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Originally posted by ronny mulkey
Chuck,
Do you take less crap from the point guard than the big post?
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Of course. He's smaller. He's got less crap to give.
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Do you take less crap from the visiting book than you do the home book?
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Actually, it depends on which scorer is cuter.
Cats and dogs -- living together!!
Mass hysteria!!!
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where do you come up with the philosophy "everybody knows that assistants have no business" or are to be seen and not heard? Did someone teach you that? Are you teaching everybody else that?
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Ok, time to be serious. Head coaches chirp. Correct? We can agree on that. They chirp to get in your head, or b/c they feel they have to advocate for their players, or b/c they're trying to buy the next close call, or whatever. Right? This chirping is almost never unsportsmanlike. Can we agree so far?
Now are you really going to allow two or
three coaches on each bench to chirp at you during the game? Even tho it's not unsportsmanlike? Seriously, are you? I'm not. So where do
you draw the line? There's one person on each bench that I will pay attention to, period. Got a question? Have your head coach ask me. If you don't do that as an official, the amount of crap you will listen to will go up exponentially.
Frankly, I can't believe that there's anybody who would say that you should listen to "word 1" from an assistant. Even the coaches know that the assistants can't talk to the officials. If you T an assistant, the head coach is
NEVER upset with the official. The head coach is upset with the assistant, b/c he
knows that the assistant never should've been talking to the official in the first place.
Is that written in stone someplace? I really don't know. And I really don't care. It's good game management to eliminate as many distractions as you can. And just to be clear, let me iterate that I
will listen to a reasonable situation-related question. (Where's the ball being put in play? Who was that last foul on? Should we have a reset on the shot clock?) But I will not listen to questions from assistants about plays, period.
I would've sworn that everybody already knew that.
P.S. -- the first person to mention Hitler loses the debate. Isn't that right, Dan?
