Technical Policy

this can’t last, there’s going to be 4 technicals a game at this rate.

1. Refs get bored and stop calling it a month later.
2. The refs keep calling it, and the players actually adjust, and the T’s get called a lot less.

Either way, this is a really hard transition period right now.

And I agree, the bigger problem is the refs themselves. Perhaps if players can no longer express their displeasure with officiating on the court, they’ll express their displeasure the way they should have for the last 20 years: Through the players’ union to Stern directly, then through the media if necessary.

I’ll be fine if I never see the “Duncan Face” ever again.

Honestly it wouldn’t be a bad new rule if they just enforced it throughout the entire game and not in moments. If they called the technical everytime a player reacted wrong then I would be fine (including the Kobe’s and the Lebron’s).

The fact is they wont and this silly rule just effects non aggressive whiney teams like the Blazers (Blazers rarely get technicals, they got 3 tonight). In other words it’s not needed.

i hate the authoritarian style of refs and the nba being above reproach and questioning.

…I find this as bad as that switch to the new ball a few years back-the one the players said was nicking their fingers. I don’t give a lick about excessive complaining-I think players have every reason to complain given the woefully inconsistent nature of the calls they deal with every game. I think the success of the Magic/Bird NBA generation went to David Stern’s head a LONG time ago, and that manifests itself in needless dictates from on high like this one. And I’m intrigued by the suggestion (from the Fox site, I believe) that this is an attempt to intimidate players in view of the ongoing labor negotiations.

It’s going to interrupt game flow like when the Clippers had a fast break but a T (on Miller I think) was called.
It’s never going to get enforced fairly. That’s just human nature and stars will tend to get the benefit of the doubt. Roy was probably guilty of a T or two according to the new rules but he didn’t get called.
Players reacting with emotion (something we want to see) will be confused with players complaining to the refs (something we don’t want to see)

It won’t be long before it swings a game and starts a media storm.

It’s not the national baby association, after all.

They were handing out T’s like candy on Halloween at the beginning of the season , but by the end it was the same old calls. Will this year end the same?

Miller gets T’d up, but then the very next possession Baron Davis does the exact same thing but worse and gets nothing. I do like the idea of less complaining but at what cost? I have a feeling this rule is here to stay though.

….under Stern the N.B.A. seems so paranoid. Everything seems based on the philosophy of using fines and power to keep others from doing or saying things that The League thinks makes them look bad….

  And I agree, I’ve never watched a N.B.A. season and thought the problem with it was that the REFs weren’t calling enough technicals.

  Players have changed. If the league doesn’t want as much show boating or fist pumping, jersey tearing….fine….

   But the real problem has been inconsistent policy applied by the refs throughout the season and from team to team, player to player.

    Fix the Refs…not the players.