'm not counting the two unsportsmanlike Ts I had today....Y-league, high school boys.)

[shavano]

I had 6... 4 for player language, and 2 to a coach for ABS.

[OrStBballRef]

I figured I'd hit my historical average of 4-7, with most being towards the end of the year.

I had only three and two of which were on a coach in a late season game. Other was on a player for conduct second week of the season.

Only a couple of players/coaches even approached the line...

[Stat-Man]

No predictions, but I think I had five, after just one last year:

1. (CYO) T for a player running into the playing action directly from the bench.
2. (CYO) Unsporting T on a head coach.
3. (JV-G) Admin T - Wrong number in both scorebooks for a player.
4. (CYO) Unsporting T for a player throwing the ball at me and hitting me in the shoulder at the end of the period.
5. (CYO) Another unsporting T on a head coach. On this particular night, my partner & I combined for 2 Techs and 4 Intentional fouls in 3 games together.

[Welpe]

I nailed my predicted zero Ts issued out of zero games worked.

I learned this year that you only remember the techs you didn't call. Here are mine:

Should have tossed a coach who showed me up (twice!) after my partner whacked him.
Should have whacked a coach after he made statements like "I can tell where we're at tonight!" and "We're getting screwed!"
Should have whacked bench players for standing up during play after three warnings.
Should have whacked a different coach who also said "I can tell where we're at!"

[grunewar]

Five for me. I was cruising along pretty good and then had a patch of three in three games.

Three ABS, one coach lost his mind, and one player took out his frustrations on the ball.....

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Welpe

I nailed my predicted zero Ts issued out of zero games worked.

Me too, almost.

Zero Ts, 5 games.

[LRZ]

Originally Posted by Stat-Man

No predictions, but I think I had five, after just one last year:

1. (CYO) Unsporting T for a player throwing the ball at me and hitting me in the shoulder at the end of the period.
   

What? Intentionally throwing the ball AT (not TO) you? WOW, Stat-Man!

[BillyMac]

I know that I didn't have any against coaches (as Frank Sinatra said, "It was a very good year"). I may have had one for delay of game (defender crosses boundary after a warning) but I really can't remember.

One of my partners called one in a girls varsity game. A player called him a "fu*king ass*ole". You should have seen the look on my partner's face.

I almost called one against a girl in a varsity scrimmage. She "boxed out" a three point shooter into the bleachers, and strongly disagreed with my foul call on her. Her tone, her facial expression, and her body language, almost got her a cup of tea in a scrimmage. Later in the scrimmage my partner had to speak to her after another complaint, at which point her coach took her out of the game and sat her on the end of the bench with the junior varsity players. In a scrimmage, that's better than a technical.

Whatever happened to sugar and spice and everything nice?

[BillyMac]

In how many of these situations did the nine nonshooters go behind the division line?

Originally Posted by LRZ

What? Intentionally throwing the ball AT (not TO) you? WOW, Stat-Man!

I had that this season. 2nd tech on the kid. Unfortunately I forgot he had one so I didn't get to do the fun ejection signal

Originally Posted by BillyMac

One of my partners called one in a girls varsity game. A player called him a "fu*king ass*ole". You should have seen the look on my partner's face.

Please tell me he called a flagrant technical.

[Terrapins Fan]

I did not keep track of mine, but I was at about 7.

In church league, I whacked a coach, 2 kids. In HS, I whacked a coach who wanted to be "T"ed, An assistant & I whacked a kid for cussing. I also got a MS Assistant coach.

I have learned the art of patience....I hope. In past years I have been around 20.

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by LRZ

What? Intentionally throwing the ball AT (not TO) you? WOW, Stat-Man!

A few seconds before this, he was frustrated over a no-call, and had I not said something, he was set to slam the ball in disgust.

When he threw the ball at me after the period ended, I could only think that if this was his way of thanking me for being preventative, he could have the T-party I prevented the moment before. Of course, his coach tried telling my partner how the kid was the most docile player on the team. But both my partner and assignor had no problem with the call. (This particular assignor wants reports on all unsporting technical fouls.)

Originally Posted by AremRed

I learned this year that you only remember the techs you didn't call.

I had this in a MS Girls game in the fall. I let an AC say way too much (yeah, I know) during the game and it left a bad taste in my mouth. And my partner's halftime advice to ignore the AC -- while a short-term solution -- did little to address the main problem. On the way back home, I told myself I would not let this happen again and made sure to write about it in my journal.

Originally Posted by Stat-Man

On the way back home, I told myself I would not let this happen again and made sure to write about it in my journal.

Is this a regular journal or an officiating journal?