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Originally Posted by Pantherdreams
Thanks just doing as the Romans do here in Rome.
Seriously though if just doing the job of calling the game is the total extent of your interest and sense of responsibility that fine. I just do not like the idea that is put out that there is never situation in which coaches and officials should be having long conversations. We coach games with coaches of all age groups here, run officiating clinics for youth officials/minor officials who are also the kids we are officiating in older games, 50% or more of our officials in our association are/were also coaches at some level or work in a leadership capacity in minor basketball associations. If we aren't taking every opportunity we can to have conversations to make the game better or better understood who is?
Without getting into what ifs forever. If Coach A comes out to talk, or I'm standing by the timeout area talking, or a magic carpet becomes invovled and Coach B wants to talk too? In the million to one shot that both want to be reasonable and are strictly curious about rules then I would work it out. In any other situation I'm not sure what Coach B is thinking matters to me at that point. Not sure what your point here is??
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No way. Don't pull that "someone crapped on me, so I get to crap on you" garbage. Unless you are a 7th grade girl, that's just not gonna work.
And again, I never said not to talk with Coaches. But there is a time and place for it. Out in the middle of the court during a timeout is not the time or the place.
And the other Coach - if you do decide to have that long conversation out in the middle of the court - is going to figure that you are in that coaches pocket and he is going to get screwed. Or worse, is going to want to have his own conversation at the next timeout, and the next, and the next...