Bippity10 wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Good read....McCants is just victim of the nba fraternity. There are tons of nba talent that get pushed away for no good reason. "Attitude" is a cop out cuz you can run with it. Having to see a psych? Come on....the nba blacklist people all the time and we've talked about that here tons of times.

McCants had problems with Doherty in college(who also asked him to see a psychologist) and some issues with Roy Williams as well. Now NBA coaches and some of his teammates have said the same. At what point is the attitude problem real? What is the motivation for coaches and GM's to indiscriminately target and blackball talented players? What do they get out of it?

The reality is that he is faced with a real world situation with real world responses and no longer is being shielded by the fact that he is more talented then everyone else. In high school he could get away with it. Now he can't. In the real world if you fight with your 3 previous bosses and develop a reputation in your industry as a trouble maker people are not going to take a chance on you. You either have to move or try a differetn industry, or become so talented that no one can refuse you. Or start from the bottom again and rebuild your reputation. McCants is going through this right now. He's talented but not so talented that he gives people no choice. He has a reputation as a problem child and teams are hesitant to take a chance. He can either continue doing what he is doing and continue to be blackballed. Or change is attitude (guarantee there are a million more stories then what you read). Or become so talented he gives no other choice. If not, he wil always be walking around going "teams don't like me for no reason, they don't want to sign me because I don't smile". Poppycock!

couldn't have said it better myself bip.

No one could have

I thought the Poppycock part was the most brilliant part

Bippity10 wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Good read....McCants is just victim of the nba fraternity. There are tons of nba talent that get pushed away for no good reason. "Attitude" is a cop out cuz you can run with it. Having to see a psych? Come on....the nba blacklist people all the time and we've talked about that here tons of times.

McCants had problems with Doherty in college(who also asked him to see a psychologist) and some issues with Roy Williams as well. Now NBA coaches and some of his teammates have said the same. At what point is the attitude problem real? What is the motivation for coaches and GM's to indiscriminately target and blackball talented players? What do they get out of it?

The reality is that he is faced with a real world situation with real world responses and no longer is being shielded by the fact that he is more talented then everyone else. In high school he could get away with it. Now he can't. In the real world if you fight with your 3 previous bosses and develop a reputation in your industry as a trouble maker people are not going to take a chance on you. You either have to move or try a differetn industry, or become so talented that no one can refuse you. Or start from the bottom again and rebuild your reputation. McCants is going through this right now. He's talented but not so talented that he gives people no choice. He has a reputation as a problem child and teams are hesitant to take a chance. He can either continue doing what he is doing and continue to be blackballed. Or change is attitude (guarantee there are a million more stories then what you read). Or become so talented he gives no other choice. If not, he wil always be walking around going "teams don't like me for no reason, they don't want to sign me because I don't smile". Poppycock!

couldn't have said it better myself bip.

No one could have

I thought the Poppycock part was the most brilliant part

quoting yourself now to get back to 10k?

But he knows the NBA isn't waiting for him. He knows it's his move. "You know," McCants begins slowly, "if they want me to smile ... I'll do it." He sits back in his chair and promptly undermines the declaration he has just made. "But I won't ever change being me."

Hmmmmm, where have we heard this line of bull$hit, excuse me, 'poppycock', before...? Maybe he should just save time and contact the Chinese league now.

loweyecue wrote:I HATE players with attitude problems and never defend them. But this guy may be a little different. I keep thinking the guy plays hard and is not selfish like Marbury. Am I way off? But the first two coaches in college tried to send him to a shrink and cited a "personality disorder". Now the guy obviously got defensive when that happened but who wouldn't? Then the label kind of stuck and every other coach who had ny difficulty with him found his an easy out. Not saying he is blameless, but this type of thing snowballs quickly. He may not have been mature enough to see he was perpetuating it, but he seems to do what the coaches ask him. I think this dude is a victim of a system and he just didn't have what it takes to pull out of the viscous cycle.

If this type of label had been attached to Lebron in college he wouldn't have made it past year two. Just saying.

You have no idea what he does or does not do unless you are part of the team. It's all hearsay. But when it's repeated over and over again, it tends to be true.