Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle isn’t afraid to speak his mind or put his intelligence on display. The 2011 NBA Champion recently made comments amid a losing season that the NBA is better than digging ditches, where most of us would have to agree.
He’s also not afraid to game the game a little bit.
Via Twitter:
Rick Carlisle keeps calling timeouts when he doesn't have any, knowing he'll get called for a tech. "You never really run out of timeouts."
— tim cato (@tim_cato) December 8, 2016
This feels like one of those moments where you realize that the answer to something simple is often right in front of you the entire time.
Carlisle is a basketball genius, and there’s nothing wrong if he’s technically playing within the rules -- even if what he’s doing is asking for a penalty within those rules.
Don’t hate the player -- or the coach -- hate the game.
