I had a game this past week with a coach that is notorious, in a good way, for riding the officials during his games. He is the master mindgame guy, and is quite capable of manipulating a lot of insecure or inexperienced officials. He is also a heck of a coach and motivator of his kids. I will also say that in officiating probably a half dozen of their games over the years, I have never gotten so much as a comment from a player from East Valley High School. As classy a program as you can find.
We went the entire game, and not one comment was made to any of the three officials regarding a call. We had one request to monitor and manage leaving the ball alone after a made basket to prevent delay in retrieving and inbounding, but other than that not one critical question, comment or request from either coach.
Never happened to me before. Will probably never happen again. Made the night a lot of fun though. It does happen, folks. When you get teams that play basketball using good fundamentals and the correct attitude, and your crew is competent in your calls and in communicating with everyone, things can go very, very smoothly.
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