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Can't believe I'm going to say this, but after seeing the game up close tonight I may have to rethink my opinion of coach Q and his ability to mentor these young players. With a twenty point lead and barley 3 minutes left he makes it a point to embarrass Exum for being late on a rotation on a three by Maker. Makes a real show of waving Hill up off the bench and looks at Dante with palpable disgust as he walks off the court looking like a little league player pulled in the middle of an inning for dropping a fly ball. If this was how Kanter felt here perhaps I owe him an apology. It would have been appropriate to call him aside during a break and explain what he did wrong but this was an obvious attempt to belittle him as I see it. Trade him and give the kid a chance to be something if this is how it's going to be.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
Can't believe I'm going to say this, but after seeing the game up close tonight I may have to rethink my opinion of coach Q and his ability to mentor these young players. With a twenty point lead and barley 3 minutes left he makes it a point to embarrass Exum for being late on a rotation on a three by Maker. Makes a real show of waving Hill up off the bench and looks at Dante with palpable disgust as he walks off the court looking like a little league player pulled in the middle of an inning for dropping a fly ball. If this was how Kanter felt here perhaps I owe him an apology. It would have been appropriate to call him aside during a break and explain what he did wrong but this was an obvious attempt to belittle him as I see it. Trade him and give the kid a chance to be something if this is how it's going to be.
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Damn, you must've hated Sloan.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
Can't believe I'm going to say this, but after seeing the game up close tonight I may have to rethink my opinion of coach Q and his ability to mentor these young players. With a twenty point lead and barley 3 minutes left he makes it a point to embarrass Exum for being late on a rotation on a three by Maker. Makes a real show of waving Hill up off the bench and looks at Dante with palpable disgust as he walks off the court looking like a little league player pulled in the middle of an inning for dropping a fly ball. If this was how Kanter felt here perhaps I owe him an apology. It would have been appropriate to call him aside during a break and explain what he did wrong but this was an obvious attempt to belittle him as I see it. Trade him and give the kid a chance to be something if this is how it's going to be.
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Maybe they've done enough of those peaceful learning breaks.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
Can't believe I'm going to say this, but after seeing the game up close tonight I may have to rethink my opinion of coach Q and his ability to mentor these young players. With a twenty point lead and barley 3 minutes left he makes it a point to embarrass Exum for being late on a rotation on a three by Maker. Makes a real show of waving Hill up off the bench and looks at Dante with palpable disgust as he walks off the court looking like a little league player pulled in the middle of an inning for dropping a fly ball. If this was how Kanter felt here perhaps I owe him an apology. It would have been appropriate to call him aside during a break and explain what he did wrong but this was an obvious attempt to belittle him as I see it. Trade him and give the kid a chance to be something if this is how it's going to be.
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Considering he's been a professional athlete for 2 and a half years listening to the coach, you'd think he would know what to do, especially since it was the exact same play that had been run previously and he played it worse the the play before. You don't do what you're supposed to do as a professional athlete and you sit on the bench. No issue with that at all.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
Can't believe I'm going to say this, but after seeing the game up close tonight I may have to rethink my opinion of coach Q and his ability to mentor these young players. With a twenty point lead and barley 3 minutes left he makes it a point to embarrass Exum for being late on a rotation on a three by Maker. Makes a real show of waving Hill up off the bench and looks at Dante with palpable disgust as he walks off the court looking like a little league player pulled in the middle of an inning for dropping a fly ball. If this was how Kanter felt here perhaps I owe him an apology. It would have been appropriate to call him aside during a break and explain what he did wrong but this was an obvious attempt to belittle him as I see it. Trade him and give the kid a chance to be something if this is how it's going to be.
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Hmmm... I wonder if Quin is souring on Dante? And is Dante souring on Quin? We don't see all of the behind the scenes but I wonder if Dante is feeling down and Quin has lost patience with him. Then you have a compounding effect. Dante does seem like Quin's whipping boy.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Considering he's been a professional athlete for 2 and a half years listening to the coach, you'd think he would know what to do, especially since it was the exact same play that had been run previously and he played it worse the the play before. You don't do what you're supposed to do as a professional athlete and you sit on the bench. No issue with that at all.
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I viewed this play the other way around. Rudy was too lazy to get out on his man. Now Exum should have figured out Rudy wasn't going to come and just switched. On Maker's first three, I thought Dante's challenge was pretty good.
 
str8line said:
Hmmm... I wonder if Quin is souring on Dante? And is Dante souring on Quin? We don't see all of the behind the scenes but I wonder if Dante is feeling down and Quin has lost patience with him. Then you have a compounding effect. Dante does seem like Quin's whipping boy.
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I think pissing post would be more accurate.

And yes, he is a pro, but he is still a kid. There were several other breakdowns tonight but none of the others drew the same response as Exum did.
 
Daedalus said:
No, more an innocent remark. The guy who pointed out 22 points in 9 attempts made a better point than weakly calling me a retard. The attitude, the layout, the absence of everyone I (sort of) respected over ten years ago is what makes me not like this site.
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I don't think you can expect not to be hassled a little when you point to one of our best players and ask why he gets to be the star. Invoking the R word was obviously in bad form but the way he put it out there, it was obviously tongue in cheek. This is a great forum otherwise you'd be getting the cold shoulder instead of discussion. Maybe try not coming on quite so strong next time and you'll see what I mean.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
I think pissing post would be more accurate.

And yes, he is a pro, but he is still a kid. There were several other breakdowns tonight but none of the others drew the same response as Exum did.
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Something has happened, it's just weird. It's gone from "he's such a great kid" etc to completely whipping boy status. No problem with holding someone accountable, but the double standards with the length of leash between different players is pretty hard to work out. I don't get why he's bothering with playing him at all if this is how he's going to do it. Send him to the Stars and let him play. Or if something has happened and things have soured on him, trade him.
 
DownUnder said:
Something has happened, it's just weird. It's gone from "he's such a great kid" etc to completely whipping boy status. No problem with holding someone accountable, but the double standards with the length of leash between different players is pretty hard to work out. I don't get why he's bothering with playing him at all if this is how he's going to do it. Send him to the Stars and let him play. Or if something has happened and things have soured on him, trade him.
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Trade him? lmao he has 0 trade value. No reason to trade him. Let him get a good off-season in and see what he can do next year. The kid sucks right now, that's why he doesnt play. The leash is equal for everyone, it's just everyone else knows how to play NBA basketball.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Trade him? lmao he has 0 trade value. No reason to trade him. Let him get a good off-season in and see what he can do next year. The kid sucks right now, that's why he doesnt play. The leash is equal for everyone, it's just everyone else knows how to play NBA basketball.
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dunno, i see other guys make similar mistakes and don't get yanked, particularly in such a demonstrative manner. I just think the way Quin is going about it is unneccesary, and i know you're totally a Quin dude between the way the refs call him and how Quin's handling him i feel for the dude.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Trade him? lmao he has 0 trade value. No reason to trade him. Let him get a good off-season in and see what he can do next year. The kid sucks right now, that's why he doesnt play. The leash is equal for everyone, it's just everyone else knows how to play NBA basketball.
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dunno, i see other guys make similar mistakes and don't get yanked, particularly in such a demonstrative manner. I just think the way Quin is going about it is unneccesary, and i know you're totally a Quin dude between the way the refs call him and how Quin's handling him i feel for the dude.
 
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