What's the deal with Sean Williams?

[RHODEY]

Rumor has it that you guys might be looking to move him. Why? Athelic shotblocking bigs dont grow on trees , so what gives? Is he THAT much of a headcase/attitude problem? Does he lack work ethic?

[EFF]

i dont really know the behind the scenes problems.

But on the court i know that Frank has zero tolerance for his rookie mistakes.
Sean does often lack court awareness most noticeably on defense. And as athletic as he is, if his mistakes are still glaring, then they must be pretty major. Problem is, he's not allowed to work through is mistakes. He loses an assignment, takes a dumb foul, frank pulls him immediately so obviously he's not getting much better. He was supposed to have had a productive training camp but apparently not productive enough.

Personally, given that we're rebuilding, i think now's a good time to start test driving him a but more unless frank is under the delusion that he's still competing for a championship.

[Serpo]

I don't think he deservers playing time over Yi , Lopez , Boone or Anderson and Najera right now . ( not 4 of the 5 guys i mentioned are young as well and all played plenty of minutes ) .

Besides his great shot blocking he doesn't bring much to the table .

[Birth of the Cool]

Sean supposedly had a great training camp. It didn't show in pre-season & he hasn't received any time the first two regular season games.

Look, Swift has played better than SWat from what I've seen during the pre-season and obviously the log jam in the frontcourt positions makes it even easier for Frank to bury SWat BUT the Nets just picked up SWat's option so they do feel he has a future w/ this team and even if they decided otherwise not giving him minutes just raises a red flag to other teams interested in him.

The best thing would obviously be for the Nets to trade their log-jammed frontcourt for some bench help in the backcourt or an upgrade at SF.

I thought this year was about letting youth develop. I'm a VC fan and of course I want to see playoffs for the Nets since you don't know how many more years of high level play VC has left but no matter how he plays this is still a rebuilding team so part of that is development of your young guys and before the all-star break last year SWat was a big part of that...do you give up on that kind of talent so early & right him off as a Swift player (tons of potential that likely won't be met) ? I think not.

To the OP - it could be various reasons - he seems to have laid back attitude (even professing in a interview that he doesn't do the shootarounds & etc before the game since he "do what he do") / he does have a knack for shotblocking but on the NBA level he gets caught trying to shotblock too much or overpowered in the block / he shows he does have a jumpshot & can finish w/ both hands last year but opposing frontcourt guys are already on to him & just muscle him out of his comfort zone where he ends up taking fade away jumpshots or ill-advised hooks...he came out blazing (no pun intended) but now people know his game he hasn't been able to adjust - but this year he still hasn't seen anytime during reg. season to see if he improved from the awful way he played post-all star break last year...I think Frank hinted he will get legit minutes vs Suns....

[Preludepunk27]

Granted it's early, but I think Thorn and Vince talking up Sean could have possibly been smoke and mirrors. Thorn is the best in the business at that. Maybe they we trying to move him before the season started and talking him up could potentially land someone decent. If this becomes a distraction (because I don't really think it's at that level yet) his value is gonna go way down for us.

My gut feeling is that he's lazy. He was lazy in college too. Realized that everyone the Nets brought in this offseason work their tails off day in and day out. There isn't a guy on this roster that I would say is a slacker. I'm assuming he saw the writing on the wall and figured "Hey I still have some value around the league, maybe if they decline my option, I could get a deal like Blatche or Amir Johnson or something. The pay isn't too shabby and if I start kicking ass, management will love me because I would be worth so much more than my contract." At least that's what I would be thinking if I was in Sean.

My suggestion would be for him to shut his mouth and play his heart out and ask to be traded. Then it's up to him to boost is stock so we can get him out of town...if that's what he really wants. I think this is being slightly blown out of proportion though.

[NetsForce]

I'm not sure how Williams fits in with the dribble-drive-offense. Williams can't play center as he proved last year (he should have been playing power forward anyway), and he's not a multi-dimensioal scorer like Yi, Anderson, or dare I say Najera...

[DrM]

It's a no-win situation for Sean. By asking Thorn not to pick his option - he is willing to take a risk of forgoing the guaranteed year vs having a chance for a fresh start one year earlier. There is got to be another team who is interested in him if it does not have to five up anything for get him.

[NetsForce]

It's good to see that Williams is still alive =D

[Preludepunk27]

Haha you make it sound like he had the baggage Zach Randolph had coming out of college. That guys high school coach said something like "every morning, if I read the papers and don't see he had gotten in trouble the night before, I know it was going to be a good day."

I have friends that lived in his dorm up at BC. He's just lazy and he grew weed in his closet.

Lazy? most definitely. But the above statement is not Sean.

[cavsfan_osiris]

Who says Sean Williams can't play center for the Knicks? Zach Randolph is starting at center right now, of course Sean Williams could play some minutes there for the Knicks. It's just a matter of where his game is right now. I haven't watched enough of him to know where he is offensively.