Just want to hear everyone's reasoning or thought process on what exactly happened to Deron Williams. He used to be considered one of the best PGs in the league, and after years of just not contributing at the expected level in Brooklyn/NJ, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The Nets did everything for this guy and he has been awful. Do you see a bounce back year with Dallas?

People in sports that don't work out usually end up hurt and injured all the time and start sucking.

There endeth the lesson.

Coach killer, team cancer, and underachiever of the highest order.

mreinman wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:Deron = Marbury 2.0

Coach killer, team cancer, and underachiever of the highest order.

LOL

when you extremists flip, boy do you flip!

Carmelo is the best ever
Carmelo is the worst ever

Hey man, why you bring Melo into this! This is a Deron Bash thread, not a Melo bash thread!

Leave him alone!

Nalod wrote:I applaud the Nets for moving on as they did! They moved under the triple tax thing and Dallas got a small liability if it don't work out.
Thought getting him instead of Melo was the better trade but time has shown us otherwise. Lower the expectations and he is a good player, not the star max player he is getting paid. Nets saved 16mil off his buy out and stretch the rest out. Nets need to just tread water until they get some draft picks their way. Joe comes off the books next year. They will have cap room. My hope is Both Knicks and Nets play significant games! Rivalries are great!!!!

I like there draft of Hollis Jefferson and McCullough. They have good defensive potential under Hollins and athletism. If they pan out they have a pretty good frontcourt rotation with Young and Lopez.

Nalod wrote:I applaud the Nets for moving on as they did! They moved under the triple tax thing and Dallas got a small liability if it don't work out.
Thought getting him instead of Melo was the better trade but time has shown us otherwise. Lower the expectations and he is a good player, not the star max player he is getting paid. Nets saved 16mil off his buy out and stretch the rest out. Nets need to just tread water until they get some draft picks their way. Joe comes off the books next year. They will have cap room. My hope is Both Knicks and Nets play significant games! Rivalries are great!!!!

I definitely would love to have that. The Knicks/Nets games should mean more! I look forward to the future Porzee vs (insert new face of Brooklyn player here.) games!

TripleThreat wrote:

lxndiaz wrote:....what exactly happened to Deron Williams.....

IMHO, Williams is more proof that point guard still holds the lowest positional value across the entire NBA.

Very hard to get the wing play and pivot play you need, and factor in the salary cap and what the market rate is for those positions when you are paying max dollars to a point guard.

Stephen King said something interesting once, he said fame and money are simply like a magnifying glass, that you are what you have always been character wise, everything just seems bigger, but that core part of you will always be your reality.

Deron Williams is a selfish douchebag. He'd be a selfish douchebag if he was a trucker, if he worked on a farm, or if he was in the NBA.

I do approve of what the Jazz did. For whatever struggles that franchise had, at least they didn't get held hostage like the Melo in Denver and Howard in Orlando situations. They just told the guy to go pack his trash and leave as soon as Sloan decided he'd rather fish than deal with Deron Williams.

Think about that indictment. Sloan did something he loved forever, then decided it was easier to stop loving it than deal with Deron Williams. Is there a bigger open judgement call on a person made ever in pro sports? That's quite the mantle - that you are the kind of douchebag that saps every bit of love out of the game itself wherever you go.

But Sloan never did return and to some extent Sloan was also burn't out and cooked as well. No doubt Deron had a piece in it but as Larry Miller health failed and next generation was taking over there was a big change as NBA got to be more than just a family business. IN fact, Jazz upper management has changed again in the last year.

To me the story was not just Deron, but many forces including Sloan losing his wife and by plowing back into coaching with great intensity while not having a balance in other parts of his life. To just lay it all on Deron as the bad guy who sucked the joy out of life for Sloan. Basically Sloan is not some innocent bambi who needs protection. He allowed Deron or the game to eat him up and maybe stayed too long.

Again, not to say Deron is without fault but not everything is good guy vs. bad guy or there are clear lines. Sloan was a throw back and had an owner that had his back always. when Management changed and maybe did no't have his back 100%, it got weird for everyone.