Situation starting season-Dunk in warmups

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Did this player get ejected with 2 T's? Dunking a dead ball and hanging on the rim.

Originally Posted by Indianaref

Look at case play 10.3.3 Situation E. Only one T is issued.

Originally Posted by rwest

Each player is assessed a technical foul and the coach is assessed an indirect T for dunk. So, he has 3 indirects and is gone!

He knows that; he was responding to whether one player could have been given two Ts.

Personally, I like the idea of capping the pregame indirects at 2. Go ahead and give the dunk and hanger the 2nd T.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

He knows that; he was responding to whether one player could have been given two Ts.

Personally, I like the idea of capping the pregame indirects at 2. Go ahead and give the dunk and hanger the 2nd T.

But there is no rules basis for any capping. So how would you justify this?

BTW, where was the coach in all this? (Yeah, I know, it's a theoretical situation) Why would he let three players do this without taking some action, hopefully after the first one, but definitely after the second.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

But there is no rules basis for any capping. So how would you justify this?

BTW, where was the coach in all this? (Yeah, I know, it's a theoretical situation) Why would he let three players do this without taking some action, hopefully after the first one, but definitely after the second.

There isn't any rules basis for it. Sorry I wasn't clear, but I'd be in favor of amending the rule to put a cap on pre-game indirect technicals. Although the frequency of this situation is such that it wouldn't really have any effect at all. But since we're already getting theoretorical.

As for the coach, not sure there's much he can do to physically prevent the players from doing this. They've already decided they don't want to play for him, so unless he can physically restrain them, I doubt he can stop it.

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

There isn't any rules basis for it. Sorry I wasn't clear, but I'd be in favor of amending the rule to put a cap on pre-game indirect technicals. Although the frequency of this situation is such that it wouldn't really have any effect at all. But since we're already getting theoretorical.

What is the point of doing that? So he gets 2 indirects before the game, all the third player has to do is stand up off the bench as soon as the game starts. You're just delaying the ejection. If they want him gone you won't be able to stop them.

[Adam]

LDUB, that's a good point. Might give him a chance to address it before the game, though. Then again, the players could all simply jump off the bench as soon as the ball becomes live.

I'm no longer in favor of that change; it wouldn't have any impact.