View Full Version : [loser] Derek Anderson seeking buyout
Ronny
08-01-2006, 09:58 AM
Swingman Derek Anderson is under contract for $2.5 million next season but has said he would seek a buyout unless Riley gives him reason to believe he would get regular playing time.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/basketball/15166888.htm
Derek Anderson would have been a great fit for last year's Miami Heat team, which comprised of a bunch of individual talent with no concept of playing within a system. Now that the Walkers and Williams have settled down to some extent, resulting in a championship, he'll have to take his superstar-like powers to some other fortunate team.
Still can't believe we signed this guy over Greg Buckner.
SamFisher
08-01-2006, 10:04 AM
Yes if there's anything Anderson showed, it's that he deserves more playing time, what with 5.8 ppg on 30% shooting.
emjohn
08-01-2006, 10:08 AM
You'd think he'd learn, considering his career-killing decision to leave the Spurs for the Blazers. That was as much about PT and ego-massaging as it was money.
Evan
studogg
08-01-2006, 10:19 AM
maybe we could sign him on the cheap!
GRENDAL
08-01-2006, 10:21 AM
Yes if there's anything Anderson showed, it's that he deserves more playing time, what with 5.8 ppg on 30% shooting.
Why wouldn't you want a guy like that on the floor ;)
Give him a few more shots and he might be up around 32-33%.
pgabriel
08-01-2006, 11:10 AM
I can't believe I used to defend him.
BrockStapper
08-01-2006, 11:12 AM
I can't believe I used to defend him.
apparently he's fairly easy to defend...
apparently he's fairly easy to defend...
LOL - that's a good one!
A_3PO
08-01-2006, 12:19 PM
He looked really good during the preseason last year. I thought he would be an effective gunner off the bench. A lot of us missed the boat on DA.
verse
08-01-2006, 12:25 PM
and to think...some people were lambasting jvg for releasing da. looks like coach knew what he was doing after all, huh?
rimbaud
08-01-2006, 12:52 PM
and to think...some people were lambasting jvg for releasing da. looks like coach knew what he was doing after all, huh?
Especially since CD traded him for a TE that resulted in getting Snyder. So..uh...yeah, JVG was smart to release him.
AroundTheWorld
08-01-2006, 01:21 PM
Sucks that he got a ring last season. The games in which I watched him, he was just HORRIBLE.
underoverup
08-01-2006, 01:26 PM
what is with this guy; who would want him at this point?
GRENDAL
08-01-2006, 01:42 PM
Sucks that he got a ring last season. The games in which I watched him, he was just HORRIBLE.
Yeah but he'll be one those of hundreds of players that get a ring as a result of being in the right place at the right time but adding nothing.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/basketball/15166888.htm
Still can't believe we signed this guy over Greg Buckner.
Greg Buckner would have been a great signing for the Rockets. Jeff Van Gundy would've loved his hustle. I watched him play a lot in college at Clemson, he was a leader and learned how to do the little things to become a good role player in the NBA. He'd still be on the roster contributing if the Rockets didn't make the mistake that was Derek Anderson (nice cornrows btw).
WhoMikeJames
08-01-2006, 08:44 PM
Do you guys remember the old DA?
coolweather
08-02-2006, 09:01 AM
He should be seeking a good retirement house
kobefor3ITSGOOD
08-02-2006, 01:38 PM
Yeah I can't believe the Rockets and the Lakers were high on DA last year. And I was actually a little disappointed when the Lakers didn't get him but was happy the Rockets got him :rolleyes: .
emjohn
08-02-2006, 02:43 PM
Yeah I can't believe the Rockets and the Lakers were high on DA last year. And I was actually a little disappointed when the Lakers didn't get him but was happy the Rockets got him :rolleyes: .
The fans here can be awfully funny. The excuse-making for DA and Stro last year was comical. When both of them proved to be the same guys they've been for the last few years, it got twisted to JVG screwing them up. Now that they're gone, reality's settling back in.
We're hilarious around here. Pure objectivity. Can't wait for the board to turn on Kill Bill.
Evan
GRENDAL
08-02-2006, 03:19 PM
The fans here can be awfully funny. The excuse-making for DA and Stro last year was comical. When both of them proved to be the same guys they've been for the last few years, it got twisted to JVG screwing them up. Now that they're gone, reality's settling back in.
We're hilarious around here. Pure objectivity. Can't wait for the board to turn on Kill Bill.
Evan
Come on man, you wouldn't have it any other way would you? :p
imoffg33
08-02-2006, 03:26 PM
The fans here can be awfully funny. The excuse-making for DA and Stro last year was comical. When both of them proved to be the same guys they've been for the last few years, it got twisted to JVG screwing them up. Now that they're gone, reality's settling back in.
We're hilarious around here. Pure objectivity. Can't wait for the board to turn on Kill Bill.
Evan
THANK YOU!!!!! here is what KillBill's stats will be for this year: 0
he will be lucky if he plays at all
nuff said
SamFisher
08-02-2006, 03:33 PM
The fans here can be awfully funny. The excuse-making for DA and Stro last year was comical. When both of them proved to be the same guys they've been for the last few years, it got twisted to JVG screwing them up. Now that they're gone, reality's settling back in.
We're hilarious around here. Pure objectivity. Can't wait for the board to turn on Kill Bill.
Evan
You should just do like me and assume that they will suck from the start.
GRENDAL
08-02-2006, 03:34 PM
You should just do like me and assume that they will suck from the start.
All upside if you start from there! :D
DraftBoy10
08-02-2006, 07:17 PM
The fans here can be awfully funny. The excuse-making for DA and Stro last year was comical. When both of them proved to be the same guys they've been for the last few years, it got twisted to JVG screwing them up. Now that they're gone, reality's settling back in.
We're hilarious around here. Pure objectivity. Can't wait for the board to turn on Kill Bill.
Evan
I'm still in defense for Swift. I'm in no defense for DA, I thought he could be a good, solid scorer off of the pine,and fact is in about 28mpg, he got us 10/4/4 and that was solid. So he was good, but his baggage is just plain old dirty and ugly, we don't want a piece of that. Always something or the other with him.
TRAVLR
08-02-2006, 08:54 PM
Not that attitude towards the fans necessarily means that much, but DA when he was injured and walking in like he was stoned to the bone, wouldn't so much as sign a kid's autograph at the tunnel into the TC. Lot's of other players would sign, but over and over I saw him just blow off kids like it was somehow "beneath" him.
He just seemed like an arrogant attitude problem. Then he got a ring, so that just proves Life Ain't Fair!
aussie rocket
08-03-2006, 03:23 AM
is it just me or did the original Derek Anderson - minus the grown out hair - look a lot like Martin Lawrence?
E Wizzle
08-06-2006, 12:20 AM
Do you guys remember the old DA?
He was actually very athletic and attacked the basket readily.... until he got injured and began the process into becoming 100% Bitch (settled more on his outside jumper), joining the proud ranks of Dirk and the Italian World Cup soccer team.
Van Gundier
08-06-2006, 12:25 AM
He was actually very athletic and attacked the basket readily.... until he got injured and began the process into becoming 100% Bitch (settled more on his outside jumper), joining the proud ranks of Dirk and the Italian World Cup soccer team.
And some of us remember who injured him...
E Wizzle
08-06-2006, 12:37 AM
And some of us remember who injured him...
Juwan did something right for a change.
That was cruel.... to Juwan.
jmwilliamson
08-06-2006, 12:49 AM
I actually remember ripping up Derek Anderson after he was still trash talking the Blazers to the press well after he arrived in Houston. TONS of people came to his defense. I really ought to dig up that thread because it'd be interesting to see if any of those people defending him then are the same people attacking him now.
Derek Anderson is a washed up, ungrateful whiner. The guy gets paid millions of dollars a year to be terrible at his job and still manages to act like the world is against him.
AggieRocketFan96
08-06-2006, 02:33 PM
Some fans have expectations and want to believe. But when a free agent comes in here and doesn't produce due to mediocrity, the fans have every right to complain. Fact is JVG was unable to turn those guys around. Jury is definently out on VSpan. He won't be immune to the fan's judgements just like any other player on the team. Hilarious? Maybe. Normal fan reaction, most definently.
The fans here can be awfully funny. The excuse-making for DA and Stro last year was comical. When both of them proved to be the same guys they've been for the last few years, it got twisted to JVG screwing them up. Now that they're gone, reality's settling back in.
We're hilarious around here. Pure objectivity. Can't wait for the board to turn on Kill Bill.
Evan
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