[ronny mulkey]

Mick,

I agree wholeheartedly with you about giving the assistant a little dignity. He works long days AND ends up doing all the things the head coach doesn't want to do. I am not buyin into the mantra that we should put up with a little crap from the head coach but not any at all from the assistant. I'm standing out there on the floor listening to one of my partners who is saying "I'll listen to the headcoach but I'm not listening to anything from that sum*****" and I'm thinking that I'll listen to the assistant but I'm not taking anything from that sum*****. It is my way of sayin to treat them the same - not necessarily like sum*****es but use bench decorum guidelines for both.