Royce White leaving RGV to go back to Houston, but not to play

People totally overreacting. The guy just needs a routine before we see what he can really become. Shouldn't be a shock that someone with OCD is struggling to adapt to a new environment.

 

That was just total bull**** from Royce White. I have no respect from him.

He claimed his main problem is getting the Rockets to acknowledge and give recognition to his mental health condition. DUH, THEY DID FOOL.

Also, he claims that he wants to his doctors to make the decisions that NBA teams are used to making, which sounded like things like "playing time, if he starts, if he travels, etc." THAT'S TOTALLY ****ING RIDICULOUSLY DUDE!

I look forward to the day we get rid of him.

 

I agree that people are overreacting, Royce White is irrelevant, he's just a draft bust who isn't even good enough to play at a D league level. The fact that he quit on the team isn't surprising and isn't really newsworthy. Actually, it's a good thing because it let's the Rockets void his contract and make the draft bust go away without taking up any more cap space in the future.

 

^THIS^

 

It was a risk worth taking considering where the rockets were picking and the state of the team at the time. Go for the possible home run rather than another solid player who is unlikely to be more than a role player. It's not like most players picked 16 are stars anyway or even starters long term.
Players picked 16 since 2001:

2012 Royce White
2011 Nikola Vucevic
2010 Luke Babbitt
2009 James Johnson
2008 Marreese Speights
2007 Nick Young
2006 Rodney Carney
2005 Joey Graham
2004 Kirk Snyder
2003 Troy Bell
2002 Jiri Welsch
2001 Kirk Haston

Most of those guys didn't have careers that were anything worth crying over missing in comparison to Royce White, even if he never plays for us. Royce's failure is just more public.

Nobody gets every pick right, and Royce certainly seems to have played a role in misrepresenting his desire to work thru his mental issues and instead expects that the Rockets should work around them.

 

From what I've read, McHale was the guy pounding the table for White. Also saw an ESPN segment where Royce and his agent were discussing that all the teams behind the Rockets and through the Celtics were not going to draft him. Bad pick all around, but I'm not exactly sure who to blame...

 

Why does this guy only have anxiety when facing the basketball court, but seemingly has no trouble appearing on national television and asking jump offs to rim him?

 

His anxiety is directly related to his role on a basketball team. When he's starting, he never has any problems, but if he has to come off the bench, his life is in danger. Terrence Jones heading back to the D league could have literally killed White so he had to run away from the situation.

 

I don't think he is faking all of his mental issues. I just think he has no desire to treat them, and wants the team to work around them rather than him attending therapy to confront the problem and work on fixing it. It leaves the impression that he lied about the severity and/or willingness to work on treating the problem in order to get his contract.

It's like some one who is out of shape and over weight saying that working out causes them soreness and discomfort. They aren't lieing, but they have to realize that the soreness and discomfort of working out when out of shape and over weight is part of the process to get in shape. Royce doesn't seem willing to even attempt to confront his fears. He is stuck on the fact that the fear causes him mental anguish and that's enough reason to justify not doing it.

 

Now we officially have a drama queen.

 

I don't think he's faking having mental illness. I think he is faking when he has attacks and is using his mental illness as an excuse to remove himself from any situation that makes him just another guy having to work hard to make it. I don't think he'd have an attack if he was in the Rockets starting lineup from here forward and was handed the ball like Hoiberg did him at ISU. Why didn't he have attacks when all that pressure was on him, playing in the NCAA tournament, etc.? And yet when the pressure is off down in RGV he's having problems?

Let him rot.

 

Void him Morey. It's time.

 

Royce White. The only player who could make me miss Stromile Swift.

 

What scares me is the possibility of making the playoffs, and enough guys are out due to injury, that White would suit up and play.

But what's really scary about that situation is every time I see his *ss on court, I'll be thinking about tossed salad :O

 

He's been spoiled his whole life. This isn't mental illness preventing him from doing his job. It's the enablers he's been surrounded with his whole life. He has to have everything his way and life doesn't work that way. The people that built his house, built his car, doctors he's gone too, the plumbers, electricians, etc....if they all thought and acted as he did, he'd have no working electricity, no roof over his head, no working car. There'd be none of that in the world. That's the point he can't get. There's tons of things we're all uncomfortable with. There's certain ways we'd all like to do things. But we have to eat and we need roofs over our heads so we go through the daily grind. Whether he has a mental illness or not, how is that anybody else's problem but his own? You signed a contract to perform a service and you're not performing it. The problem here is he's still getting paid. He needs to be starved. He needs to feel the desperation we all feel every day. Then all of a sudden, voila, no more mental illness, he can all of a sudden perform the duties expected of him.

 

He definitely seems to be using his mental illness as an excuse to get out of anything he doesn't want to do and as an enabler for any mistakes he makes. Only he knows for sure how much.

My point was more the idea that some people seem to have that he doesn't have any mental illness in the first place. In which case "faking" a mental illness cost him millions of dollars that he would have made from being a lottery pick. It's not like the long bus rides he took for some of the road D League games were something to be jealous of either. So I just don't see the motivation.

 

**** Royce White and the Bus he rode in on.

 

I think it's a good idea to let all the facts come to light first. But it doesn't sound good at this stage.

 

The interviewer on CNN asked outright that the Rockets stated they were totally committed, so what exactly are they NOT doing?

And that was his answer. No actions that the Rockets didn't follow through on. Just acknowledgement and recognition.

Royce cannot get over some perceived slight and still holds a grudge, or he's just milking it. Most likely both.

 

That's an extraordinarily uneducated view of mental illness.

The response on this forum is EVERYTHING that's wrong with superfans in sports. You only reinforce what he says about people taking sports too seriously or the sports business treating people as commodities.

No different when one of our players has a bad game. Suddenly everyone jumps on him as if we are personally injured.

I'm a huge basketball and Rockets fan. But I don't take this stuff as personally as some of you seem to. It's sickening. Despite the fact he has a huge, guaranteed contract it's obvious he's hurting. And money doesn't just make life's problems go away.

Hope you guys go back and read these ridiculous posts and feel some semblance of shame that you're HAMMERING a 22 year old like this. All while assuming he's faking or his doctor is enabling or whatever thing you are speculating on.

Pathetic.