Technical Fouls

[Rich]

Originally Posted by La Rikardo

I didn't realize it was his fifth until after the T. Our scorer was pretty top-notch, not just a 15-year-old kid like at most sophomore games, so I'm guessing he let the coach know.

Not good enough. You (or the other official) must, by rule, notify the coach in order to make the player bench personnel.

The order is notify the head coach, start the 20-second clock for replacement, notify the player. The first horn should be five seconds after you start the clock. I always instruct the timer to never give a second horn in this situation.

We had a technical last night on a player who wanted to give his version of events on every foul he picked up. We ignored the first one, really had our radar up on the second one, and my partner decided to talk to him on the third one, although he was really close to giving a technical to him and probably should've (he actually brought the whistle up and I could tell his hands started too, although it was pretty subtle -- then he thought better of it for some reason). Then after a long talk from my partner, the kid walked past me and said something else and I calmly whacked him. Easiest technical foul I've called, probably.