RealGM

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:26 pm**

Someone like a WNBA player or something, could she?

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:27 pm**

I don't think the players would respect her. So while a woman could definitely coach a team I don't think she would be effective.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:32 pm**

lmao, Another Isiah except in woman form.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:33 pm**

Albanian Damien wrote:I don't think the players would respect her. So while a woman could definitely coach a team I don't think she would be effective.

Bingo

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:33 pm**

I think there can be... But it has to be a woman with such dominating character that her mere presence demand respect, because just like Bogut would tell you, the NBA is full of egos.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:34 pm**

Maybe a team full of softies like Toronto.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:36 pm**

What if Kobe had to listen to a woman coach? lmao

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:37 pm**

pat summit

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:40 pm**

I doubt it. Not that one couldn't be as capable. I see the NBA moving more towards coaches with NBA player experience, which rules out a woman.

Also, let's first see a woman coach establish herself in the college ranks before even wondering if one could even make a member of an NBA staff.

Are there even any women trainers? or team doctors? (I don't know, I'm just asking.)

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:40 pm**

if Pat summit was a team's coach and the players didn't respect her, then I hope every player on that team gets Bobby Phills'd.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:41 pm**

I don't think a GM would give her a chance

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:58 pm**

No because she has no experience in the NBA.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:59 pm**

Albanian Damien wrote:I don't think the players would respect her.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:00 pm**

Half of NBA Coaching is ego management. Hiring a woman kind of throws any possibility out the window.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:07 pm**

I know the Utah Utes Womens Basketball coach Elaine Elliot, she is far and away the smartest basketball mind I have ever known. She has been in just as many games both playing and coaching as most men coaches, I see no reason why she couldn't translate her success from the womens game to the mens.

But like everyone has said, it's a respect issue first.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:12 pm**

Texas Longhorns wrote:What if Kobe had to listen to a woman coach? lmao

Yeah what's so funny? Kobe listens to Phil alot better than most other players listen to their coaches.

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:13 pm**

Hasn't this already happened?

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:17 pm**

like others have said, the respect factor would be a big key..

I would be concerned for her safety if she took Phil Jackson's job though..

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:17 pm**

HarlemHeat37 wrote:like others have said, the respect factor would be a big key..

I would be concerned for her safety if she took Phil Jackson's job though..

Rape?

Posted: **Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:34 pm**

Male coaches seem to work fine for teams of women, why not the reverse?

RealGM

Could a woman (with bball exp) coach an NBA team?

Could a woman (with bball exp) coach an NBA team?