Royce White skips game and practice (UPDATE: White issues statement)

Ftr, Royce said he likes One Republic, not One Direction.

 

Interesting to note that screenwriting and writing music are two things that can be (and often are) done completely by oneself. Playing in the NBA is WAY different.

 

Lol, yeah One Direction would have killed his career alone :grin:


Dobro, i still agree with what you said though. It's like a player talking about being a student of the game of basketball, a historian, and then listing Iverson, Kobe, and Lebron as the guys he follows/followed. It's easy to pay attention to what is going on in front of you, but to be truly educated in something you must seek out information that's not always at hand. Have to dig deeper than what is on the surface.

 

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Maybe his One Republic love can show him what it takes to be a winner in basketball.

 

Deaux, I meant to include this instead:

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Royce White is just an immature kid that's acting up to get his way. I think that when Royce was growing up, everything went his way and even in college, he got what he wanted. So coming into the NBA, he thought he could get what he want and believe he would get special treatment because of his mental illness.

So when reality smacks him in the face, he think that by using his mental illness as an excuse, everything would go his way. He thought that he was guaranteed minutes because he was a first round draft pick. Even though the fact that he didn't go to training camp, skips practices, he still think that he will get PT over other players who actually works hard to earn it.

 

This feels seems like an immature kid's take on an immature kid.

 

Nope, it's pretty accurate.

 

Nope, it's actually a pretty accurate analysis. I've seen people take advantage of their disability...expecting it to curry favor from other people and getting special treatment, but not putting any work in themselves to overcome their disability.

I've also seen people with disability work so hard they end up accomplishing more than the average joe.

I think Royce White's 'anxiety' is a minor issue (really, how bad could your disorder be if you managed to raise a family and get into the NBA) and that he needs to put in work himself to make it work. He could've done all of that twitter #anxiety nonsense behind closed doors, (I'm sure he has a direct line to anyone in the Rockets FO given his special situation), instead he made himself look like an idiot.

That said, he's only 22. We shouldn't give up on him yet. Stash him in the D-league a couple of years, make him used to the grind and routine of a professional baller's life, and hopefully Toney Douglas is not the Rockets bleeping backup PG still.

 

Nope. He turned to ESPN and Twitter before talking to Morey and
calling him honcho

 

OK I'm taking my comments on the Royce White situation here... someone asked me why I thought this looked like a law suit brewing in another thread... basically I wrote the below:

... It's all conjecture that can easily be pieced together if you take into account his actions and persona. Just think about the laws which protect people with disabilities... it's like building a handicap ramp for someone in a wheel chair... you have to cater to that sort of thing... same with playing ball and accommodating a bus and treatment to help with White's "anxiety."


Additionally: I do not have any insider news on this, though I wish I did. I just look at the clues from the outside that seem to fall through cracks in these stories we all see. We can deduce much from what has happened, or often times more so from what hasn't happened.

 

It seems like he can't be normal anywhere he go. He has a problem with everywhere that he goes. Its always something and he blames everyone but himself. He doesn't realized that his tract record is due to his own fault.

He should be happy that the Rockets are willing to give him a chance and drafted him in the first round. But he continues to push his luck and blames all his problems on the team that drafted him. He didn't show up to training camp at the beginning so he was really behind. Then he stop coming to practices and games and didn't show up to his D League assignments. What else is he expecting the Rockets to do? Throw him in the starting line up because he skipping games and practices and being immature?

I'm sorry but the NBA is a men's league and Royce White is a immature little punk. When things doesn't go his way, he decided to go AWOL and blames everything on the Rockets and uses his mental illness as an excuse. I've seen guys with worst illness that work harder than him. I hope the Rockets will keep fining him.

 

I stand corrected. Still One Republic isn't much better. If the guy started naming off B-Sides of the Kinks from the 70's that would be one thing, but either way.... the guy is just posing as a cultured music guru, and given his age and maturity level, that's about all you can expect. I respect him for trying though. At least he's trying hard not to conform.

 

Maybe he is... not saying he isn't... that's beside the point. Not calling him a poser in a derogatory manner. Just saying he's a confused young man trying to find himself in different passions.

The fact that he's trying to associate himself with so many different personalities tells me he might not have a passion for what he is doing now in any way, and is trying to find it elsewhere. Thats all. Pretty simple. The music interests just tell one element of the story. The Beatles are at the very least a good start.

The more I look at this, the more I realize that the OCD, PTSD, GAD, etc. are just side symptoms to what the problem really is.... finding out who you are as an adult, and taking responsibility for what you do. I feel that way because I can relate to him in a lot of ways.

If I had to give him any advice I would say personally to do what you need to do to find yourself, but make sure you don't burn your bridges along the way. Those can come back to haunt you in many different ways. Network yourself as best as you can, and make sure that you realize that even if you don't like what you do now, that thing you do, might give you a platform to express yourself in ways that fulfill yourself.

This guy has the passion to do a lot of good in his life outside of the sport. I just hope he realizes here pretty soon that he might have burned a bridge that he could have used in the future to really do some good. That's that saddest part of this story in the end if for some reason he end up having to be waived or walking away from basketball.

I speak from experience here although I never did anything as publicly outrageous as Royce did.

Royce being a poser is the last thing I wanted to convey. I just thought his passion in so many different things AWAY from basketball told a completely different story all together.

 

Cue word young
What's with the young guys that look like 40 year olds
Is he going to look like Lebron in a few years?

 

With all due respect, Im not sure thats true at all. As a screen writer most of the time your job is more of a sales person than anything unless you are Aaron freaking Sorkin.

You have to sell your work to producers & filmmakers 99% of the time. The other 1% of the time other people are telling you about a concept they would like you to draft a movie about... maybe... say the game Battleship, or another Transformers movie.... Either way, in the real world, being a screen writer would have to involve a very collaborative work environment at the end of the day.

Its still a job with someone else flipping the bill. This is just the real world. He can write movies all he wants to in his college dorm, but if he wants to make a famous living out of it, he's going to face many of the same issues he had eventually as an NBA basketball player even as a screenwriter.

And as a musician.. HA... I can speak from personal experience there.. You aren't going to find too many other professions more stressful than in the world of music performance. Ive been DJing and producing music since my college days in Austin and every time I work a gig I still get so nervous that I feel like Im running a 105 degree temperature and want to vomit. Its an extremely nerve racking profession, and again it takes a good deal of collaboration with other humans any way you look at it. If he wants a life with less anxiety in music..... good luck buddy.

 

I dont know if he has a future in basketball. I do know that its to late to apologiiize.

 

I think you have a bit of OCD too ? 75 posts in this one thread