Easy with the T's????

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally posted by ATXCoach

One of the posters above referred to a incident when a player on the bench kicked a chair in disgust. I think a justified T the way he/she described, but how do you determine when a player is upset with themselves and when they are upset with the refs when the actions aren't really directed at anyone? Does it matter? If they simply slam the chair with their fist is that less punishable/ignorable?

Most experienced officials know the difference between a player being frustrated at themselves or when they're pissed off at us.

Having said that, some actions are gonna earn 'em a "T", no matter what. This includes:
- kicking chairs.
- hammering the scoring table.
- pulling their shirt out and covering their face.
- bouncing the ball hard after the play is over so that the ball goes higher than their head.
- tossing the ball down court or out-of-bounds.
- any profanity/obscenity that can be be heard by the crowd.

Those are all pretty much automatic "T"s with most officials, Coach.