Grote 13,
That's a typical reponse by someone who only sees in "black and white" and can not apply common sense to dynamic situations.
It is YOUR kind that that causes frustration in coaches, players and umpires (the better ones that is, who are sick of seeing cavalier "tech happy" umpires) because you hide behind rules and absolutes, when basketball is such a dynamic environment that involves "shade of grey".
To you, anyone that is critical to a referee is immediately part of "the problem" - when learning from these situations, and ensuring they dont happen again would be more beneficial for all then "sweeping it under the carpet" and coming up with excuses.
But that's YOUR types style... raising a valid point is suddenly driving every potential referee away from the game - how is that perfect little bubble that you live in going?
Allow me to retort:
"It's not the referees fault that someone loses it - to what ever level they did."
No its not their fault, but you would think that an offical, that has any understanding of what is at stake and is confident in the call they made, would think that helping to "defuse" an emotional situation with a brief explanation (e.g "you didnt have position #15") would be a better idea than ignoring everyone else in the building and making the whole situation worse.
Instead, her response was to issue a technical on the player - which stopped the game for as much time as offering the player a quick response. If any one "lost it" as you put it, it was the umpire.
"I think if as you say teams prepare for 6 months the first thing a coach should be teaching them is to play to the whistle"
MEMO TO ALL COACHES; start to devise drills at training that involve game simulations that only stop at the sound of a whistle. This must be done before skill development, game tactics, conditioning etc. Do you realise how silly that sounds?
Of course coaches should make it clear to players to focus on what they can control (their own play) rather than what they cant (umpiring, crowd distractions). But does that immediately mean that all coaches and players that seek clarification on a call during an emotionally charged ending to an important game are suddenly incapable of "playing to the whistle"? Again, here is YOUR types' "your either with us or against us" style coming through that chooses to ignore that some situations will result in a different reponse than others (e.g. if this call happened in the first minute of the game there probably wouldnt have been the incedent that took place). And its this mentality that widens the gap between players/coaches and umpires.
"There are the right and wrong ways & times to approach a referee about a call..... wait till a quarter time break or even end of the game."
The situation occured within a couple of minutes of the end of a game - do you expect the team to wait until the game was lost and then politely ask the offical how they interpreted the call the way they did? Its comments like these that show your complete ignorance for the National Championships environment and that you are out of touch with the nature of basketball at any significant level.
"Perhaps in that little mind you don't want umpires at all, is that the perfect world - then no one will be ejected will you be happy with that?
YES....I would be happy if young players were not ejected at National Championships over siutations which were poorly handled and signicantly worsened by those older then them. But because I want this, according to YOUR types' way of thinking, it immediately meens I want a world with no umpires. What a stupid statement!
Grote 13 - you show yourself to be a small minded person who has no knowledge of the environment which they comment upon...probably because you dont have any ability to accept critical feedback.
