Quick Huddles?

[devdog69]

Originally posted by mick


Sparky,
I had a coach just screamin' at me the other night on a no-call. It was during a dead ball. He was outa the box about mid-court.
I walked over to his coaching box and stood on the floor with my hands behind my back, and my head humbly bowed, while he carved me a new orifice. He wasn't swearing, just talking loudly. (When I walked to the spot in front of his box, he, of course, followed cuz he wasn't quite done with me.)
I listened.
I left.
At halftime during warm-ups, he still wanted to talk about it. We had some time so I explained; my partner said he, too, had nothing. He became calm.
End of the game,he again said he was sorry for getting over-excited.
The point, I think, is to allow the coach to love the game as much as we do. If we bring confidence to the floor, then I think most of the emotion is unimportant.
mick

Well said, Mick. Have fun, try not to take things personally, work hard and things will fall into place nicely, most of the time. I had a coach upset over a call a week or so ago. His girl, playing defense on a shooter, jumped, banged her arm down slapping the shooter in the face. Of course, when I blow the whistle she's standing with her arms straight up and the "what'd I do" look. He's all over me on the way to the table, saying she was straight up, blah, blah, blah. I report the foul, he's still ranting and raving, so I walk over stand quietly in front of the bench, til he quits howling. I had already explained the call briefly to him so I wasn't going to address that again. When he quieted down I asked "are we done" in a very calm voice, he said "yyeeess" like a whiny ten year old, and I went to my trail position for the free throws. Don't know if this approach is recommended but it worked very well for me in this situation. I know if I had went across and heard him yapping non-stop where everybody in the gym could hear, it would have tripped my trigger and I would have ended up whacking him, so I handled it this way.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally posted by devdog69
I report the foul, he's still ranting and raving, so I walk over stand quietly in front of the bench, til he quits howling.

"...til he quits howling." You got the terminology just right.

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by mick


Sparky,
I had a coach just screamin' at me the other night on a no-call. It was during a dead ball. He was outa the box about mid-court.
I walked over to his coaching box and stood on the floor with my hands behind my back, and my head humbly bowed, while he carved me a new orifice. He wasn't swearing, just talking loudly. (When I walked to the spot in front of his box, he, of course, followed cuz he wasn't quite done with me.)
I listened.
I left.
At halftime during warm-ups, he still wanted to talk about it. We had some time so I explained; my partner said he, too, had nothing. He became calm.
End of the game,he again said he was sorry for getting over-excited.
The point, I think, is to allow the coach to love the game as much as we do. If we bring confidence to the floor, then I think most of the emotion is unimportant.
mick

Well, ya done good I guess. But confidence & love of the
game is sorta besides the point, and I for one do not have
a problem discussing any call or non-call with any coach.
Unfortunately there are the very few coaches out there that
will take it too far, IMO, like saying "Don't put your
hands on me!" when you calmly try to herd them off the
floor. There's just no good response to "Don't put your
hands on me!", is there? Smile? Walk away? Whack him? Smack
him? Whatever you do you've lost the battle. So I intend
to never put myself in such a defensive position again,
which means I won't be putting my hands on a coach
again, which means I need to be very unsubtle and very
untactful, which means I'm gonna tell him to get off the
floor if he wants to talk to me. Your "willow bending in
the wind" aproach appeals to me, but I'm afraid it's just
too subtle to work with the "Don't put your hands on me!"
crowd.