Media members angry about Steph Curry bringing his daughter to press conference

I remember a poster here on a thread about basketball postgames arguing that reporters should not ask the tough questions of coaches.

 

Frustrated player is frustrated, yet doesn't curl up in fetal position for the rest of the game:

Q. You seemed to, a few times on the court, to be frustrated that maybe you weren’t getting a couple calls that you thought you should have gotten. Is that the way you felt?


STEPHEN CURRY: Yeah, everybody probably thinks there is a foul on every play. So you’re going to react a certain way, as long as it doesn’t distract from what you’re trying to do. There were a couple possessions where I thought it was pretty obvious, but they saw it differently. To have a reaction move on, that’s kind of how it goes. I don’t think the refs will determine win/loss in this series. It’s just a matter of how we play. You can have a reaction, but you have to stay focused on what you’re doing.

 

And if anyone has a good, enlightening question to ask ... does that fit into everyone's grand scheme anywhere?

Sorry, I forgot. Nobody's ever asked a good question in a presser. My bad.

 

I remember a poster here wondering why people unfriend him. <sob!>

 

I think you'd have a stronger point if Curry did this every press conference. People used to kill Dusty Baker for this, and no one seemed to have much of a problem with the criticism.

As I understand it, Curry's kid was acting up and his pregnant wife was at the end of her rope. I think people are pretty sympathetic to that.

 

Give us an example. What's a "good, enlightening" question?

And, more importantly, why would we expect it to result in anything more than a generic response?

 

Curry answered questions throughout the horrible incident.

Eliminate the asides when he's talking to his daughter, and I challenge anyone to discern which press conference is after which game.

 

I remember one time, local D-I basketball team hired a coach, who had been a longtime assistant for a prominent mid-major. Press conference covered, mainbar has everyone happy the coach came aboard, blah, blah.

Columnist wrote about the coach's wife, who was standing off to the side. She gave a very good interview, saying she had mixed emotions because on the one hand, it was a dream for them that they had when they were first starting out in an efficiency apartment with ramen noodles each night. But she was also concerned because they were moving away from family and friends, her kids were going to have to adjust to a new area, and there was a whole bunch of logistics that she was going to have to handle, because her husband was going out on the road recruiting.

It was a really good column that went beyond the typical "New coach is here, and he has to win right now!"

 

And then someone interviewed Malzahn's wife ...

 

They shouldn't be bringing kids to the funeral. It's a distraction to your job.

 

That columnist got that from a one-on-one interview, right? Would the wife have been as forthcoming in a press conference setting?

 

She was standing off to the side at the press conference. Maybe she sat up there for a bit, I don't remember. But while there were others asking questions, the columnist went over to her.