Which quite literally does not matter. Like, at all. Players get moved without public knowledge all the time. This is the expectation, in order to not throw the team who drafted you under the bus.
This is simply an invalid excuse for any human
I don't read your posts all the time-- but I know you're German, so I just put 1 and 1 together. It was the only explanation (to me) as to how you can excuse him of his antics as just "well he's JUST an NBA player u guys!"
Quotes appear in multiple sources, and it's easy to find them in context-- I'll spare you the time: I translated entire articles from German during the 2013 draft (I actually wanted us to draft Dennis with 14, but only because I thought Burke would be out of our reach) and the context was there. He's immature. Plain and simple.
We saw this again when he blamed his team's loss on his coach's "stupid idea" to foul when up 3 (very common) even though he missed a free-throw that would ice the game-- ROFLMAO. Classic Dennis.
"These players"? Name one player on the Jazz with Schröder's attitude problem.
So you are giving teams a free pass to be not loyal to their employees? But players should be loyal to their employer at all times? Sorry, man world doesn't work like this. Not in the last 10 million years, probably not going to change in the next 10 minutes.
And what you say excuse, I call an explanation. And as I previously said one that I don't necessarily agree upon.
So that's racial/nationalistic profiling that you exert upon me when expecting I'm going to be a homer of a German player no matter what.
Also would you say headstrong egoistic behaviors is an anomaly with athletes in the National Basketball Association? Or their executives even?
I mock drafted Rudy at 14 here. After his first year I thought: Dam son, I thought he'd be better with a relatively healthy rookie season(There was that toenail situation at the start of that season)
After that my expectations were lowered to a point where I thought Rudy's ceiling was to be a rim protection specialist on backup units.
Then he destroys Spain in the World Cup and last season happened.
I also think as a player on the court Dennis is pretty good. Because he's got elite attributes in the areas of spatial awareness and speed. And those specific ones aren't easy to stop w/o opening up other opportunities. I also think he has a legit chance to have a better career than Rondo based on longevity and retrospect criticism of Rondo, that he was only good with all the hall of famers around him and ppl not being enough aware of "advanced statistics" back then.
I've heard rumours what happened after that specific game with the coach being upset at Dennis for not hitting free throws (When Dennis was clearly the main reason Germany was in a position to win)
A coach should know what personalities their players have. And not saying the coach can't have one himself. But he's gotta live with the results of his decisions. If he decides to go after a player that has 29 points, 6/7 free throws and 10 points in the 4th quarter and that guy has an attitude, then he should know there's gonna be microphones in front of that guy minutes later. Maybe it was even calculated to get that public discussion and to let Dennis experience the public reaction on that controversy. Who knows? I'm not gonna judge a 22 year old for that.
BOth Burke and Burks show their attitude on the court from my perspective. OH and then there was this Kanter guy. Remember him?
He btw did everyhing right and his agent got him a monster contract(Tristan's gotta be jealous that Rich Paul couldn't get him a similar result)
