*Rudy carried a team that was 19-28 in January (and non-playoff team) to one of the best regular season finishes ever when he came back from injury……is what I think you meant to say.
As for being liked, yes he’s so liked by his peers in player voting he came in 9th in the west for guards in votes from players in All Star voting, lower than he finished with media or even fans. As for it being for show. Spence Checketts today: “I’ve been told Donovan’s kind of a robot, CAA tells him what to say and he goes out there and says it.” So yes when Hayward left, a kid who grew up inside the Mets organization and was tailored for professional sports with CAA writing the script new exactly what to say those first couple years…..funny he won’t say any of that anymore.
As for racist, let me be very clear, I support much of the causes he stands for, but people disagreeing on certain things with him doesn’t make them a racist. He is not an all knowing being. He ain’t God, and frankly in this podcast when he’s sitting there acting like he’s dropping knowledge and some are just too resistant or dumb (or “racist”) to get it is frankly disgusting as well. We gotta throw a label on anyone who thinks differently than us these days and “racist” and “socialist” seem to be the easiest stones to throw. A lot of people need to grow the **** up when discussing serious issues, of which this and basketball is not.
So do tell me, when we made it no farther than the 2nd round when this iteration of the Jazz is done what exactly did we gain from it? We’d have been better off in a rebuild than kicking it down the road 5 years and making the 2nd round once. He has and will accomplish no more here than Hayward and will bounce sooner.
