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Jeff R has some great advice. You are well within the rule book to give a T. It's all about context and your own personal style and standards.
Some players and coaches get it, and you can be direct and honest with them. Humor also works with them, because you know nothing will escalate. Others do not, and that's when you have to get firm, once.
If this kid fit into the first category, I'd have given him a pass. Even in the second category, unless he had almost gotten T'd before, I'd have given him one more chance. Without profanity, unless you get horrible body language, in a tight game with not much time left, as long as it ends there, I'd let the game run its course without the T.
Did that team end up winning or losing, and by what margin?
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