Ignoring Donovan Mitchell’s foul on Draymond, and the whole looking at the previous play thing, and whether it sets a werid precedent around retaliation, I can’t figure out what the tech on Draymond was for.
The rulebook states:
Section V—Conduct
An official may assess a technical foul, without prior warning, at any time. A technical foul(s) may be assessed to any player on the court or anyone seated on the bench for conduct which, in the opinion of an official, is detrimental to the game. The technical foul must be charged to an individual. A technical foul cannot be assessed for physical contact when the ball is alive.
EXCEPTION: Fighting fouls and/or taunting with physical contact.
Since the ball was live, how was it a technical foul?
Bleacher Report has a good video of the shove: https://bleacherreport.com/game/cleveland-cavaliers-vs-golden-state-warriors-2023-11-11-17-30
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I’m a real refs fan and this season has been some of their best work
Interestingly, I always felt that when the league office retroactively gave Draymond a flagrant 1 in 2016, that it should have been a tech.
I guess eventually when you do what he does, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt.
Because he is a cunt
The foul was assessed in a deadball state lol. They called a common foul on Donovan to stop play. The escalation in the aftermath of the foul lead to the refs going to monitor.
They then reviewed the leadup to Donovan’s shove on Draymond to see if he deserved a tech and saw that Draymond indeed shoved Donovan in the back which is an easy Tech since it is a non-basketball play that is dangerous.
Cathartic release
Ref show.
Can you retroactively assess a personal foul for something that happened on a previous play?
You’re missing the part you are just quoting:
An official may assess a technical foul, without prior warning, at any time.
If he don’t get them taken away by the nba I would sue the refs just to prove a point. If I was him.
Folks just refusing to actually answer the question
FIA is in charge tonight
Who cares he gets away with murder
Well deserved
refs have been horrendous whole game. drama queens
Makeup call for the hundreds missed in the past