I love hearing when a player "went after the official". What exactly does that mean?

 

In this case, the official was talking to the mason player. The official made several gestures as if to calm down but the mason player was yelling the entire time and became more and more animated. He eventually was given a technical. In my opinion, if the player was quiet and walked away you would have never heard of this issue. After the "t" was given. It appeared to me that the ref turned to walk to the scorers table but the mason player ran in front of the ref and continued yelling. That drew the second "t".

I thought the mason player was give ample opportunity to walk away. I have no clue what was being said and I only saw the two players go down. Nothing bad after they were on the floor that I saw. What caused them to go down? Dunno, didn't see

In this case, the official was talking to the mason player. The official made several gestures as if to calm down but the mason player was yelling the entire time and became more and more animated. He eventually was given a technical. In my opinion, if the player was quiet and walked away you would have never heard of this issue. After the "t" was given. It appeared to me that the ref turned to walk to the scorers table but the mason player ran in front of the ref and continued yelling. That

drew the second "t".

I thought the mason player was give ample opportunity to walk away. I have no clue what was being said and I only saw the two players go down. Nothing bad after they were on the floor that I saw. What caused them to go down? Dunno, didn't see

That's what I saw he did not "go after" as charging the official or even physically get near him. He just was talking to the official and not appear to be screaming. I have no idea either what he said but he did not stop talking. He could have walked away with no "t", as you said.

In this case, the official was talking to the mason player. The official made several gestures as if to calm down but the mason player was yelling the entire time and became more and more animated. He eventually was given a technical. In my opinion, if the player was quiet and walked away you would have never heard of this issue. After the "t" was given. It appeared to me that the ref turned to walk to the scorers table but the mason player ran in front of the ref and continued yelling. That drew the second "t".

I thought the mason player was give ample opportunity to walk away. I have no clue what was being said and I only saw the two players go down. Nothing bad after they were on the floor that I saw. What caused them to go down? Dunno, didn't see

 

Gotcha, in my mind when I hear that I picture the player attacking the official which is almost never the case. Sounds as if the T's were well deserved