Those mean, mean officials!

[TheOracle]

Originally Posted by RookieDude

JMO...but, if an official looks strong and confident on the court...it can alleviate some of the coaches whining and complaining...not always, but generally.

Only with a weak coach.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by TheOracle

Only with a weak coach.

Or just a smart one, who realizes he's not going to be able to manipulate the officials so he focusses on more reasonable endeavors.

[TheOracle]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Or just a smart one, who realizes he's not going to be able to manipulate the officials so he focusses on more reasonable endeavors.

Yep, you're correct. However, strong and confident quickly becomes "unapproachable and arrogant" should the film show poor judgment. That precipitates a lot of bad situations.

[RookieDude]

Originally Posted by TheOracle

Yep, you're correct. However, strong and confident quickly becomes "unapproachable and arrogant" should the film show poor judgment. That precipitates a lot of bad situations.

So which is it...a weak coach (as you said) or a smart coach (as snaqs said) and you agreed?

...and how did strong and confident get to unapproachable and arrogant?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by RookieDude

...and how did strong and confident get to unapproachable and arrogant?

There's a fine line between them.

On the other end, there's also a fine line between "relaxed and confident" and "bored / uncaring / acts like he doesn't want to be here."

[TheOracle]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

There's a fine line between them.

On the other end, there's also a fine line between "relaxed and confident" and "bored / uncaring / acts like he doesn't want to be here."

If that guy could read instead of playing the word parsing game, he'd understand. Overconfident officials with big personalities that do not have judgment commensurate with they way they try and project get slaughtered, and most of the time they are very unaware of it. It's called narcissism or megalomania. Walter Mitty Syndrome.