Stu Jackson
Stu Jackson
Stuart Wayne "Stu" Jacksonis an American former head coach and the former Executive Vice President in the National Basketball Association. He has coached two different NBA teams: the New York Knicks in 1990 and 1991, and the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1997 and served as the Grizzlies' general manager. Currently, Jackson serves as the Associate Commissioner for the Big East...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 December 1955
CountryUnited States of America
clock focal game point turn
The 3Â has become a real focal point of offenses, and we would like to turn the clock back and see what the game is like without it,
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Last year certainly there was a great deal of emphasis on the forearm check, just as there is this year. But that has stayed about the same this year.
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I think it had come to a point where there were several viable candidates and it was just time to do it,
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It brings to light the danger when a player enters the spectator stands. At that point, we lose control of the situation and anything could have happened.
initial players
My sense was players resonated with the idea after their initial skepticism.
decided happy missed
I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
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Year in and year out, Dick is always one of our top-rated officials. A big factor in his ratings is his accuracy, his overall experience, his ability to manage a game and communicate with players and coaches, all of which have made him one of the top-rated officials.
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We have made it plain to our players and our fans that players may not enter the spectator stands, no matter the provocation, and that violations of this policy will be treated with the utmost seriousness.
considered foul
When the foul is to the head, it's considered much more serious.
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We are saying you can't go in the stands under any circumstances. But we recognize in this case Antonio, when he looked up into the crowd, felt his family needed some assistance. And we did take that into consideration, as we do circumstances around every incident we review.
aware clean further violation
We're not going to suspend him immediately. We will make him aware of the violation and tell him to clean up his act. If he doesn't, we'll take further action.
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This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.
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We felt since neither team played (Thursday), we had some extra time to review the situation. There is no black mark for Ray. It is one incident and you move on and hope it doesn't happen again. We had not received anything on our desk from either player before, so we wanted to make sure we talked to everybody.
barrier breaking court decide issue
At the end of the day, what we had to decide on was the issue of Antonio breaking the barrier from the court into the stands.