An officiating study I would like to see.

[GUNTERSVOL]

The wife has had a building question about the amount of time and the proximity of refs listening to and interacting to head coaches, both live ball and dead ball. I am sure my ORANGE filter makes me a bad candidate, but it would be good data for “impartial” eyes to put together.

Really hate it when they actually respond during live ball situations when they should only have 1 focus. To many shots of refs taking the whistle out and speaking out of the corner of their mouth. Optics are horrible. Number of both categories for each team would be interesting.

Maybe the refs by rule should have to give coaches an option of a T or a TO when approached live ball. Maybe OK when seated.

I would also like for Barnes to head down court and join every conversation when the other coach is on the playing court, not in the box. Love to see them try to T up a coach for being further outside THEIR box.

 

[VolGee4]

The wife has had a building question about the amount of time and the proximity of refs listening to and interacting to head coaches, both live ball and dead ball. I am sure my ORANGE filter makes me a bad candidate, but it would be good data for “impartial” eyes to put together.

Really hate it when they actually respond during live ball situations when they should only have 1 focus. To many shots of refs taking the whistle out and speaking out of the corner of their mouth. Optics are horrible. Number of both categories for each team would be interesting.

Maybe the refs by rule should have to give coaches an option of a T or a TO when approached live ball. Maybe OK when seated.

I would also like for Barnes to head down court and join every conversation when the other coach is on the playing court, not in the box. Love to see them try to T up a coach for being further outside THEIR box.

I assume coaches appreciate the officials who give some feedback. I have read articles where anonymous coaches talk about certain officials, and there were comments about the nice ones admitting a mistake or not seeing the play.

That said, I have been an official and a coach. I officiated low level basketball as a teenager but started by doing games with my Dad, who had the experience. I was taught to ignore most conversations unless the coach had a legitimate question, especially during timeouts. As a competitive coach, the heat of battle brings out comments and disagreements. As long as the comments aren't abusive, threatening or involve profanity, it's just like the real time comments in the game thread. Good officials will ignore and understand. I also think there is way too much dialogue sometimes. There was an instance in a UK game recently where Pope was mad but decided to walk away toward the end of his bench. I believe it was Terry Oglesby, who started to follow him and stare him down. That's not what an official should do. There are too many rabbit ears and egos these days. JMO.

 

[OrangeInKy]

The wife has had a building question about the amount of time and the proximity of refs listening to and interacting to head coaches, both live ball and dead ball. I am sure my ORANGE filter makes me a bad candidate, but it would be good data for “impartial” eyes to put together.

Really hate it when they actually respond during live ball situations when they should only have 1 focus. To many shots of refs taking the whistle out and speaking out of the corner of their mouth. Optics are horrible. Number of both categories for each team would be interesting.

Maybe the refs by rule should have to give coaches an option of a T or a TO when approached live ball. Maybe OK when seated.

I would also like for Barnes to head down court and join every conversation when the other coach is on the playing court, not in the box. Love to see them try to T up a coach for being further outside THEIR box.

Can’t recall the game, but was watching a game last week where the ref was talking to the point guard as he was coming up the court and the player turns to respond and the pass intended for him goes right past him as he didn’t see it. Maybe he shouldn’t have turned to respond to ref, but ref shouldn’t be talking to them during live ball situation like that, imo.