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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
The point of this whole situation is that you don't know why he did it. And you won't know, not without something else occurring. So your response to potentially WHACK him can only be based on your mental interpretation of what he did. If you have to interpret, you don't want to T, especially in a game like this. Best to hold it til he does something to really earn it.
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Hawks Coach -- I don't disagree with you very often, but here, I do. I think the only thing the ref CAN do is interpret. It's'a little risky, because as you say, the emotions are running a little high. But I think the ref should be allowed to judge what the coach's intent is. If it were me, I might be tempted to stop the game, and call an ambulance, just for effect. Tempted, I said. He'd get the medical attention he needed, or he'd never pull the stunt again. But if it is just an attention-getting over-dramatization, it's definitely a T.