Last Dance by John Feinstein

[canuckrefguy]

Originally Posted by Jimgolf

John Feinstein spends an inordinate amount of time in his books talking about bad calls by officials. At least in this one he digs a little deeper and finds out the whole story, instead of just taking a coach's word for what happened.

I don't really see that....I've read a lot of his books, and to suggest he has it in for officials isn't really fair IMO.

"Season on the Brink" is about Bob Knight - basketball's version of John McEnroe - so OF COURSE there's going to be negative ref-talk. I believe the ref he specifically mentioned was Tom Rucker.

[Jimgolf]

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

I don't really see that....I've read a lot of his books, and to suggest he has it in for officials isn't really fair IMO.

I didn't mean to say that he has it in for officials. The basketball books I've read by him seems to have coaches complaining about officials (what else is new), but little in the way of rebuttal. From a writer that seems to carefully research everything, this didn't seem balanced.

I haven't read "The Last Amateurs" yet; I was refering to "A Season on the Brink" (he seems to blame the officiating for the Pan Am games incident) and "A March to Madness". I seem to recall a chapter on the quality of ACC officiating having gone down since the NBA raided their staff when the NBA went to 3-man.

Maybe this is just something that stuck out in my mind. Or a senior moment.