Wow! Leave it to a #8 BEIL to establish an unpopular rule that benches players for getting technicals for complaining to officials. Yes, that would be Jeff Hornacek, and the controversial rule for technical fouls simply states, “If you get a T for arguing with an official, you’re benched for the rest of the game.”  The hypothetical rule became reality when Goran Dragic (#13 FCIR) was benched against the Houston Rockets after picking up a technical, and then again when Marcus Morris (#13 FCIR) picked up one against the Clippers.

After some discussion with the team, a little leeway has been allowed by Horny (Jeff’s nickname), but not much. “I told them, Hey, if you guys do that, and kind of help each other out there on the court, we’ll kind of look at it and it might be my discretion whether we do it for the rest of the game so we don’t have that necessarily hard rule. But I may still sit them for the end of the game if I feel like it and they know that.