My First Technical

This is not the ref. This guy is pro!

We go to Ringwood for a game. Ringwood has a rep for homer refs.

I guess when the refs blew the first possession call and SoulSlam made them aware they messed up was where it all got started. Then when they blew another possession call (it's pretty easy, team 1, team 2, team 1, team 2) they looked at me funny.

It seemed that a ref (with 80's hair) was trying to get my best player out of the game, with two sketchy fouls, including a charge that wasn't. Then he calls the kid for a travel on a made layup. I don't argue a travel, he probably took 3 steps. But a couple of minutes later one of their players took 5 (if I drew a diagram from where he started and where he finished Lebron James would take 3.5) steps with the ball on his hip and didn't get called I kind of started in...at that point my Asst. Coach asked the ref if he "lived down the street". We get warned.

So game resumes...with about 2 minutes to go we are up 31-28. They inbound, I press with one guard. The kid dribbles with 2 hands for 3 steps and no call!!!! The opposing coach called a T/O...I look at ref and motion with two hands and say he can't do that!

T!!!!

So they get two free throws... ref lines the kid on wrong basket. We say "wrong basket" I think he wanted to call another T. He gets red-faced. Kid makes second shot after air-balling first. Now they get the ball back...but wait, the refs aren't sure where they get ball. I say down under basket in corner. What are they going to do...I'm trying to be helpful.

Ringwood inbounds ball and we immediately get our hands on it too and force a possession....ref #2 looks longingly at 80's ref....wait, wait, wait.... BLUE ball (me). They wanted to give that ball so bad to Ringwood, you should have seen their faces. Priceless. We scored 2 more times to win 35-29.

Terrible refs, not carded (you can tell by patches on striped shirt)...I am having my league rep blacklist these guys.