Can a player get an intentional technical foul to stop fastbreak?

Cubbies2120 · Post #1 » by **Cubbies2120** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:38 pm

Let's say you're on offense, and your team misses a shot, and Giannis gets the rebound and starts a fast break. Could a player turn to the ref and yell in his face, curse at him and get a technical to stop the fastbreak? *

*Not applicable to Draymond Green as it would not result in a technical

Scalabrine · Post #2 » by **Scalabrine** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:50 pm

The ref SHOULD wait till after the advantage and call the T once the play is done or has slowed down. Thats what theyre taught to do at least.

Liam_Gallagher · Post #3 » by **Liam_Gallagher** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:59 pm

The refs wait until the fast break is over.

lambchop · Post #4 » by **lambchop** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:07 pm

I doubt that simply screaming and shooting would do the job. It would have to be something so severe that the referee feels as though it requires the immediate attention of all the referees in order to stop the situation from escalating., for example if Giannis gets the rebound and starts the fast break, but now one of the opponents grabs Portis' balls and then Portis' eyes immediately pop out/ he goes into serious mode (see the picture below). The only way to de-escalate that is to stop play ASAP.

Hoppy1 · Post #5 » by **Hoppy1** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 4:45 pm

I wish the NBA would make technical fouls also count as personal fouls. It would clean up the game.
Heard yesterday on the radio something similar and it makes sense. Stopping all the complaining to the refs makes the game better. Too many times the players are arguing instead of heading back to play defense.
If you start T-ing them up, they will get the message.

TwitterFingers · Post #6 » by **TwitterFingers** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:50 pm

You’re highlighting a scenario that refs sometimes blatantly favor one team over the other on. Sometimes they blow the whistle right away and stop a fast break. Sometimes they wait for a team to score before they blow the whistle. They do it purely on their own discretion

hauntedcomputer · Post #7 » by **hauntedcomputer** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:22 pm

TwitterFingers wrote:You’re highlighting a scenario that refs sometimes blatantly favor one team over the other on. Sometimes they blow the whistle right away and stop a fast break. Sometimes they wait for a team to score before they blow the whistle. They do it purely on their own discretion

Or the betting lines they played.

UcanUwill · Post #8 » by **UcanUwill** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:25 pm

This is kinda exactly what happened in this Eurobasket. FIBA refs are easily the least qualified, and that was special, guy stole the ball near half court, ran to fastbreak all alone to dunk it, and refs stopped the game to give a technical foul to opponent coach. So yeah, if you have D grade Euro referees, it happens man...

Lalouie · Post #9 » by **Lalouie** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:32 pm

lambchop wrote:

has the eyeballs on this face been ps'd?????

lambchop · Post #10 » by **lambchop** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:45 am

Lalouie wrote:
lambchop wrote:

has the eyeballs on this face been ps'd?????

No, there's actually a meme series based on his eyes.

Bobby Portis' Eyes refers to a series of memes made in reaction to and teasing Milwaukee Bucks player Bobby Portis' large eyes, which became popular following the team's Game 6 win during the 2021 NBA Finals. Memes about Portis' eyes and appearance began circulating on Twitter prior to the game, with many users comparing him to a specific image of Squidward with bulging eyes from SpongeBob SquarePants.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bobby-portis-eyes

And Portis seems to be owning that too, judging by that pic.

Fencer reregistered · Post #11 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:52 am

If you're out of TOs, you could call a TO anyway.

Seriously, I've forgotten the NBA history of that maneuver, but I think it was done to good effect once, after which there was a rule change.

Googling finds the current rule pretty easily: https://official.nba.com/rule-no-12-fouls-and-penalties/#excessivetimeouts But I can't as easily find the incident I thought occurred; instead I'm finding references to Chris Webber's famous college snafu and to a recent Donovan Mitchell brain cramp.

Colbinii · Post #12 » by **Colbinii** » Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:28 pm

Hoppy1 wrote:I wish the NBA would make technical fouls also count as personal fouls. It would clean up the game.
Heard yesterday on the radio something similar and it makes sense. Stopping all the complaining to the refs makes the game better. Too many times the players are arguing instead of heading back to play defense.
If you start T-ing them up, they will get the message.

They do get a technical after the fast break is complete.