Arthur: Lowry didn't want to re-sign here if Casey retained

[TdotForLife]

Come on now. All you guys were bashing Casey like no other day and now u got his back. Lowry was completely right from the beginning. Casey needed to be fired cause look what hes done this season. Nothing but holding back this team.

[TdotForLife]

Wait...people are upset that Lowry doesn't like Casey?!

Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black?

So 98% of this board talks constant sh*t about Casey inability to coach but when a guy who actually plays professionally for that inept coach is frustrated we say something is wrong with him???

You do realize this is his job right??? This is like you hating your boss because he's a complete idiot that is running the company into the ground because he stubbornly believes his way makes sense meanwhile the company is headed to bankruptcy. But when you point that out we say you just have an attitude problem and the solution is to fire you yet you're best producing employee his company has. Yeah that should get things back on track!

Great reasoning boys, you guys don't miss a beat.

Thank you. I have no idea why these users are mad at Lowry. I swear on every thread there's always some **** talking about Casey and now everyone is being hypocritical about it.

[carlosey]

Lowry basically gave enough of an excuse for Casey to remain the teams coach. This issue has been brewing internally for a while and this could explain why Masai so quickly sided with Casey. How are you going to be able to produce results when your players are toxic, specially your main all star who came off a contract year? If you want to blame anyone for the retention of Casey is lowry.

I don't buy this at all. Lowry was a FA and Casey was up for renewal, so Masai had options on both. He has been hammering to anyone and everyone about the importance of team chemistry and yet decided to bid $48M to retain Lowry and then re-signed Casey. So if this issue has been "brewing internally for a while," then Masai was either clueless or a liar about the high importance of team chemistry.

I said last year here about Lowry that a leopard cannot change its spots. Lowry's issues were known but I said he was keeping his attitude in check in a contract year because he wants to be paid. I even said his agent was probably calling him every week to remind to keep his trap shut. So if Masai believed that Lowry would change his stripes and made peace with Casey, then he's a fool.

Talk about fool, if your claim that "Lowry basically gave enough of an excuse for Casey to remain the teams [sic] coach" is true, then that's even more foolish. A GM has a mandate to get value for money and giving Casey a 3-yr contract to show Lowry he sided with Casey is certainly contrary to that mandate. The only reason Masai re-signed Casey was because he thought Casey was best to do the job. What Lowry did or didn't do is irrelevant to Masai's decision to re-sign Casey.

What is there to buy? Its obvious that Masai would know about the internal politics as they happen. Lowry didnt turn into an **** overnight so there had to be some internal friction happening for some time.

the point is that lowry right now has put in a position where firing casey would not be in the fairest of terms. Again, how can you produce results when your main guy is toxic? Im not Casey fan, but thanks to lowry the solution now its not a clear coach removal. As a matter of fact, Im willing to bet that the fans wont accept lowry and he wont be a raptor perhaps even opening night.