https://official.nba.com/rule-no-12-fouls-and-penalties/
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.
So as the ball was live when Draymond’s shove happened (https://imgur.com/a/sbkQB1K), why did they assess the T for it retroactively? Flagrant or common foul if they did not think the contact was enough for flagrant imo.
Truly a Ben Taylor special.
Let this be known…we do not care. Draymond is the one person in the league who i do not mind gettin fucked by the refs.
He also didn’t get fucked by the refs….there were 2 incidents right before this happened where he easily should’ve been given his 2nd tech but somehow got away with both of them. One of the times he drew a charge on Allen, got up, screamed in his face, bumped into him and kept screaming and somehow didn’t get his 2nd tech. Then 1 minute later he pushes Mitchell out of bounds
So I guess it’s indeed impossible to have a normal discussion about rules if it involves Draymond, lol.
Refs fucked up by giving him a wrong foul, then fucked up again by giving Spida just a common foul and it is a common occurence in this season (JJJ, Giannis ejections etc), but lets just focus on “Fuck Draymond”.
This is abundantly clear - I don’t like Draymond (or the Warriors lol but good luck tonight) but I like rules discussions / referee accountability. The downvotes you’re getting on here make it pretty clear everybody would rather just shit on Draymond / say “he deserves it no matter what!” than actually have a discussion about the rules.
Yes it is impossible to have a normal discussion about rules in regards to dray because he literally breaks rules and gets away with it constantly.
Cry bout it.
The irony of “cry about it” when you’re literally saying “we won’t talk to you /will downvotes you about this interesting wrinkle in the rules that may have been misapplied because I don’t like that guy and he makes me so mad!”
“Oh no people criticized my favorite bully what will I do.”
Cry more
I watched draymond nutcracker his way to the finals, stomp on ppls chest. I do not care if he gets fucked I for one enjoy the refs finally giving draymond what he deserves .
Mate Dray had already 5 offenses that could have been given techs. Obviously no-one is thinking the way this all went down was without error but eventually we arrived at the correct outcome, so you’re gonna have a hard time convincing anyone otherwise.