What other signal would you give? + A question.

[Brad]

With all due respect, I think that the officials who are looking to make this call are simply looking for trouble.

I have seen one case where a technical foul should have been issued for a player leaving the court unauthorized. It was on America's Funniest Videos (or some such show) and the player in question went out the double doors on one side of the court (off of the endline). Then, a few seconds later, appeared through the other set of double doors on the other side of the court — completely unguarded, of course. The ball was passed to him and he promptly made a 3-pointer.

The case above is a situation where the player knowingly and purpousfully disregarded the rules and gained an advantage in doing so. A technical foul is deserved in this case — hopefully recognized before the 3-point attempt so that you can disallow that as well!

In the other cases that I have seen mentioned on this board, calling a technical certainly doesn't seem warranted and will probably only get you into hot water.

That's my $0.02 anyway...