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Originally Posted by Raymond
He admits in the article he wanted the first technical foul.
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We see this here on the high school level, and even on the middle school level (I was a middle school coach for 25 years).
Sometimes a coach just wants to show his players, parents, and fans that he's paying attention, knows the rules, cares about the game, and supports his players when it's obvious that officials just screwed up in a manner that negatively effected his players (bad foul call, or bad foul no call, etc.), and/or team (not necessarily cheating, I have not known officials to cheat, exception Tim Donaghy).
And sometimes a coach just wants to "fire up" his players, and/or fans (who, in turn, fire up the players).
This was lot more common when NFHS technical foul penalties were less severe, only one free throw (did I dream that), and when there was no coaching box (seatbelt all the time, with some exceptions by rule) to be taken away.