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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
But he is absolutely competing with his peer on the other bench.
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That has nothing to do with this scenario.
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if a player is standing right in front of your bench and giving crap to one of your own players, it would be very easy to say something to that player.
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And absolutely inappropriate (we agree on this, I know), regardless of what was being said by the player. The only thing the coach should do in this instance is attempt to draw the officials' attention to the problem.
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I see no reason to consider it more grievous than a player taunting a player or a coach taunting a coach. It's taunting. Deal with it for what it is, by the rules. We shouldn't insert our own "morality" into the situation, IMHO.
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This has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with appropriate
adult behavior as defined by the NFHS and our education system.
If a kid in the hallway during school punches another kid, he gets suspended. If a teacher punches a kid, he gets fired. To me, it's the same principle on the basketball court.