Hal14 wrote:Smart2Nesmith43 wrote:Riverwalk2021 wrote:Trade PP. The guy was openly complaining during the season when we are trying to win a championship. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
What exactly is the issue with Pritchard's statement ? He is a professional basketball player that wants to play professional basketball. It'd be more concerning if he didn't want to, to be honest.
Now sure if he had come out and said I'm better than White/Smart/Brogdon and I deserve more minutes that's a problem because it's both false and damaging to the locker room. But that's not what happened.
He could have just kept his mouth shut and played basketball.
Then, perhaps during the offseason (not right in the middle of the season) go to Brad privately (not publicly in the media) and ask for a trade.
People get mad when players just spew platitudes during interviews and want honest answers. When they get honest answers they get mad because they don't like those answers. I don't know what they are supposed to do. Only give honest answers when it aligns with the views of the entire fanbase ? Come on now.
Let's try this hypothetical. You are a young person fresh out of college trying to get established in your field so you can secure your financial future. You want to build on a fairly successful first year but during the second year management decides to bring someone more experienced and qualified to do your job (White) which means your responsabilities are reduced. Despite the disruption to your routine you slightly improve your performance level compared to your rookie season. Then at the end of that sophomore year, not only does the organization hire the person they hope is your long term replacement (Davison), they also bring in an experienced specialist (Brogdon) to pretty much make you redundant in the meantime.
Through no real fault of your own, you find yourself completely deprived of opportunities to perform the job you were hired to do and that you love doing. It's even gotten to the point that your role has been so scaled back that you are so rusty on the rare occasions you are called upon that your performance dropped off. People across the industry are starting to wonder what's going on and that's affecting your chances of finding employment elsewhere in that field.
Someone then asks your opinion on where your career is going. You:
a/ express what is fairly understandable frustration and hope for a quick resolution that will let you get your career back on track.
b/ wait a few months to privately talk to the management that has screwed you over at every turn (*) so they can help you find a spot elsewhere in the industry.
If anything, Pritchard, who didn't even express any ill will towards the front office or the people that were brought in to take over his job, showed more restraint than the majority of people would in his shoes.
(*) I don't think it was done intentionally by the Celtics. They were focused on bigger priorities than Pritchard development's but the end result is still that it tanked his career.
