Guys, people who are late are usually chronically late. Sure, maybe they’re only late a few minutes. But they’re probably late every day.
Who knows whether JJ fits into this. Maybe he’s a few minutes late every day and they’ve talked to him about it multiple times, and this was finally the time to show him you’re not bluffing about requiring him to be on time. Who knows?
But we all know those people who are 5-10 minutes late to work every single day. Even if they’re otherwise good workers, those people are absolutely looked down on by their coworkers. And if you don’t think so, you either work in a unique setting or you *are* the chronically late person.
The problem here is a bunch of people are projecting their own issues with time management onto the situation.
There are ways to discipline the player without fining them.
We don't know what's going on in the locker room right now and whether or not this behavior was tolerated before.
Point of the matter is, it's too late in Nagys tenure to lay down the law now if he was not as strict prior. The players will feel like it's an act of a coach who knows he's going to be fired and is desperately trying to save his job. And that will just feed into the team quitting on him.
If he was going to change things up and be stricter, hopefully this wasn't the way the team found out. Hopefully he was smart enough to address them first and let them know these sort of things would be coming because at least then it gives them the heads up and he won't lose the team.
But just the vibe of the whole thing doesn't make me think that's how it went down.
Y'all are focused on the fact that he was late by a minute. What I'm talking about is the dynamic of how nagy handles players.
Doesn't matter how much you want to lecture everyone about being punctual. If this is how the players find out that he suddenly changing things on them this is going to sow discontent in the locker room.