[Pantherdreams]

Coach's job is to coach. If he needs info from me to help him do that, and its phrased as a question that I can quickly answer to help him, help the kid, and help the game then they get explanations when asked for.

I'm not talking about "How are you calling that after you let x go?" or "What the hell?"

Its pretty common practice here that a kid gets a T/intentional/flagrant/unsportsmanlike and coaches are sending a sub to the table regardless even up into varsity and small college levels. If they aren't sure what happened they will often ask "What did they do?" and its not to start a debate its so he/she can direct the conversation they need to have with the kid.

Maybe in FIBA its a little more common because we've got some automatic unsportsmanlike fouls, that aren't the kid being dirty or excessive its just automatic in the situation, so a lot of coaches get into the habit of trying to establish if their kid was out of control or if it was just an automatic.

ie. A1 is turning the corner to breakaway B1 tries to get back in the play and knocks A1 down from the side. I come up unsportsmanlike. Now the coach is going to want to know if their player shoved/was dirty etc or if its just an automatic clear path for fouling from the side or behind. This questioning tends to get extended to any non common foul without many bad results, just information to help the coaches deal with the player and the situation.