T or ignore?....

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I have to disagree here if you are only waiting for the curse word.

You're right. I worded that badly. I'm not only waiting for the curse word. My point was only that using the curse words that way leaves me no choice. There will other times that are abusive, without being vulgar, as you point out. But when it is vulgar and abusive, as in my example, I think (hope) we can agree that a T there is necessary regardless of time/score.

Also abusive does not mean that you had to use certain words. You can be abusive if you are loud and obnoxious.

Agreed. But I think you can also be loud and obnoxious without being abusive. You call a foul and the kid LOUDLY says, "Oh, come on!" Loud, yes. T? Not for me.

We are mostly talking about school aged kids, not the pros or even college. So if I have a kid yelling at me and saying "Are you going to call a foul?" we will have some problems.

Agreed again. (When do we start hugging?) But for me, anyway, I may not use a technical foul to address those problems. In fact, I will almost definitely NOT use a technical foul for a first offense.

I am not saying that a T with 14 seconds is the best time

We're 4-for-4, because I agree yet again.

I once T'd a coach with about :56 in a game and I knew I had him later in the season. He yelled when the game was quite and tried to make a situation personal. The T made the game better at the time because he did not do that again and most of all the next game I had him

Then it's a great technical foul.

[tref]

Great points Scrapper1 & JRut!

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

But I think you can also be loud and obnoxious without being abusive. You call a foul and the kid LOUDLY says, "Oh, come on!" Loud, yes. T? Not for me.

I had a T like this in a camp setting this summer. Initially I passed & was gonna set him straight after I took care of business. But he chose to walk behind me from the paint to the top of the key being extremely demonstrative... so I whacked him.

I hate it when the player not involved in the play is not only talking the most but also wrong as two left shoes.

Instead of using timelines for determining good technicals, I like the 3 questions we ask ourselves:

1. Does it fit the game?
2. Can my immediate supervisor defend?
3. Does it make the game better?

3 for 3 is a T!