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Headband Ban To End

fishonjazz said:
Fine.
Big dog Carr and his glasses.

Fesenko and his wristbands.

The point here is that it's untrue that they all wore everything the same. That it was everyone or no one. There were exceptions.
It was a stupid rule


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Carr had a medical reason to wear glasses. "Carr suffered a lacerated eyeball that prevented his retina from adjusting to light normally and resulted in headaches. As a result, Carr began wearing his trademark sunglasses..." Pretty hard to tell a guy with a bum eye that he can't wear glasses because nobody else does.

The wristbands is all you've got. Malone wore wristbands for a good portion of his career as well. Not sure why Sloan felt they were acceptable.
 
Scat said:
Carr had a medical reason to wear glasses. "Carr suffered a lacerated eyeball that prevented his retina from adjusting to light normally and resulted in headaches. As a result, Carr began wearing his trademark sunglasses..." Pretty hard to tell a guy with a bum eye that he can't wear glasses because nobody else does.

The wristbands is all you've got. Malone wore wristbands for a good portion of his career as well. Not sure why Sloan felt they were acceptable.
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Because people ****ing sweat. Which is the point of this entire thing.
 
Kyoto said:
I'm not sure that's true. There were only a couple of players in the league that actually wore a headband before the early 2000s. Cliff Robinson is the only player that comes to mind but I'm sure there were others. Out of 450ish players in the league and only a couple wore a headband would suggest that players didnt want to wear them, so no need for a rule

It's like, having traffic signs when the model-t was invented. There wasnt a need for it

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Actually, players were wearing headbands as early as the 60’s-70’s then players for the most part stopped wearing them in the 90’s. Sloan outlawed them the moment he took the coaching job.
 
Kyoto said:
Sloan outlawed them when people weren't wanting to wear them? That doesn't make sense

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Sloan took over in the 80’s and he didn’t outright ban them. It was either everyone wears them or no one wears them as a togetherness thing.

https://www.slcdunk.com/reader-poll...-history-is-it-time-to-ditch-the-headband-ban

Don’t let yer butt cheeks flap unchecked. Get yer facts right next time, before you sound like an idiot.
 
Kyoto said:
I'm not sure that's true. There were only a couple of players in the league that actually wore a headband before the early 2000s. Cliff Robinson is the only player that comes to mind but I'm sure there were others. Out of 450ish players in the league and only a couple wore a headband would suggest that players didnt want to wear them, so no need for a rule

It's like, having traffic signs when the model-t was invented. There wasnt a need for it

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There were a couple of scrubs back in the day that wore them. Patrick Ewing, Bill Walton & Wilt Chamberlain all come to mind.
 
Scat said:
Carr had a medical reason to wear glasses. "Carr suffered a lacerated eyeball that prevented his retina from adjusting to light normally and resulted in headaches. As a result, Carr began wearing his trademark sunglasses..." Pretty hard to tell a guy with a bum eye that he can't wear glasses because nobody else does.

The wristbands is all you've got. Malone wore wristbands for a good portion of his career as well. Not sure why Sloan felt they were acceptable.
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The wristbands is all I need

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Kyoto said:
Oh I agree with you that he was great with that team that was lead by kirilenko and Harpring. I never said he was a bad coach or a mediocre coach, but he wasnt a great coach.

He wouldnt ever call a play for a 3 pointer

He wouldnt make an adjustment on the court

He would make his substitutions like clockwork no matter how x player was performing

He wouldnt ever call a timeout when a team was starting to make a run, he would wait until it was like a 12-0 run before a timeout

He wouldnt let his point guards call plays

He ruined AK47

Refs DID NOT like him and I'm sure would sway calls because of it

A lot of players did not want to play for him

Did not ever make an adjustment when the league allowed zone defense

I think people have mistaken the toughness and intensity that he brought to the game as coaching IQ. He was a good coach, he belongs in the hall of fame (because of his record and longevity), but he wasnt a great coach.

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Yeah, you never watched Sloan coach.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
Jerry outlawed them long before the 2000’s LMAO
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I believe Layden did, actually. Sloan simply left up to the team as a whole. All or nothing basically, but he never banned them outright. Fact: The team never wore black sneakers because of Ostertag.

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https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4664380&itype=NGPSID

"I wanted to wear them, but we couldn't get everybody to wear them with Tag being here," Williams said of his stubborn ex-teammate, Greg Ostertag. "He didn't want to wear them. Matt [Harpring] didn't really want to. Memo [Okur] didn't. But 'now" we just said, 'We don't care.' "
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Scat said:
There were a couple of scrubs back in the day that wore them. Patrick Ewing, Bill Walton & Wilt Chamberlain all come to mind.
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Oh of course they did, I was more or less talking about the 90s when it was only worn by a couple of people. Dr j wore one and a lot of people did in the 70s and early 80s

Edit... Ewing didnt wear a headband
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