Emotions can't get best of Tyson Chandler

“I know what type of game I need to play and I’m going to keep my focus and play the game smart, but I’m still going to play with my with my emotions,” Chandler said. “That’s just me. It got us here, I can’t stop now.”

Carlisle said he’s not terribly concerned about Chandler going off the deep end with the stakes at an all-time high. Although, clearly it’s on the coach’s mind or why else bring it up for public consumption on a radio talk show?

“With each passing playoff series he gets more and more experience in these situations, and I look for him to play his best basketball in the Finals,” Carlisle said. “A lot of his technicals have been rescinded. There is a tendency for officials to react quickly when something happens and a lot of times you don’t really see the whole story unless you rewind it on film.”

Half of Chandler’s eight technicals during the regular season were rescinded, making his overall total: 14 technicals with six having been rescinded. Still, a technical only becomes rescinded the following day after a review by the league. The technical free throw awarded, no matter at what point of the game or how damaging, stands.

Chandler shouldn’t be induced into as many emotional-type situations since Miami doesn’t play a lumbering, physical center who seeks out confrontation. Chandler will likely see plenty of time against forward Chris Bosh and 6-foot-9 center Joel Anthony.
Still, Chandler said he hopes the officiating crews have taken note of his technical foul history mostly as the non-initiator before reacting to a situation for a quick T.

“I just hope they take a look at it and see that a lot of it is not me and that’s why they’ve been able to rescind so many of them,” Chandler said. “But sometimes it’s hard for a referee out there, I understand that. You don’t get the proper angle and this and that. But since they have seen the past and have seen a lot of times that I’m not the initiator, hopefully they’ll pay a little more attention to it.”