Originally Posted by MPLAHE

I am interested to hear how many of you handle communication with a coach on a call that is not in your area. I have had two of these recently, one on a purported backcourt violation and one on a goaltend. In each instance, I was handling my area and did not see the plays, yet the coaches were yelling to me about the situatuion.

In one instance, I handled it poorly by saying it was not my call (backcourt) - that clearly did not satisfy the coach. It came across as passing the buck, which the coach did not appreciate.

I don't beleive we want to get into explaining to the coach whose responsibility it is to make a particular call, i.e goaltending. But when they are screaming that you missed an obvious ( in his mind) goaltending call, (which I was rightfully not observing as the lead), what do you say to him?

just curious

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Sorry, Coach. This is my first game, I might have missed it.

Originally Posted by Dave Dow

:confused: Where were you on the court?? Center, trail, lead?? Were you too foucused in your area to glance at the shot? Your partners need help sometimes on the floor, going up the floor and tellling the coach" it was not in your area" ! You just hung your partners out to dry. Maybe this should have been talked about during pregame?? I hope it was talked about at the post game. And you should buy the first round