Coach K gets whacked

[Rich]

Hey, I understand. I've only excused 2 basketball coaches in 24 years. I have had one or two that in retrospect I probably should've gotten rid of, but you just don't think that way in the heat of it all -- a basketball ejection is like the nuclear option.

For some reason, it's easier in baseball. Usually the coach is out on the field when he crosses the line and it seems more normal ejecting baseball coaches than ejecting basketball coaches.

[grunewar]

Anyone see Huggy being "restrained" by his Asst Coaches this weekend?

Another unhappy customer.

Bwahahahahah!

[SethPDX]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Anyone see Huggy being "restrained" by his Asst Coaches this weekend?

Another unhappy customer.

Bwahahahahah!

Missed that, but he looked like he rolled in off the golf course in that short sleeve windbreaker.

[26 Year Gap]

Where's the dang "like" button?

[BktBallRef]

One of my regular partners was at the game, about 20 rows behind the Duke bench. He could stare right into K's face during timeouts. I didn't see the call but my partner, who is not a Duke fan, said it was a terrible call. Everybody thought the call was going against GT. So when Kersey signaled Dule #3, K lost. My partner told his friend to watch because a T was coming. Sure enough. Kersey went opposite and ignored K, which pissed him off all the more. If igure K either said a magic word or it had already been building up, an ABS T.

[Victor74]

It may have been a deserved technical, but it was a predictable one. Coach K did have every reason to be upset. He was more upset at the previous player control foul on Nolan Smith. The call on the Duke player afterwards was just icing on the cake.

[jbduke]

Originally Posted by Victor74

It may have been a deserved technical, but it was a predictable one. Coach K did have every reason to be upset. He was more upset at the previous player control foul on Nolan Smith. The call on the Duke player afterwards was just icing on the cake.

I agree it was predictable, but not because K had every reason to be upset. The aforementioned PC call by Hess was absolute nails. And on the play leading up to the technical, Duke's Thornton was holding Tech's Shumpert. And holding, and holding. Finally he lets go for a moment, but by that time Shumpert has had enough and gives him a little push with his arm, sending the Duke player to ground. Thornton's performance was tremendous. I watched him go down on replay three or four times last night, convinced he'd taken a forearm to the chops. But when I cued up the play tonight, it's clear that Shumpert never made contact with Thornton much above chest level.

I just wish Kersey had pulled the trigger on the hold on Thornton early. He gets credit for a correct call, probably avoids a technical foul, and nobody's talking about him today.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Anyone see Huggy being "restrained" by his Asst Coaches this weekend?

Another unhappy customer.

Bwahahahahah!

Huggy didn't even get whacked for that, did he?

I guess I don't belong at that level -- anytime a coach needs to be held back by someone equals a technical foul in my world.

[APG]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Hey, I understand. I've only excused 2 basketball coaches in 24 years. I have had one or two that in retrospect I probably should've gotten rid of, but you just don't think that way in the heat of it all -- a basketball ejection is like the nuclear option.

For some reason, it's easier in baseball. Usually the coach is out on the field when he crosses the line and it seems more normal ejecting baseball coaches than ejecting basketball coaches.

Oh, I'm not saying there needs to be more ejections. It just seems like at that level, they're slow to even T some of these actions...like a coach has to be over the top just to receive much less an ejection.

I mean, is there a reason we should allow a coach to go on for a minute like Coach K did after being T'd? Should we allow a coach to be yelling across the court like he's doing? The whole reason we go opposite on technical fouls on the coach is to avoid a possible confrontation and allow the coach to cool down, but he's not even doing that!