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Originally posted by mick
Sparky,
I had a coach just screamin' at me the other night on a no-call. It was during a dead ball. He was outa the box about mid-court.
I walked over to his coaching box and stood on the floor with my hands behind my back, and my head humbly bowed, while he carved me a new orifice. He wasn't swearing, just talking loudly. (When I walked to the spot in front of his box, he, of course, followed cuz he wasn't quite done with me.)
I listened.
I left.
At halftime during warm-ups, he still wanted to talk about it. We had some time so I explained; my partner said he, too, had nothing. He became calm.
End of the game,he again said he was sorry for getting over-excited.
The point, I think, is to allow the coach to love the game as much as we do. If we bring confidence to the floor, then I think most of the emotion is unimportant.
mick
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Well said, Mick. Have fun, try not to take things personally, work hard and things will fall into place nicely, most of the time. I had a coach upset over a call a week or so ago. His girl, playing defense on a shooter, jumped, banged her arm down slapping the shooter in the face. Of course, when I blow the whistle she's standing with her arms straight up and the "what'd I do" look. He's all over me on the way to the table, saying she was straight up, blah, blah, blah. I report the foul, he's still ranting and raving, so I walk over stand quietly in front of the bench, til he quits howling. I had already explained the call briefly to him so I wasn't going to address that again. When he quieted down I asked "are we done" in a very calm voice, he said "yyeeess" like a whiny ten year old, and I went to my trail position for the free throws. Don't know if this approach is recommended but it worked very well for me in this situation. I know if I had went across and heard him yapping non-stop where everybody in the gym could hear, it would have tripped my trigger and I would have ended up whacking him, so I handled it this way.