[so cal lurker]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

If coaches and bench personnel are on the court, the onus is entirely on them if a players runs into them, whether it's intentional or not.

But as a coach am I really going to gamble that every referee will see it that way rather than consider it a doofus move rather than call something on the player for initiating? Or just no call it on the ground that the coach wasn't actually interfering with anything since it was player initiated? Sometimes it does make sense to just play the game. . . .