Get Back in the Box, Then Whack

[bainsey]

In today's Phoenix/Minnesota WNBA playoff game, here's a sequence of events I found curious:

*Minnesota coach is out of the coaching box, complaining and giving the wave-off gesture.
*Official, with the stop sign up, tells the coach to get back in the box.
*Coach gets back in box, both feet firmly inside in the lines, facing the official.
*Whack.

If someone wants to find the video, it's at the 5:38 mark of the second quarter, caught perfectly on replay.

[Adam]

Sounds like someone was asserting control.

Coach was being a dick about getting back in the box. I don't think the official was planning on whacking her if she get back in respectfully. I'm probably wrong though, being out of the box is pretty much an auto-whack in the NBA, and I assume the WNBA as well.

[blindzebra]

The coach did a very emphatic one-two step back into the box, stomping her feet with her hands outstretched in a WTF gesture.

A much deserved T.

[JetMetFan]

I'll post later but it was a case of "it's not what the coach did but how she did it." Minnesota's coach was trying to show up the official. She played the game and she lost.

[JetMetFan]

Here it is...one more thing to consider is the context. Taurasi had received a T about 1:00 of playing time earlier for complaining about a (correct) non-call. There's a chance the crew's "nonsense" meter was in the red by this time.