Bouncing the Ball Hard - a Tech?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by SCBroncos
How can throwing the ball at the official be a flagrant foul? Don't you have to foul someone to make a foul flagrant? Sure, we could eject the player for unsporstmanlike conduct, but I don't see how it is a flagrant foul.

You're kidding, right?

What do you call it if someone swears at you, for instance? You need to read the definition of a flagrant foul in R4-19-4-- "A flagrant foul may be a personal or technical foul of a violent or savage nature, or a technical noncontact foul which displays unacceptable conduct". I'd say that describes the act of throwing the ball at an official to a T. A flagrant T, that is!