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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jun 18, 2019 2:18:21 GMT -5
Take a listen to this CHris Mannix interview on WEEI yesterday: omny.fm/shows/ordway-merloni-fauria/omf-chris-mannix-joins-us-to-discuss-fallout-fromInteresting parts are: -Kyrie’c camp has been quiet for a couple of weeks now, which only adds to the assumption thst he’s gone. -Kyrie and Brad have different philosophies — Brad is a coach who pushes players to improve day by day, game by game, keep on grinding; Kyrie doesn’t care about the regular season, and just wants to turn it on come playoff time. -Jaylen and Kyrie had a dislike for each other. I just don’t think we can (or should) bring Kyrie back. If he’s going to buck heads with Brad, that’s a no go. The lockerroom is going to slip and if the star player doesn’t want to listen to the coach, other players are going to tune Brad out too when he preaches daily improvement.
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Post by eja117 on Jun 18, 2019 6:37:15 GMT -5
Take a listen to this CHris Mannix interview on WEEI yesterday: omny.fm/shows/ordway-merloni-fauria/omf-chris-mannix-joins-us-to-discuss-fallout-fromInteresting parts are: -Kyrie’c camp has been quiet for a couple of weeks now, which only adds to the assumption thst he’s gone. -Kyrie and Brad have different philosophies — Brad is a coach who pushes players to improve day by day, game by game, keep on grinding; Kyrie doesn’t care about the regular season, and just wants to turn it on come playoff time. -Jaylen and Kyrie had a dislike for each other. I just don’t think we can (or should) bring Kyrie back. If he’s going to buck heads with Brad, that’s a no go. The lockerroom is going to slip and if the star player doesn’t want to listen to the coach, other players are going to tune Brad out too when he preaches daily improvement. Kyrie strikes me like a lot of stars these days. He's a glorified quitter. He wants a ready made championship team so he doesn't have to work. Then he spouts weird stuff he might even believe like "It's about balance. It's about me being the best me I can be, but the best whole me, and that requires a fluid situation and a spiritually healthy situation so that I can exist in a good space and flow on the court and off the court".......what does stuff like that even mean? It means he doesn't want to compete and fight and lead. He's not a Brad guy. He's not an Ainge guy. He's not Boston. He's not a Celtic.
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Post by runrondo on Jun 18, 2019 8:14:38 GMT -5
This Jackie Mac article always left an impression on me when I read it due to the following exchange below which shows Kyrie may be a bit "selfish" when it comes to understanding the team game and doing the little things that I assume Brad keys on. When a player is too good for his own sake. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21941260/nba-playing-lebron-winning-nba-title-kyrie-irving-decided-move-question-whyHe goes on to admit he was in the wrong on this anecdote, but says it was a struggle for him to understand how he fit on that team and what was best for the team (sound familiar?). Two different situations, same result.
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jun 18, 2019 14:36:20 GMT -5
I do think Kyrie had some legit concerns about some of the young players’ mindset — they needed to be told they haven’t won anything yet, and they needed lazer-like focus to win games.
But I don’t think he showed them the right way to do it.
Anyways, with all the negativity that happened last year, he may not want to return to Boston. Oh well, his loss. Danny will move on and recalculate.
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Post by jmost on Jun 18, 2019 16:31:47 GMT -5
Fundamentally, Kyrie is a knucklehead who happens to be very talented. Jaylen on the other hand is a genuinely smart guy. Some guys might listen to Kyrie spout that gibberish and figure they weren't old enough or smart enough to get what Kyrie meant. Jaylen knew it was nonsense as soon as he heard it and must have thought something like "This is my leader?".
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