First Female Officials, Now Spurs Hire First Female NBA Coach - Thoughts?

HacheMan · Aug 5, 2014

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The San Antonio Spurs Hired 16-Year WNBA Veteran Becky Hammon On Tuesday, Making Her The First Full-Time, Paid Female Assistant On An NBA Coaching Staff.

What's your opinion guys?

I personally think it's ridiculous.

There is absolutely nothing beneficial this girl can tell or teach an NBA player...

scottcarter · Aug 5, 2014

people will call you sexist I am sure but I agree with you.

Mr_Mark · Aug 5, 2014

well.... there goes the Spurs season

CoachCB · Aug 5, 2014

Terrible. Same goes for female reporters covering men's sports. Especially sports they've never played (i.e. football).

And it's not sexist...it's a fact!

PatsFan1283 · Aug 5, 2014

You don't need to play in the NBA to be qualified to work for an NBA team. She has been around the game her whole life.....Unless you've been following her coaching career or heard her talk bball, not sure how you know what her acumen is.

Every team has an analytics staff in every sport now, should they fire them all too?

scottcarter · Aug 5, 2014

next they will want to vote

Betallsports · Aug 5, 2014

Could be worst, MikeB could be a Mod ^<<^

joebatters · Aug 5, 2014

I've never seen her. Does she actually look like a woman?

CoachCB · Aug 5, 2014

PatsFan1283 said:
You don't need to play in the NBA to be qualified to work for an NBA team. She has been around the game her whole life.....Unless you've been following her coaching career or heard her talk bball, not sure how you know what her acumen is.

Every team has an analytics staff in every sport now, should they fire them all too?

Yep!

PatsFan1283 · Aug 5, 2014

joebatters said:
I've never seen her. Does she actually look like a woman?

yeah shes like a 5'6 white girl

its possible they just want someone on the road to run train after the games but pretty sure you don't need to play in the NBA to offer analysis about the game. Gregg Popovich could tell you that.

Betallsports · Aug 5, 2014

joebatters said:
I've never seen her. Does she actually look like a woman?

HacheMan · Aug 5, 2014

scottcarter said:
people will call you sexist I am sure but I agree with you.

Yeah I understand what ya mean Scott.
And there are plenty of things women are better at than men under certain circumstances, but not this.

CoachCB said:
Terrible. Same goes for female reporters covering men's sports. Especially sports they've never played (i.e. football).

And it's not sexist...it's a fact!

Pretty much this.

PatsFan1283 said:
You don't need to play in the NBA to be qualified to work for an NBA team. She has been around the game her whole life.....Unless you've been following her coaching career or heard her talk bball, not sure how you know what her acumen is.

Every team has an analytics staff in every sport now, should they fire them all too?

There will never...ever...be a female who can tell a professional male athlete how to do his job...period

It's the equivalent of a fast-food McDonald's employee trying to tell a 5-Star Chef how to do his job.

Or a putt-putt golf player trying to tell Tiger Woods what club to use...

joebatters · Aug 5, 2014

Betallsports said:

Damn...she looks pretty good!

akphidelt · Aug 5, 2014

Hache Man said:
What's your opinion guys?

I personally think it's ridiculous.

There is absolutely nothing beneficial this girl can tell or teach an NBA player...

Agreed. Think the same thing.

PatsFan1283 · Aug 5, 2014

Hache Man said:
Yeah I understand what ya mean Scott.
And there are plenty of things women are better at than men under certain circumstances, but not this.

Pretty much this.

There will never...ever...be a female who can tell a professional male athlete how to do his job...period

It's the equivalent of a fast-food McDonald's employee trying to tell a 5-Star Chef how to do his job.

Or a putt-putt golf player trying to tell Tiger Woods what club to use...

Tons of women already work around the periphery of pro sports whether it be sports psychologists, nutritionists, personal trainers, etc...

You do realize she would school many NBA coaches in bball right? I have no clue about her coaching and I don't think a woman could be a HC besides the movie "Eddie" but lol @ thinking she can't be 1 of 5 assistants on the bench.

I guess we can just rely on logical fallacies and assume you know more than Gregg Popovich though, that works too...

CoachCB · Aug 5, 2014

PatsFan1283 said:
Tons of women already work around the periphery of pro sports whether it be sports psychologists, nutritionists, personal trainers, etc...

You do realize she would school many NBA coaches in bball right? I have no clue about her coaching and I don't think a woman could be a HC besides the movie "Eddie" but lol @ thinking she can't be 1 of 5 assistants on the bench.

I guess we can just rely on logical fallacies and assume you know more than Gregg Popovich though, that works too...

Or she could go coach a woman's team.....

PatsFan1283 · Aug 5, 2014

lol tough crowd.....like you gotta have a dick to understand pick and roll defense, a lot of NBA coaches play like D3 at best.

not like she has access to the bomb, that would be another issue

Betallsports · Aug 5, 2014

so the Cheerleaders should be Men ???

Betallsports · Aug 5, 2014

Betallsports said:
so the Cheerleaders should be Men ???

I don't have a problem with her being an asst. coach. They have guys coaching the WNBA

JakeT. · Aug 5, 2014

She's accomplished a million times more in her playing career than Gregg Popovich ever did. Why do so many of you guys think you need to be a great player to be a great coach?