Report: Jazz to let Jefferson Walk. Milsap & Watson got into it with Ty Corbin last season

[Stifle Tower]

Ok boss. THere is nothing stupid about it. I remember Millsap saying he was a starter. Did you get your opinion from MIllsap or our you just creating a stupid rumor about him not liking the offense run through AJ?

I remember something similar but it may have been along the lines of him saying he preferred to start. I'm sure there are other articles besides this one that address the starter vs. backup role:
https://www.deseretnews.com/article...orried-about-finishes-than-starts.html?pg=all

 

[Revolution 9]

I remember something similar but it may have been along the lines of him saying he preferred to start. I'm sure there are other articles besides this one that address the starter vs. backup role:
https://www.deseretnews.com/article...orried-about-finishes-than-starts.html?pg=all

This is what I recall as well

 

[Gameface]

Misremember? Pretty sure he never said that.

No, I remember it like it was yesterday, Carlos Millsap said "I'm a starter, regardless"

 

[franklin]

Well I was in a rush, and kind of lept to Burks without filling in. Let me explain:

A post game interview with Watson just before All-star break . They asked him about Alec Burks recent good play. Watsons comments were something to the effect of "I told him to keep playing his games the way he knew how to play and don't let everyone tell him how he should play or try to hold him back." Continuing he said "I knew he could play given a chance"

If you remember Burks was not playing alot to start the season. The quietly spoken explanation was that he wasn't taking coaching or wasn't doing what Corbin wanted him to do. Then all of a sudden he bursts on the scene just before the break when everyone is injured. At the same time there are rumours of the Jazz trading Burks to Minny for Luke Ridinour and somewhere in there is Watson saying he told Burks to stop listening to people (coaches?) who were telling him how to play. And then Watson again at locker clean out saying that there were players who would leave the Jazz and have fabulous careers and people would be suprised by how great they were.

You're making a whole lot of leaps in logic based on a few snippets and Ridnour-for-Burks RUMOR (that everyone here knew was b.s.).

But cool story, bro.

 

[franklin]

Misremember? Pretty sure he never said that.

He said it and we had one hundred threads with the typical insinuating to death over nothing. The media asked him every which way possible if he thought he should come of the bench. Millsap would only answer "I'm a starter" several times.

We boiled it down to good on him for having a fighting mentality.

 

[franklin]

Here it is:

Millsap made it clear he has no intentions on becoming a Sixth Man Award candidate, even if some believe he'd help the Jazz more off the bench.

"I'm a starter. I'm going to start," Millsap insisted. "I'm going to go out there and give everything I've got."

https://www.deseretnews.com/article...er-their-plethora-of-post-players.html?pg=all

It wasn't just an article either, Millsap said it in front of camera.

 

[zman1527]

HR manager at my previous job was like Corbin. His job was to piss off the employees the company wanted to let go, with the intent of having them quit vs. the company doing layoffs. Corbin is doing a helluva job in this respect. Jazz would be in an awkward position with some fans if they had Jefferson, Millsap, Foye, Mo, etc. talking about how badly they wanted to return to the team. Now, when they sign elsewhere, Lindsey and KOC can trot out that time-worn line about how the team wanted them back, but the players tested the market and got offers the Jazz thought were too high.

And Corbin did what to p/o BA and Sap? Start them all season long, regardless of their output or better talent on the bench? Don't think so. Everything I heard for Ty was that he was huge fan of Big Al.

 

[honz]

No, I remember it like it was yesterday, Carlos Millsap said "I'm a starter, regardless"

I remember this as well. Sorry GVC.

 

[GVC]

Fair enough, although it's worth noting that the quote was from before the 11/12 season. Millsap came off the bench the first two games of the season, playing quite well while the starters struggled.