Coaches: Indirect vs. Direct

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by Raymond

The coach only gets an indirect technical foul when somebody who is not one of the five players on the court gets a technical foul. That does not include any of the technical fouls they get for book fractions. It does include players who get a technical foul during pregame warmups or during halftime. It includes an illegal uniform.

To expand, the coach gets an indirect T when any team member receives a technical foul during any intermission, not just halftime. Everyone is bench personnel during intermissions. During charged timeouts, technicals assessed to any of the five players are not indirectly charged to the head coach.

And illegal uniforms are a direct T on the head coach, with nothing charged to anyone else. A maximum of one direct T can be assessed to the head coach for uniform infractions.