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"What happened at the end of the game wasn't necessary," Barnes said. "I respect Ted. But that didn't need to happen. All I said was if the officials are going to call fouls when there's contact on the perimeter, you have to call fouls when there's contact inside. And we were obviously trying to get the ball inside in the second half."
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What did any of that have to do with what happen just before 3.9 seconds to go in the game? Let us say that that is what he was complaining about, for argument sake of course. What did his complaining about fouls on the perimeter have to do with his player putting up a horrible shot, then his players getting out hustled for the rebound? Am I missing something here?
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Perhaps more disconcerting was Mouton's contention that when he asked Valentine to explain a questionable fifth foul called on him, Valentine replied, "Shut the [expletive] up, you're not in the NBA."
Valentine couldn't be reached for comment on that allegation.
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If that is at all what Teddy said, he was wrong. But this is not the NBA. It is not the job of the officials to explain anything to a coach. No matter how much they are complaining about a call.
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Wow, this speaks for itself. Valentine shouldn't have used explicitives toward Mouton. I wasn't there and I do not know what exactly was said therefore I can't pass total judgment.
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I for do not believe any coach that curse all the time at that level. And it is rather common. Maybe Valentine should not use that kind of language, but if we T them up for it, then we are seen as the bad guy all the time. So you really cannot win. But considering that coaches are scoundrels most of the time, I really do not believe that at all. It would have been better to just not say anything. But I do not blame Valentine for that any more than others that speak. Because coaches spend so much time yelling, they always seem to want to get upset if we "give it back to them," or draw a line with what they say to us.
Peace