If you want to know if NBA officiating will get any better, look at the @nbagleague officiating. 100% of our new officials come through there. We don’t invest 1/10 of what we should to train and develop our GLeague refs .
We have our former big name officials spending most of their time working with current NBA refs, and minimal time with GLeauge refs. It should be the exact opposite. Does anyone think refs with 20 years + experience are going to take advice from their former peers ?
And of course there is just as much turnover in those positions, mostly driven by politics , as there has been with the head of officiating spots.
As I’ve been saying since 2000 and my days working at @DairyQueen , the issue usually isn’t the officials themselves, it’s management and how they recruit, hire, train, let officials who can’t make the playoffs after 10, 15 years stay on staff for lack of replacements and more
My hope is that the new regime of nba management will improve all of this. They certainly have said they would, but there really haven’t been demonstrable examples they have shown us.
IMO, one of the core problems of the group is the belief that only former officials know how to train current officials and identify and develop new talent. I couldn’t disagree more.
You don’t have to be a former nba player to coach or do player development. There is a long list of professions where the best training and management comes from those whose core competency is training and managing people. Officiating is no different. #endofrant
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