REFEREE mag July 2007 test

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Here are two examples of technicals that can be called during a live ball:

1) during play, A1 uses profanity directed at the official
2) during play, A1 is charged with fighting

There's actually quite a few others including some stuff a player would do to the backboard or ring during a shot.

Here's an easy way to remember that a T can be called during a live ball. During play, a coach yells the implication about the circumstances surrounding your birth that your mother was actually a female dog.

Would you only call the T if the ball was dead?

if not the ball, then definitely the coach