If the basketball court is a stage, one of its star performers is often the head coach, arms waving, face red, mouth open wide as he shouts over the din of the crowd. Some of that emotion is directed at officials, who say the antics from the coach’s box have become worse: in a memo last year, John W. Adams, the national coordinator of men’s basketball officiating for the N.C.A.A., encouraged officials to crack down on offenders. But the coaches are usually trying to get the attention of their players. Jay Bilas, a college basketball analyst for ESPN who played at Duke under Mike Krzyzewski, says that while Coach K might have been withering, he was constructive: “He’d say, ‘That was a bad bleeping shot,’ and, ‘Let’s do it right the next time!’ ” And did Bilas ever shout back? “Never,” he says. “What would I possibly yell back?”
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