Comments on: John Kuester didn’t have to pick winning or Richard Hamilton’s feelings

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:05:25 +0000

Exactly!!! All it would have taken was a conversation, it’s truly that simple.. I’ll even be willing to admit that in a normal situation, most players don’t necessarily deserve an explanation. In a normal situation, the coach has the right to bench someone, with no explanation whatsoever.

This is no normal situation. This is a team that went through a handful of coaches in recent years because of problems with veteran players. This is a team that tried the Iverson experiment, and watched it fail miserably in front of their eyes. This situation is different in that Rip is the teams leading scorer over 8 years, and happens to also be the highest paid player on the team. Again, he is the highest paid player on the team……. Did we also forget that he is a team captain???

This isn’t the way you treat someone who has put so much into this organization. I agree with you, Feldman. Im sure Rip wouldn’t be happy with being benched, but had Kuester sat down and said . “We want to shake things up, try something new.. ” etc, something tells me it would be that less hard for Rip to stomach. He may not agree with it, but at least he wouldn’t feel disrespected..

By: JoshB

JoshB — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:14:56 +0000

Aside from your love of those rodents from ann arbor, I agree with you on this. If I remember correctly I read that kuester essentially pointed out that mostly everyone else on the team has had a dnp-cd as if that justified his methods, but the only person who has been somewhat of a longterm starter and got benched at all was stuckey, and that was obviously for discipline reasons. I commend kuester for trying to make sure that it’s obvious who’s team this is, but you can still show someone respect in a situation even though your word is final. We talk about rip being a baby in the situation and to some extent he has been, but I really wonder if anyone can imagine how difficult a position that has to be. This guy has had a ton of success in this organization, and lets not forget that as much as we all love Chauncey, he got finals mvp because that was probably his most favorable match-up in the league. Against another team that probably would have been rip’s accolade. No matter how much any of us wanna make this be about money I find it hard to believe that a lot of us wouldn’t react the same

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