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Paul Pierce: Deron Williams doesn't want to be the guy

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"I'm much happier,'' he said. "It was a tough situation (in Brooklyn) last year. Horrible, really.

"It was just the guys' attitudes there. It wasn't like we were surrounded by a bunch of young guys. They were vets who didn't want to play and didn't want to practice. I was looking around saying, 'What's this?' Kevin (Garnett) and I had to pick them up every day in practice.

"If me and Kevin weren't there, that team would have folded up. That team would have packed it in. We kept them going each and every day.''

The player that puzzled him the most, said Pierce, was point guard Deron Williams.

"Before I got there, I looked at Deron as an MVP candidate,'' Pierce said. "But I felt once we got there, that's not what he wanted to be. He just didn't want that.

"I think a lot of the pressure got to him sometimes. This was his first time in the national spotlight. The media in Utah is not the same as the media in New York, so that can wear on some people. I think it really affected him.''

"There's a lot of secondary guys on that team. KG and I went there looking at them as the main guys who would push us, because we were advancing in years. But we ended up doing all the pushing.''
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This is what Pierce said is the problem with Otto Porter:

"Otto is another one who just doesn't understand how good he is,'' Pierce said. "He can shoot, he's a slasher, he can defend, I'm just not sure how badly he wants it every day.

"That kid just needs to get mad. If he came to practice ticked off and to the games ticked off, he'd be fine. But it's hard to get Otto mad. I should punch him one day just to get him riled up.''
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If the Nets amnesty him, I wouldn't be opposed to offering him around mid-level exception money...
 
ONE LOVE said:
LOL .. you want a disgruntled former employ who doesn't practice on our young team??!!??!!
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I wanna see Hayward throw a ball at him for not doing his job and Quin giving him thumbs up in approval.
 
ONE LOVE said:
LOL .. you want a disgruntled former employ who doesn't practice on our young team??!!??!!
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who loves and lives in Utah (would bring back the motivation), would be the ultimate PnR mentor to Dante, and who led this team farther than anyone not named Stock or Malone. For the right price, I see the appeal.
 
No Deron. No way. No how.
 
stitches said:
If the Nets amnesty him, I wouldn't be opposed to offering him around mid-level exception money...
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Pretty sure they already used it on Travis Outlaw, and even if they hadn't, I think Deron signed his latest contract too late to be eligible.
 
VINYLONE said:
Jazz fans love talking about the past....love it.

Onwards and upwards.
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He can suck the opposing vector of the contact and put 50% more points to the position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p90nC0607YA
 
addictionary said:
Oh well. Somethings never got forgotten I guess. But I would love to see him up there. But I wouldn't now that he might steal away from Bryce Cotton's minutes.
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I just don't see what he brings that would really help us right now that wouldn't be offset by that attitude. I think he would do more damage than good, and by the time our guys hit their real stride in 3 years or so and we are chasing championships he will be old and broken down. I think we are better off looking elsewhere regardless of price.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I just don't see what he brings that would really help us right now that wouldn't be offset by that attitude. I think he would do more damage than good, and by the time our guys hit their real stride in 3 years or so and we are chasing championships he will be old and broken down. I think we are better off looking elsewhere regardless of price.
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I think you are over-stating his "attitude". He just doesn't deal well with media and that is all you get in NYC. He needs to be home in Utah.

Imagine Favors/Dwill pick n rolls.
 
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