Knicks/Celtics- I've seen 4 technicals called in the half game I've watched.

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It's over the top.

I get that the league needed to tweak rules to keep things from escalating, but some of what is now a tech is absurd.
 

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It leads to leaving the bench and worse.

But Chandler expressed emotion and it came out in a quick and unintentional stand up and slap of a towel.
Oh the horror. Oh the offense. How terrible of him.

A rule with good intentions that isn't well used in that instance.

The T on Pavolvich(or however you spell it) was brutal. They slow-mo'd the play that led to the T and he was the one being fouled multiple times. He didn't retaliate. He didn't foul. WTF was the T for? The announcers said ref Joey won't stand for talking back, but he wasn't talking when he was called for the T.