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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
10-4-1d,f or g.
You're right, 10-5-5 is for the coach, and it would be a stretch to boot the player when you're only applying the T to the coach.
My first instinct is to hit the player directly (coach indirectly) using 10-4-1d or 10-4-4; making it flagrant based on 4-18 or 4-19-4.
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1) 10-4-1(d) only applies to opponents, not fans.
2) As for 10-4-1(f), there is no mention of the team member inciting the crowd
2) 10-4-1(g) isn't really relevant imo as they specifically said to "confront" with no mention of a fight.
Agree that the best way imo to deal with the team member is to just give him a generic "T" under the generic wording of 10-4-1..."commit an unsporting foul". Making it flagrant is reasonable in my mind also. And the head coach has to get an indirect "T" also because he was responsible for that team member on the bench. Going into the stands to confront a fan sureashell is an unsporting foul imo. There's precedent for ruling exactly like that also, as in SITUATION 9 from the 2008-09 Rules Interpretations. In that one a team member fought with a spectator at half time. The RULING was to charge the team member with a flagrant "T" and the head coach with an indirect "T". The situations are almost similar.
And also, in SITUATION 12 of the 2005-06 interps, you have the classic of a team member on the bench coming onto the floor to block a shot. The Ruling in that one was 2 technical fouls charged to the team member. Of course, in this particular ruling there is also no mention of giving the head coach an indirect "T" along with each of the "t"s given to the team member.
http://forum.officiating.com/basketb...s-archive.html
Not very much consistency in the various rulings by the FED imo.