NWAhoops.com Presents "YOU MAKE THE CALL"

[Hawks Coach]

Originally posted by cmathews
HawksCoach, and all coaches for that matter: I am one of the guys that doesn't mind listening to you, even discussing things that need to be addressed, in your opinion or mine. With that said, when a coach or player says something to the effect of can you watch #xx they are holding or setting illegal screens, my response is usually something to this effect. "I will keep an eye out, if I see it I will get it, but I can't look just for them/that call." Don't get me wrong I don't mind the "feedback" but by the same token I don't think that you want us to concentrate on the call you think we are missing and be missing others in the process. Just a little insight from this side..

I don't expect you to look for one thing to the exclusion of everything else going on in the game. And I rarely feel that much needs to be brought to an official's attention. But if there is a consistent problem from my perspective, I will raise it. I believe that is one of my responsibilities to my players with respect to officials. The other responsibility is to seek clarification when I don't know why something was called (and I really mean to get clarification, not to argue).

Other than that, coaches need to take care of what their team is doing, not what the team in stripes is doing.