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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
If I yell "That's terrible, what are you thinking" at one of my players, is that unsportsmanlike? (I don't do this, but lots of coahces do and it isn't ever a T) If I yell it at you, does it change your opinion?
Same with anything else on the bench. I am not saying a coach needs to collapse (or that I have done or will do so), but it seems a leap to me to have an unsporting T unless something else occurs that renders this a comentary on your officiating rather than frustration with the team's play. The mere act of collapsing to the floor does not a T make in my book.
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He didn't merely fall to the floor. If he had, I would probably have just called the paramedics.
People don't fall to the floor for no reason. He either tripped, was ill, or was reacting to either his team's play or the call. I can assure you that he was reacting to the call. He did not like the call, reacted to it and then fell to the floor. It was an obvious attempt to display his displeasure and to show up my partner. Tweet.
But while we're discuissing ESP, how about when a kid slams the ball to the floor or pounds his fist on the floor after a call? Am I suppose to be a mindreader? Am I supposed to try to figure out if he's upset with the call or upset with himself?
I don't think so.
Thanks for the rule reference, JR.