OT - Stay-Puft

[clipperlover]

My son told me about The Athletic article where they had a sit-down with Stay-Puft and he talked about how the 2013-14 team was toxic and how he views Griffin:
https://theathletic.com/1495387/2019/12/30/a-candid-conversation-with-nba-veteran-jared-dudley-who-will-talk-about-absolutely-anything/

When looking for the article, I found this website where the first sentence alone causes the writer to lose all credibility:
https://www.talkbasket.net/63015-jared-dudley-against-the-clippers-its-a-toxic-team

Worst trade of the Doc era was trading Butler and Bledsoe to get Dudley and Reddick. We could have dealt Butler to the Bucks ourselves and picked up Gortat for Bledsoe (we needed a backup C) in a separate deal.

[MartinToVaught]

Dudley should be thankful he was on that team. He's milked a lot of attention from talking about those Clippers teams to the media every year and implying that it was everyone else's fault that he sucked. And it's all one-sided as far as I can tell - I don't think Blake's ever said anything to the media about Dudley, for instance.

[esqtvd]

That guy NEVER shuts up. I do believe CP or somebody came to Doc and BEGGED him to get rid of this guy. Trade him for a six-pack. I don't even care if it's cold.

[Dynamix]

Dudley knows that he's on borrowed time in the league and is trying to make the most out of this Lakers stint, in preparation for that sweet ESPN "hot take analyst" role.

[QRich3]

lol he's still talking about this?

The funny thing is, for all the faults he wants to put on that team, that year things were working out great on the floor, except for one guy so obviously underperforming, who was him. He made up a phantom injury diagnosed one year after the fact to excuse himself and everything, but the reality is whatever faults he wanna put on that team, that year everything was clicking except for him. And he was supposed to be really important, we gave away young Bledsoe to get his fat ass. And he sucked like few players I've ever seen relative to expectations. And he's still talking about how it was everyone else's fault. Ok Jared.

[esqtvd]

lol he's still talking about this?

The funny thing is, for all the faults he wants to put on that team, that year things were working out great on the floor, except for one guy so obviously underperforming, who was him. He made up a phantom injury diagnosed one year after the fact to excuse himself and everything, but the reality is whatever faults he wanna put on that team, that year everything was clicking except for him. And he was supposed to be really important, we gave away young Bledsoe to get his fat ass. And he sucked like few players I've ever seen relative to expectations. And he's still talking about how it was everyone else's fault. Ok Jared.

I hated him and his game from the first preseason game. But it never occurred to me that he lied about the injury. I remember Barnes not being ready and Dudley playing through his own injuries because we needed him.

But if that part's a lie too, then the man is irredeemable.

[og15]

Undiagnosed or missed injuries happen, but whose fault was it that Dudley was overweight? Was the team force feeding him food? One simple and easy way he could have helped his season and maybe even kept himself on the team was to slim down to SF weight, not remain at PF weight. So whose fault was that? How does Dudley who was with that group for one season (a group that was together for 6 seasons) somehow seem to know so much and have all the final conclusions about them?

[esqtvd]

Undiagnosed or missed injuries happen, but whose fault was it that Dudley was overweight? Was the team force feeding him food? One simple and easy way he could have helped his season and maybe even kept himself on the team was to slim down to SF weight, not remain at PF weight. So whose fault was that? How does Dudley who was with that group for one season (a group that was together for 6 seasons) somehow seem to know so much and have all the final conclusions about them?

To me, Dudley's lone saving grace was playing through injury when the team desperately needed him. If that's a lie, there goes his last saving grace.

[QRich3]

It being a lie is just my interpretation of it, but think about it, he only came up with it after being traded, and according to his version of the story, he was traded to the Bucks, who immediately diagnosed him with a broken leg (!) that he had been playing through for a year, and it magically healed after a week or two of rest in the offseason. The Bucks didn't ever talk publicly about that injury either IIRC, the only info we have about that injury is Dudley talking about it himself.

Funny thing is I used to get in arguments here with most posters who constantly criticized Dudley when he was here, and I was asking for patience with him cause he was supposed to be exactly what this team needed, and surely had to end up being important. If he was even 50% of what he was supposed to be, the Clippers might've had a title right now. And he's still making noise about how everything was everyone's fault but him.