{"id":13463,"date":"2015-11-04T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13463"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T09:00:06","slug":"we-said-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/04\/we-said-what\/","title":{"rendered":"We said what!?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One morning when coaching in Sweden I had the experience of looking at my Facebook feed and noticing a piece from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oresundliga\/\">Oresundliga page<\/a>. It related to that night&#8217;s match between my team (Svedala) and the Danish side Amager. Said page linked to a<a href=\"http:\/\/svedala.lokaltidningen.se\/svedala-volley-laddar-infor-danskt-mote-\/20151103\/artikler\/712317824\/1370\"> Swedish newspaper story<\/a> about the match. The reporter suggested we were expecting a 3-0 or 3-1 win. Supposedly, this came from our team manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cue inward groan. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I messaged said manager upon seeing the story and said, &#8220;<span class=\"_5yl5\" data-reactid=\".q1.1.$mg=26067244103024565248.2.$6067244103024565248.0.0.0.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".q1.1.$mg=26067244103024565248.2.$6067244103024565248.0.0.0.0.0.0\">Did you really tell a reporter that we&#8217;d win 3-0 or 3-1 tomorrow?<\/span><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His response was that he never said such a thing. He told her that we beat Amager 2-1 in preseason and that we had thus far won our home matches 3-0. As it turns out, the conversation took place on a Thursday before our most recent Saturday home match. That match ended 3-1. He said, however, the reporter in question sounded like a fill-in who didn&#8217;t really know anything about volleyball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Request to reporters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporters, don&#8217;t make sh_t up. If you give the other team &#8220;locker room material&#8221; like that when we never said any such thing, we stop talking to you. I realize volleyball is not a high profile sport. Still, we deserve the respect of fair reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Postscript to the story: We lost the match 0-3 as documented <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/coaching-log-nov-9-2015\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I coached in Sweden a reporter once gave our opposition some locker room material by suggesting that we expected to win our match 3-0 or 3-1. Ugh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[198,264,277],"class_list":["post-13463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-volleyball-stories","tag-media","tag-press","tag-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}