Missouri men’s basketball coach Cuonzo Martin is physically allergic to receiving technical fouls. He has been hit with one in his 353 games as a head coach. But if breaking from character and earning one (or two) techs this season has any chance of altering how officials are impacting the game of Jeremiah Tilmon, it’s worth a shot.
This is on Tilmon, first and foremost. You can’t be whistled for bad fouls if you don’t put yourself in position to be whistled for them. Usually, you would say you can’t be whistled for fouls if you don’t commit them, but there are definitely times when Tilmon is whistled for fouls that would not be called fouls if another player did the exact same thing.