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Originally posted by Rickref
Hawks Coach let's put this in another perspective. Your in practice explaining to a player how to read screens. He doesn't respond. So you say "Do you understand" are you now demeaning this player. What if he doesn't respond to you after that. What consequence will there be. Are the other players expecting something to happen? Is he questioning your authority as a coach? I think the "do you understand" was probably more of courtesy to make sure he understood, because if he didn't he's about to be T'd up for violating the plane again. He's being disrespectful in both instances. I've already stated that I would pass on a T in this circumstance, but I find it difficult for a coach to defend this behavior. Winning demands an attitude, not this type of attitude however.
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I coach him - he has to respond to me or I can bench him. My relationship to my player is something different than yours as a ref. And I may speak to different players in different ways, knowing how they react to things. You don't know this nor should you.
Not all players view you as people who are there to help. And you are not there to coach him - you are there to make the call. If it is a 9 year old game, the question you asked has merit - they are just learning the game. For a HS varsity age player, make your calls and move on - you aren't their coach, you aren't there to teach them.
And I am not defending the player, I am explaining what he might have been thinking. Yeah I think he might be copping an attitude, but I am simply saying that refs shouldn't be looking to T a player for having an attitude they don't like when they make a call. You and I agree on this. When I see a player copping an attitude on the court, I yank them. But that is a coaching decision, not a referee's decision. If the palyer is po'd the best thing to do is say nothing rather than say what is on his mind - I tell my players that all the time.