BarneyGumble wrote:tocooks101 wrote:BarneyGumble wrote:
Its more like "Damn people now understand I am a paycheck player that can't back up his contract. Now I need to act like I care about winning and that it's somebody else's fault we suck and not my fault even though I am the highly paid veteran leaned on for leadership."
Lol I don't think anyone thinks that about GHIll, despite taking a questionable contract with the kings he is a 1st class guy across the board. He's one of Pop's favorite players for Christ sake, I don't think you can get a bigger compliment of character than that.
This whole thing looks way worse on the kings franchise than it does on HIll, HIll has had success everywhere he has gon,e the Kings have been a mess for a long time
Fair points but I think Hill's character has followed him around and might no longer represent reality. He was always a "character" guy because he wasnt anything else in terms of production. He had 2 great months in SLC and won player of the month and thought suddenly $80 million wasnt enough. That was a good team that offered it to him, a team that gave him his career highs across the board.
He turned that down, his play got worse, the "nagging injuries" got more frequent and dude was an overpay in an obvious way. Glad Utah didnt get stuck with him. Sad for George Hill that his market dried up fast but that's what happens when you become a paycheck player in the second half on your contract year.
Yeah its hard to say exactly who is out of line in these situations, maybe no way to know for sure.
But if you look at the history of the two sides: GHill, pretty much all his coaches and teammates rave about him, he has gone to the ECF, and made the playoffs every year he has been in the league except the year he and PG went down. Never complained never griped, never caused any issues.
You compare that to the past turmoil the Kings management has had the last 10 years? ..... Yeah ill take GHill's side on that one unless I seem something come out showing differently.
