Perhaps , but the basic idea that she would be incapable of garnering respect from NBA players simply because she ' s a woman as is implied by the word unsuitable seems fallacious to me . We ' ve already got examples of NBAcaliber players e . g . Jonathon Simmons , who first broke out in summer league under Becky ' s coaching who immediately respected her and accepted her and allowed her to take the lead as they would any other coach . I think , frankly , rejecting a coach based on their gender alone would be a minority position for players in today ' s NBA . Not to say that wouldn ' t have been more prevalent in the past , but today I think a player is much less likely to suggest that someone is inherently unqualified based on nothing more than their physical characteristics .