Bouncing the Ball Hard - a Tech?

[ChuckElias]

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.

It's flagrantly unsportsmanlike. How could you eject the player (on a single unsportsmanlike foul) unless you judged the act to be flagrant?

If you're ejecting for a single act, then by definition (FED), it's a flagrant foul.