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Deron lumping himself in the same breath and kobe and lebron

Deron is great. If he came back to Utah everyone here would love him again. People started to hate him because he had a poor year due to his wrist and the acquisition of Big Al (no one to run P&R with). All I hear is a bunch of sour grapes.
 
I, for one, was never high on his;

- Leadership qualities
- First step
- Me

Having said that, I'd welcomehim with open arms and open wallet.
 
Yeah, he isn't the best leader in the world, but what did he have to work with? Two big men who were allergic to defense, and a handful of extremely flawed wing players. I thought for the most part he did a pretty good job. He had one off year (both mentally and in his game) and now everyone is calling him a selfish prick who only cares about himself.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Yeah, he isn't the best leader in the world, but what did he have to work with? Two big men who were allergic to defense, and a handful of extremely flawed wing players. I thought for the most part he did a pretty good job. He had one off year (both mentally and in his game) and now everyone is calling him a selfish prick who only cares about himself.
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Good post, seriously. Except I think he has an innate leadership flaw.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Yeah, he isn't the best leader in the world, but what did he have to work with? Two big men who were allergic to defense, . . .
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and a coach who was allergic to enforcing defense, although he was willing to preach it . . .

(Contrast that to Rick Carlisle, who was available recently for the Jazz to sign if they had dropped Sloan sooner instead of blindly standing by him, and who actually got "Allas" to bring back the "D". And now RC (and MC (Mark Cuban), too) has a ring for it.

Another contrast: Tom Thibodeau, who was also available and put the "D" back in "(D)a Bulls", resulting in home court advantage in the playoffs while Tyrone Corbin--no "D" there--was fishing.)
 
InGameStrategy said:
and a coach who was allergic to enforcing defense, although he was willing to preach it . . .

(Contrast that to Rick Carlisle, who was available recently for the Jazz to sign if they had dropped Sloan sooner instead of blindly standing by him, and who actually got "Allas" to bring back the "D". And now RC (and MC (Mark Cuban), too) has a ring for it.

Another contrast: Tom Thibodeau, who was also available and put the "D" back in "(D)a Bulls", resulting in home court advantage in the playoffs while Tyrone Corbin--no "D" there--was fishing.)
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You're way out of line here. Why would we ever want one of the best defensive minds in the game in either Thibodeau or Carlisle? That makes no sense.
 
spycam1 said:
Yeah, glad we got rid of him, and more importantly, loving what we got in return.
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What the hell? How are you already "loving" what we got in return? Devin Harris was terrible (and a bad fit for the system, too), and Favors and Kanter are two completely unproven wild cards at this point. This just proves the blatant lack of perspective of so many people on these boards. If the package we got ultimately works out, that's fantastic - but rushing to judgment as if the pieces we got in exchange for Deron are already panning out and proving their worth is simply delusional. What we've gotten in return is, at present, absolutely nothing. We traded for potential, theoretical future success, and as of right now it's still just potential, and still just theoretical. We'll see.
 
Oh, and for the record, OP, Deron never said "I'm as good as LeBron and/or Kobe." In any case, it would be perfectly fair for a top-10 player (which Deron is) to lump himself in with two other top-10 players.
 
Deron is without question a top 10 player when healthy, we'll see how his wrist feels next season(when it does finally start).
 
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