Agreed. I'm certainly not calling for a moratorium on criticism or second guessing. I'm agreeing with DBMH that people do seem to pigpile on some and not others when they fall. Tbb makes a good point that Grant brings some of that with his verbosity. I think that it's "see I was right about that guy" for some people/players. It's hard getting past our own preconceived notions sometimes.
Anything is possible, but I agree, if he was held out for injury reasons it seems odd to withhold that information for many reasons.
This thread has gone down a weird rabbit hole but I legitimately think that everyone on this board is rooting for Grant to be the best possible player he can be. I actually have 0 doubts about that.
This is a messageboard and people can discuss whatever they want, subject to community rules.
100% agree. I've rebooted many a stance with the mea culpa. Changing a preconceived notion can be a poster's best friend.
Honest question, where have you seen people take pleasure in his struggles? I am on this board a lot and I can’t think of anyone posting anything thats like a celebration of him sucking
We don't need to get into a debate on how I perceive the tone in others posts beyond my initial thoughts- it really has nothing to do with basketball. You don't agree with me and that's entirely fine. You may well be correct. FWIW, it wasn't @ anyone specific either.
I could wallpaper a forum in here with my mea culpas. I agree that evolution is good and was perhaps overly snarky about how we don't have enough of that (point taken, another possible growth opportunity).
I wanted to respond one more time to this and then i am going to leave it alone. I definitely don’t feel attacked (I would also hope no one else does either) I just think the idea that posters here are rooting for Grant to fail is pretty off base and I think it’s important to draw a distinction between criticizing a player and rooting for his failure.
Then didn’t hustle back on defense, layup ensured, and Blake lit into him. Grant responded by…..jacking up and missing another 3.
It was almost like everyone was in on it, though. JD seemed to pull up and make sure to get it to Grant for his last three.
I think their biggest threat here is that there aren't going to be many good players in this years FA market, and two of the teams that have money to spend have guys in a GM or head coach position (Utah/Houston) that Grant Williams has already performed well for.
With the new CBA, I think that Grant is allowed to walk and his minutes are penciled in for Hauser.
My guess as just another rando fan who has no insight into locker room or coach-player dynamics is that Grant is allowed to walk because Mazzulla (if he is retrained) seems to have issues with him based on his playing time down the stretch.
While not the same level of defender, Gallinari could also assume the role of floor spacer and small ball five.
From an interview in today's Athletic
The headline of the article is that Grant is open to a return for whatever that's worth. The piece acknowledges that its tough given the how close the team is to the projected second apron.
Aren't they limited to like $6-$7 million before the second apron? I'm sure they'd be thrilled if Grant took that, but that seems unlikely to me.
