Kirilenko Continued…
It seems the Jazz don’t really care what Kirilenko says on the topic they are expecting him to live up to his contract and show up when training camp starts. The Jazz can expect it all they want but it doesn’t mean he’ll play hard at all. He is and will more and more of a team cancer as the season gets closer to beginning.
In a recent radio interview that is now an article in the Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_6970226, Deron Williams clearly stated that Kirilenko doesn’t work as hard as the other players and if he had the choice to pass between Kirilenko or Matt Harpring then the choice was obvious.
It’s a good article for anyone who has an opinion on the subject. My opinion remains strong to get rid of the guy as soon as you can before you lose more leverage in the deal. If the Jazz are serious about trading him then get it done because the back and forth is just beginning. Now that Deron Williams has called him out Kirilenko will more than likely come back with a jab and with each comment the Jazz are more and more forced to deal him.
I won’t write another separate blog on this for a while, any updates will just be additions.
September 24th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I want to know who the dumb crap is that calls himself Andrei’s agent. That person should be fired. The Jazz have been trying to trade this stick of a russian from about the middle of last season. Someone needs to take Andrei and his moron agent aside and say, look the best way out of here is to become an all star again. You’re paid like an all star so the only way we can trade you is to play like one again. IT’ll only take 20 games. Even the biggest baby idiots could fake happy for a couple months for $63 million.
Which brings me to my next rant. Who in the hell came up with the idea that guaranteed money was a good idea? Why, why, why???? This would all go away if the Jazz held a card that said, oh you don’t want to play like a $63 million man then we’ll pay you $5 million. It drives me nuts that morons like this get so much money and then it’s not good enough. I wonder how many people play the game for the love anymore. Do pro’s even care if they win or lose? Crap just typing this makes me angry. Sorry to get off subject.
Shake and Bake
September 28th, 2007 at 12:49 am
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
–Harry S. Truman
Both Lenko and Shawn Marion have been portrayed in the past years as good guys who are leaders on their teams….and now we find out they are only interested in being a good teammate when they are the first option in the offense….Can you imagine how good their teams would be if they would step up and fill the defensive specialist role that would put their teams over the top? Their teams are actually contenders now, and they both said the past year was too rough for them….
October 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Kirilenko is reporting to Jazz camp and doesn’t want to talk about being traded. THEN DON’T COME OUT AND MAKE IT A BIG DEAL. Amazing to me. So many players go about this the right way and handle it more professional. I’m sure we’ll keep this going in the coming weeks.