Starting this Thursday the NBA, will be mic'ing coaches in huddles during nationally televised games.

Phil Jackson when asked about it tonight before the Laker - Denver game was not to happy based upon what he said about it, but of course he didn't frown and kept smiling through the interview.

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I guess they like the Bill Laimbeer commentary during the WNBA games:).

Great, now all those Flip Twitches will be picked up by the mic and sound like a wind storm.

I can't wait to hear Sheed after he gets T'd up.

Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep
Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep

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Now we'll get more perspective on Flip and his coaching qualities.

Now we'll get more perspective on Flip and his coaching qualities.

Maybe we will hear him telling the assistants to shut the F up everytime they recommend giving the starters a blow or putting in AJ:)

NBA coaches to wear mikes during TV games; Saunders worried strategy will be aired

December 6, 2007
BY KRISTA JAHNKE
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER


NEW ORLEANS -- Pistons coach Flip Saunders might want to concentrate more on his patented non-verbal cues during nationally televised games from now on, because the NBA now can play his verbal outburst for the nation to hear.


The NBA announced Wednesday that coaches in ABC, ESPN and TNT games will have to wear a microphone on the sidelines during the game, as well as during in-game interviews during TV time-outs.
PISTONS CORNER: NBA coaches to wear mikes during TV games; Saunders worried strategy will be aired (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/SPORTS03/712060394/1051)

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I can't wait to hear Sheed after he gets T'd up.

Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep
Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep Bleep, Bleep, Bleep, Bleep

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We hear that stuff from him already.

Where have you been? :pound:

some of the comments i have read make this a bad policy too, your in the huddle and player A tells the coach that player B sucks tonight and get him off the court. Bad enough that this happens in the heat of the moment but now you will have a story for the media to try to make up after the game. I really don't think a mic on the coaches is needed, the league needs to stop trying to make things around the game more interesting and worry about things happening on the floor.

We hear that stuff from him already.

Where have you been? :pound:

But not in quadraphonic!!! LOL

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In KJ's article she says that they will also be mic'ing them in the locker rooms before and after the game and during half time.

I hope that there is no video to go with this.

I can just imagine mic'ing and video in the WNBA locker rooms.

Never happen.

This sounds like a sexist policy to me.

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If they mic the coaches, does that mean thay Sheed will wear a mic. After all, the plays are called by him............

If they mic the coaches, does that mean thay Sheed will wear a mic. After all, the plays are called by him............

Actually Flipper has volunteered to be Sheed's mic man; i.e., boom operator.

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"I wasn't at the league meeting with the coaches this year, and I'm very disappointed in my comrades for rolling over on this so easily," Lakers coach Phil Jackson told the Los Angeles Times.


"But I know that (commissioner) David Stern must have had a lot of input in it and must have been very adamant about our television partnership....

Do what you're told

Johnson told reporters the decision wasn't subject to a vote of the coaches.


"It's something they're trying to do to catch up with NASCAR and baseball," Johnson told the Dallas Morning News. "It's something that we didn't have a vote on. And it's something that David (Stern) thinks is a necessity. They'll try it, see how it works and tweak it."


Saunders said the coaches expressed grave concern over this issue during the league meetings.


"We talked about it, with YouTube and those kinds of things, they are going to have a lot of footage they can't use," Saunders said. "If something like that (a coach's rant or sensitive locker-room footage) ever comes out, that's when you are going to have an issue."


Skiles isn't happy about the microphone or having to grant interviews during games.


"The thing that concerns me the most and I voiced this opinion is we keep going further and further," Skiles told the Chicago Tribune.


"And to think there's going to be an endgame to it, you'd have to be a fool to believe that. What's next? Players all being miked? Go on and move into my house and put a camera in there?


"Where is the endgame? I understand it's important that the fans have access. I just personally don't happen to know any grassroots fans who are fans of this either."
This is just another of the many examples of the fact that the Networks run the NBA because they feed it the big bucks. So if the Networks want the Celtics in the Finals this year, Stern and his minions will do their darndest to try and make it happen, like they did the last two years with Miami and Cleveland.

Microphones an issue for Pistons (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071207/SPORTS0102/712070363/1127/SPORTS0102)

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I just heard a coach speak positively about the Mic situation.
I really don't understand their thinking behind this.

Makes me want to.........MizPee (http://www.mizpee.com/)

That is very dumb. Now coaches will have to make up some code for their plays even during timeouts. A timeout usually helps the team because they can sit down and talk instead of hearing a play from the sideline, but now teams might not want to talk the way they usually do during timeouts because strategies can be easily figured out.

Now we'll get more perspective on Flip and his coaching qualities.

Most professional fans will be sorely disappointed in what all the coaches say during the timeouts. Mostly will be (or should be) reinforcement of points discussed during the pre-game talk. If one where privy to the strategy sessions, it would be interesting how they approached particular topologies (offensively and defensively): As an analogy network position would involve:

Bus
Star
Ring
Mesh

I think the cameras on the wall in the locker room are going to lead to some interesting stuff that gets edited out. Talk about a set up waiting for a blackmailer to come along.

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Dunleavy OK with use of microphones

Clippers' coach says the NBA's new rule won't interfere with his job.
By Jonathan Abrams, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 10, 2007

Count Coach Mike Dunleavy as a proponent of the league's new rule to fit coaches with microphones during some nationally televised games.

"I can give you different kinds of reasons why you could be against it, if you wanted to be against it," Dunleavy said. "But none of them are going to be something that is going to keep me from being effective in doing my job."

Sign Up (http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-cliprep10dec10,1,6413258.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true)

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They should mice Sheed. We could hear some very interesting stuff:

He was angry later at call made by Leroy Richardson against McDyess.
"How was that a foul?" Wallace said. "(McGrady) hit McDyess. I told Leroy my son could fool him and it ain't even Halloween."

Pistons odd men out in loss to the Rockets (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071213/SPORTS0102/712130423/1127)
Imagine hearing it on TV.

The NBA guys are such idiots sometimes. If you're going to do this thing and mic folks for entertainment purposes to increase the ratings, then do it with somebody entertaining. Man don't nobody want to hear SHane Battier lame-bland-boring $%S. Mic Sheed for some real entertainment, hell get Gary Payton back in the league just to mic. I can remember wanting GP on the squad just to be able to hear him and Sheed on the court together for 82+ games......priceless.

Let's mic the owners!

Let's mic the owners!

It would a lot more fun to mic the media, when the don't think anyone is listening.

Or maybe you could pick a couple of dozen fans seated throughout the building and mic them. Now. That would definitely be interesting.

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Or maybe you could pick a couple of dozen fans seated throughout the building and mic them. Now. That would definitely be interesting.


"Wooo. Woooo. Oh yeah. Foul? This @#$% is rigged man. Let's get out of here and go watch college basketball."

"Wooo. Woooo. Oh yeah. Foul? This @#$% is rigged man. Let's get out of here and go watch college basketball."

Pretty entertaining stuff especially if you rooting for the visiting team.

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It would a lot more fun to mic the media, when the don't think anyone is listening.

Or maybe you could pick a couple of dozen fans seated throughout the building and mic them. Now. That would definitely be interesting.

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Best idea ever.