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05-03-2005, 11:19 PM
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Wilbon // What Can Brown Do For You?
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No consequence is too severe for quitting on your team in the playoffs, so dismissing Kwame Brown for the rest of this season is exactly the right thing for the Washington Wizards to do. Not another day should the franchise wait on this kid to develop or tolerate his continued lack of professionalism. To even have him in the locker room, where he can potentially undermine a team doing just fine in the playoffs, would be irresponsible.
So the coach, Eddie Jordan, told Brown not to come back, which is the right move. And Ernie Grunfeld, the president of basketball operations, backed Jordan, which is the right move. Any consideration of Brown's trade value should be secondary to giving this team every possible chance to advance in these playoffs.
Failing to show up for practice the day before, and the morning of, a playoff game because your tummy aches is unpardonable. On the same day that Brown didn't show up for the game-day shoot-around because he said he had a stomach virus, Houston Rockets guard Bobby Sura checked out of a Dallas hospital in time to play against the Mavericks later that night. Sura had some kind of bug himself, one serious enough to send him to the hospital, where he had IVs in him for hours. Nevertheless, he got to the game. Sura didn't bail on his teammates in the playoffs.
The issue here isn't whether Brown was sick. The issue is that he doesn't particularly want to play. Brown got upset Saturday because he played just four minutes in Game 3, even though he was wretched in those four minutes. He got upset because the people here who pay good money for tickets increasingly have booed him. He's upset at seeing a marginally talented guy like Michael Ruffin, a guy with no draft pedigree, get the minutes and the love because he works, thinks, hustles, practices, cares and sacrifices. Brown, of course, isn't even remotely familiar with any of those characteristics.
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Wilbon has never been the most pro-Kwame guy around, but even still, I think there's a lot of truth to the article.
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05-03-2005, 11:41 PM
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Re: Wilbon // What Can Brown Do For You?
It's hard to support Kwame right now and I agree with a lot of that, but I'm not going to really listen to a guy who still won't accept that a guy like Kobe didn't need college. He's so biased against HS guys, you can't even reason with him.
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05-04-2005, 09:27 AM
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Re: Wilbon // What Can Brown Do For You?
I read the whole article today. Wilbon is flat out WRONG that Kwame was given every opportunity to succeed here. Obviously Collins wasn'nt the right fit, but neither was Jordan. Jordan was not very patient with Kwame at all. He didn't yell and didn't scream at him, but he was almost mysterious in the PT he gave Kwame, taking him in and out seemingly at random with no explanation. EJ may have actually been more frustrating than Collins because I don't think Kwame ever knew where he stood. He started wondering what the hell he did wrong and he's stubborn so he just said F EJ.
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05-04-2005, 09:49 AM
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Re: Wilbon // What Can Brown Do For You?
Wilbon would impress me more if even looked like he did any activity other than eating! And he gets paid handsomely for blowing hot air.
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05-04-2005, 11:10 AM
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Re: Wilbon // What Can Brown Do For You?
The one thing I can't stand about EJ, is his erratic substitution patterns. Aside from the big three, no one on the team is absolutely clear where they stand. I feel this worked against Kwame more than anyone else on the team. Especially when Kwame tried to come back too early off an injury to not be totally left out of the rotation.
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05-04-2005, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Dualie
The one thing I can't stand about EJ, is his erratic substitution patterns. Aside from the big three, no one on the team is absolutely clear where they stand. I feel this worked against Kwame more than anyone else on the team. Especially when Kwame tried to come back too early off an injury to not be totally left out of the rotation.
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BTW, Wilbon's opinion rarely matters. If he had his way, the Wizards would have taken Shane Battier with their first pick.
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