Detroit Situation was Over-exagerated??

so basically, all the t-mac haters accusing t-mac of quitting were wrong. lol! they stay takin' L's.

 

kuester sucks. fire him

 

Their excuses excuse them from missing shootaround/practice, but then why were they benched two straight games? You don't bench players even one game for that. They don't start or play limited minutes, but the punishment doesn't fit the crime, if it was just missing shootaround.

Wallace seems to have the only legit excuse here.

 

I think this is just PR spin. Of course there is more going on when so many guys miss the shootaround at the same time "coincidentally".

 

And when your minimum salary guys start having issues with you, the end is near.

 

If the report is true, Hamilton should apologize to the coach, in front of the team.

That, of course, will not happen.

The league should demand a contract clause that will allow teams to void contracts for conduct demtrimental to team chemistry and ban the player for one or multiple years from the league.

 

It's called damage control. There's no way that many guys 'coincidentally' miss the same shoot around.

More realistically, they all realized the negative publicity surrounding their moves...they were probably stupid enough to think that everyone would turn on Kuester instead of them, and that Pistons management would fire Kuester immediately following the staged protest.

Instead, media outlets jumped all over the five, calling them out for the joke they are, and now they're trying to back pedal.

Another view:

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yeah this will end well.

If an employer is trying to get rid of someone they can by using technicalities and ways to single someone out. Telling him the team bus is at 6pm instead of 5pm. That kind of thing. It could be abused by management.

They took a risk that hamilton was a hothead and that's what they get. We took a risk that yao might be able to play.

 

Like others are saying, it's all PR spin. It happened. All of the players that protested were held out of the game - ball don't lie.

 

So how will Dumars and the Detroit ownership discipline Hamilton, in particular, and the other no-shows?

Ideally, the coach should have the authority to discipline Hamilton.

Will Detroit / league fans cheer or boo Hamilton the next time he sees time on the court?

 

yea well if players miss shootaround because they overslept r because they showed up late than yea they should be disciplined. But i dont think mcgrady Tay and wallace were out because of that reason

 

I understand where you're coming from, but I dont think you can just excuse player misconduct as a measurable risk that teams have to swallow. I read recently that the NFL was negotiating stricter discipline for bad behavior, including clauses that would allow them to opt out of player contracts under certain circumstances (e.g. player getting thrown in jail for a major crime, etc.).

The NBA would do well to take a similar approach when assessing how to regulate the league and player misconduct during upcoming labor talks...

 

Can something every be under-exaggerated?

 

Even detroite beat writers are saying who were going beserk at first are now saying there was no mutiny and Tmac was very ill the night before and his excus was legit. So the haters here are now not looking so bright after all

 

If a player is very ill are they normally dressed in their warmups sitting on the bench?

I would think if he was very sick he wouldn't even be on the bench

 

Damage control

 

I would say the only real recourse the rest of the league has against players who "go off the reservation" would be a consensus-driven blackballing, right?? All the GMs could band together, and not give Player X (or Latrell Sprewell ) a job. Of course, I'd assume that the NBAPA would be all over this, and probably sue for collusion, but it's still enough to drive fear into a player, right?

 

David Aldridge is saying that tmac was sick as well.So now that the dust is settling the truth is emerging