What do you say to coaches?

[Dennis Nicely]

This area may be my achilles heel as a basketball official, but I tend to ignore most comments from coaches, players or fans. I find that paying attention to verbal comments distracts me from the task at hand. If a coach wants a response from me, he or she will have to form complete sentence and ask me a direct question. I will do my best to answer it quickly but many times I will suggest they defer the question to a break between periods or during a time out. For you more veteran officials, am I being too formal here?