Leaving the court early

[Kelvin green]

I am never going to penalize a Coach for getting a numbskull off the floor.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Kelvin green

I am never going to penalize a Coach for getting a numbskull off the floor.

I agree.

MTD, Sr.

Hi dcourtney50 thanks for coming here wanting to learn. I noticed you mentioned a "bench technical" in your OP and wanted to clarify that for you. Any substitute or bench personnel (assistant coaches, managers, etc.) that receives a bench technical is also "indirect" to you the head coach.

Basically it means you are responsible for your bench and holds you responsible by putting you a little closer to ejection (in addition to the free throws and getting the ball). The head coach is ejected when a combination of three direct or indirect technicals is reached. Many refs call it an "indirect technical" but I prefer to think of it as a technical that has indirect properties, so that we don't confuse it with a separate technical.

Thus, you as the head coach could receive an "indirect" by your assistant getting whacked, get a technical yourself, and then have a bench player get whacked (again indirect to you) and you would then be ejected. In your OP the referee was wrong that one more would result in ejection -- none of the two technicals he called had any indirect properties to you. Even if your player had been bench personnel when he got his second you would only have 1 indirect and could get two more before ejection.

[so cal lurker]

Perhaps the referee who gave the second T was not aware the coach told him to come off, and believed from the way he left and went to the bench that he was doing it to demonstrate disgust with the calls?