Stan Van Gundy hates instant replay: 'Can we just play this basketball game?'

To be a Van Gundy means you are to take a strong philosophical stance on the rules.

To this end, Detroit Pistons head coach and president of basketball operations Stan Van Gundy represents his family's name with relentless conviction.

Van Gundy may possess a loud voice, but his high-decibel musings often carry a poignant message. On Monday, the 56-year-old didn't mince his words on the subject of instant replay, expressing his distaste for the practice.

"If it were up to me, in all of sports, we’d get rid of all of it," he said prior to his team's matchup with the Brooklyn Nets.

"It’s infuriating watching the game and watching the last two minutes take 20 minutes and stuff," he added. "You know, going to the monitor four times in the last two minutes, it’s like, 'damn, can we just play this basketball game?'"

The NBA has seen an increase in its stoppages of game-play since opening its replay center in Secaucus, N.J., at the beginning of the 2014-15 season.

Prior to the 2015-16 campaign, the league released a list of calls that would be determined by the referees on-court and by the replay center, respectively.

All of these latest innovations, while well-intentioned, have irked Van Gundy, primarily due to their selective in-game application.

"I know the rationale is we want to get it right, but that’s only partially true anyway," he lamented. "Because we're not reviewing foul calls and non-foul calls, which are the most important calls. We don’t care about getting those right. So why are we going to worry about the rest of it? I don’t - I don’t get it. We’ve selected certain calls at certain times in the games that we want to get right. And for the other 46 minutes of the game, and for certain calls in the last two minutes, I guess we don’t care if we get it right."

While the long-time sideline stroller shone his spotlight of shame on the stagnating effects of the instant replay system, he also sympathized with the referees - a practice he seldom engages in.

"Officials are going to make mistakes just like we do," he said. "They always have and they always will, and it’s just part of the game. I don’t understand why we’re running to the monitor all the time. I really don’t."