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From a coaching point of view, you never lay hands on a player in a hostile manor, " NEVER". It's bad policy, there are ways to get the kids attention, benching, running laps, game suspensions, etc.
Was the kid disrespectful to the coach, yes, but that happens and you can't stop this on the court yet you can handle it in house. The assistant coach started to step in and then stopped, but he handled it wrong. He should have be engaged in a way to defuse it, not add fuel to the heated exchange.
I was taught that as a HC or an Ass. coach here in some of the Jr Pro, MS,& HS I have worked is to separate the HC & the player, allow the HC to address the team, let things cool off and an assistant can handle the player or the coach can address him after the TO. It's how we did things here at the HS level, kids attitudes fuel quicker now days than when I went to school.
Always defuse the heated exchange and handle it in house, doing it on the court allows the world to see what type of asshole you are.
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