[Adam]

Good example, Jeff. But yet, when a coach has his player "guard" the official, that goes above and beyond the tolerance level of most officials.

For the most part, I'm in the "don't go looking for stuff" camp. But if you've got a player literally nose to nose with another player when it's obvious to everyone in the gym that the intent is not to play basketball defense as much as to play psychological offense, I don't think we can ignore it.

I'm all for starting with an admonition/warning. Tell them to stop, because it's intimidating and it's not basketball.

Now, if he's just following him around, not getting nose-to-nose, I doubt I'd do anything. Maybe it's the nose-to-nose stare down aspect of it that's getting me. That's the part that strikes me as patently unsporting. Nose to nose when play is neither in progress nor imminent.