All I said was it was the same thing their coach said. I'm fully aware that Boozer sucks on defense. I'm also fully aware that he is is a way better player than Jeffersuck or Millsap.
And I, for one, am not buying that. A player with no desire to play defense and without the ability to contribute to the wins with effort and defensive performance even ifif the offense is not clicking in any given night cannot be considered a star player in my opinion. If you cannot play either side of the floor at a respected level, then you do not deserve to be called the leader of the team or whatsoever. And, this is a "Jazz" fans forum and Boozer is gone. Good luck to Carlos and his "guys" in Chicago, we are done with him, I'm tired of reading and commenting in threads about debacles about Boozer. I think, Jazzfanz needs to get over this "who's better, what if" debates and theories, obsessions. You will not become the new president if you convince all of the posters here that Carlos is a great person, great athlete and professional.
Back to the main argument; Thibbs, as a rookie coach, made a rookie mistake by trying to make fabricated explanations. He did not have to defend or justify his decision to reporters. Sloan is an outspoken person and he can admit his mistakes, and he probably did wrong that time. I do not remember that game vividly. I'm not sold on the explanation of Thibbs. I, actually, cannot criticise coach because he and Sloan are in different classes for now and there's a big difference between Sloan expicitly offering his critics about a player than Thibbs' doing so. He needs Carlos to succeed and his any aggressive or strong comment, action will certainly not help him get enough support from staff or management. But, I watched that game (my man Omer is playing for Bulls), saw what I needed to. Bruce Bowen saw it, too. So, you can continue to believe that coach Tom was sincere in his comment, explanation and you can relate it to coach Sloan's comments but it is not true. You can find hundreds of "it was about matchups, we had to go small to match their quickness" blah blah...
