Thoughts on this Technical

[hoopologist]

Again, I'm a coach not an official and my contribution here is to say this kind of on-court behavior should have been nipped in the bud by the person guiding the team. Regardless of how I might feel on the short side of a lopsided score (and we've played Nathan Hale, Garfield, and Rainier Beach here this season so I've been there) I would not expect the officials to levy a technical foul for this.

Everything is a teaching moment and I would use this to instruct my players on the value of sportsmanship - both offered and received. By rule I doubt it's "taunting" but you all are the pros so I'll defer.

[BigCat]

Originally Posted by hoopologist

Again, I'm a coach not an official and my contribution here is to say this kind of on-court behavior should have been nipped in the bud by the person guiding the team. Regardless of how I might feel on the short side of a lopsided score (and we've played Nathan Hale, Garfield, and Rainier Beach here this season so I've been there) I would not expect the officials to levy a technical foul for this.

Everything is a teaching moment and I would use this to instruct my players on the value of sportsmanship - both offered and received. By rule I doubt it's "taunting" but you all are the pros so I'll defer.

Your right. Frankly, no player of mine would ever consider doing this. Hopefully, none of yours would either. If one of my players had an aneurism and did this there would be an immediate TO....and...

But, if you won't deal with it(or as this coach didn't) as the referee in a 70 point game I'm not going to let it happen. I will deal with it.

[RefCT]

Maybe he T'd him up because the official was jealous the kid has better dance moves than he ever had?

In all seriousness, I saw this earlier and said it would have to be HTBT moment in terms of what else was happening in the game. Without the full context, and just based on this clip, I wouldn't have T'd him up.