
Dumb Things refs say
There is no personal attacks on here! just people describing some situations which happened in basketball games. and there are no names used anyway. Get off your pedistool

Coaching a girls game, the bench were a little slack in putting on the light after the fourth team foul. We were playing S (a high fouling team) who had reached their full count per qtr.
We were leading the game and our girls got to 4 fouls in the 4th and, S were on 3 after a couple of girls went for early showers. The becnch put the light on S, not us as they were acustomed to doing so. S fouled us for their 4th, but the ref gave us 2 FT.
I stood up to tell the ref it should be a sideball, but the greenshirt told me to sit down and not interfere with the bench or I would be T'd. We bagged the 2 FT and went on to win by 11.
One of the S parents said we had to take 2 points off our score and then ADD 2 points to theirs.
The greenshirts agreed, but then I convinced them that you should just take off those 2 points, not add an additional 2 points....We won by 9

I wore #10 for most of my playing days and once a ref called me for a foul and said "zero, one" instead of "one, zero" LOL

Bring it, that towel story....made up, maybe? How long does it take for a towel to land? Enough time for the ref to make a comment, and even more time for the towel thrower to position himself under it to blow it up back up in the air?

I once got Ejected because someone through the ball at me, ump thought that I must have provoked him. Which I did but he didn't see. I just mentioned to him something about him having a weight problem

I was sent to the tribunal once for supposedly pushing a ref. Our game was called off, I was walking to the scorers bench, and he stepped in front of me. I had no choice but to put an arm out, or I would have made the contact worse. He said nothing, but the controller saw from a distance and came over and told him to report me.
During the hearing, his evidence was that he felt pain when I pushed him and he had no doubt I did it to hurt him. My response was "if you have no doubt that it was done to hurt you intentionally, why didn't you report me immediately." I got off.

My team mate got an USF for farting... yep, got told that he deliberatley farted under the basket so the other team couldn't stand there.LOL
I then asked my team mate after the game if that was his intention and he said yes... so maybe the ref was right??? :-)

I owned up once and said "na, it came off me" or something, only to have the ref say that he is in charge so his (incorrect) decision is right.

I got pinged for an USF last year for accidentally running in to a guy while I was looking at the ref. I was defending a guy in the backcourt, stopped him from getting the ball over for at least 15 seconds, so when I looked the ref to yell at him to call the violation, I ran in to the guy. He was obviously angry with me so he decided that I hit the guy intentionally.
He apologised to me the next week.

I had a ref disappear during a timeout. we had to go to the front desk to find her - she had gone to the toilet. She came back, no apology, no explanation, just acted as if we should be prepared to wait.


I had a ref call a tech on me. He called a blocking foul on me when I was defending, I jumped back to get behind the screener, and he must have thought there was some sort of contact. I replied mate I was a foot away from him. TECH!
Then replied to me See you dont have to sware to get a Tech, I was like, HUH!..... Its hot and I am not in the mood was his excuse
Gotta love em

I had a tech called on me by the baseline ref, while I was running back up the court and crossing the halfway line. He heard someone swear, somehwere in the stadium, and assumed it was me, so he pinged me. I continually asked him what I said, he couldn't answer, I gave him a spray so he started crying.
