Brooklyn Nets star
point guard Deron Williams has been labeled a “Coach Killer” and he wants that title
off of his resume. Sorry to tell you D-Will but this will follow you for your
whole basketball career and after that. When he played in Utah for the Jazz
under legendary Jerry Sloan, he ran him out of town.
This is not how you
treat a coach that has been with the organization for over 20 years and has
been successful; also the same man that put the ball in your hands and told you
to take this team to the promise land.It’s very surprising to me that Williams is a coach killer. I would have never thought that about a point guard that I regard as one of the most talented players in his class. But I guess if Magic Johnson did this in his heyday we shouldn’t be surprised.
It has been said that
the most talented players love to be in control and their egos are to the roof.
D-Will made sure that if he didn’t like what you were doing as a coach he would
let everyone know from the locker room to the media. This isn’t how you deal
with your frustration. I believe that most things should stay in-house.
You have Jerry Sloan
put to his misery by Williams and when the guard was traded to the now Brooklyn
Nets he was dissatisfied with former coach Avery Johnson’s offense and spoke
out about it to the public. So of course Johnson is going to get the ax when you
have a franchise player that’s paid over $95 million for the life of his
contract, nobody is safe!
Hopefully Williams will
get his act together and just focus on basketball. He has a lot to worry about
this season as trying to get his newly revamped team to compete at a high level
in the Eastern Conference.
We’re all going to be
watching to see if newly coach Jason Kidd and Deron Williams can co-exist for
the long run.
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