Rodney Hood Refuses to Enter Game in Garbage Time
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vegas
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Great points in the last few posts. It's human nature to vindicate that the Jazz made the right trade. I hope he turns things around. I always liked hood.
I do think the risk management of injuries in the NBA is a problem. Certain players play through everything. Others take every chance to preserve their body and prolong their career. It's not possible to know what another human being is really experiencing at any given moment, but the NBA certainly has a growing problem there.
I don't know where Hood lies on that spectrum tho, but he does have chronic lingering issues one way or another.
I do think the risk management of injuries in the NBA is a problem. Certain players play through everything. Others take every chance to preserve their body and prolong their career. It's not possible to know what another human being is really experiencing at any given moment, but the NBA certainly has a growing problem there.
I don't know where Hood lies on that spectrum tho, but he does have chronic lingering issues one way or another.
Donovan did not come into this season expecting to be a primary scorer for any team, let alone a playoff team. He is learning on the fly and one thing he has shown is that he learns quickly and learns deeply. I don't think he wants to be a high volume low efficiency scorer. But he was being asked to put points on the board and to basically just keep creating offense regardless.
I'm guessing the FO and Snyder will work with DM on a game plan, very possibly along with some roster additions, to get him higher quality shots more often next year.
Donovan wasn't sure he'd have an opportunity to take 4 shots a game going into the season...
The Jazz Wonderbra
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I liked the Rodney Hood who showed up and won fourth quarters for us with incredible shooting. Everyone looks worse in Cleveland. Rodney would probably not be too thrilled about coming back to SLC a second time but if he was I would take him. He would just have a smaller role here. With the right attitude and a little more health and consistency he could be amazing here. If his market value is really low, then why not?
Rodney Hood
@ $22 million/year INSANITY (but that's what he was thinking last year)
@ $18 million/year DESPERATION
@ $15 million/year (Not sure anyone pays this in the current market)
@ $12 million/year Decent Value
@ $8 million/year STEAL!!!
Where does he fall given the last 12 months and given the lack of teams with $$$ to spend? I really don't have a clue.
I agree
Isn't there like a 1 year moratorium or something like that that says a team cannot immediately sign a player that they traded away?
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Yes, there is: http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q101
- A team cannot reacquire a player it traded away during the same season (a season for this purpose being defined as starting on the first day of the regular season and ending on the last day of the Finals). If the player was traded between seasons (i.e., from the first day after the Finals to the last day prior to the start of the next regular season), it cannot reacquire the player prior to the end of the next season. If he is waived by his new team, then he cannot re-sign with his original team until the one-year anniversary of the trade, or until the July 1 following the end of his contract, whichever comes first6. However, if a team trades a player's draft rights, it can reacquire the player during the same season.
Hood missed like parts of 2 or 3 games with the nervous indigestion issue. Let's not over blow what that is. A lot of performers get that. I dont think the nerves get to him that badly in a game, but I'm sure the pressure weighs down on him throughout the season.
My theory has always been that the day he scored 30 on Kobe Bryant in the first half of that Laker's blowout he changed. That was his 2nd year, the year everyone got really excited about him. Then he got injured a lot in his 3rd year and eventually got replaced in the starting lineup by Ingles. Judging by his exit interview he was really salty about that. I think that kind of transformed his attitude and he just became an out and out selfish score first type player.
My theory has always been that the day he scored 30 on Kobe Bryant in the first half of that Laker's blowout he changed. That was his 2nd year, the year everyone got really excited about him. Then he got injured a lot in his 3rd year and eventually got replaced in the starting lineup by Ingles. Judging by his exit interview he was really salty about that. I think that kind of transformed his attitude and he just became an out and out selfish score first type player.
Dude, he isnt coming to Utah.
Miggs
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Miggs
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Lmfao. Now confirmed you are a troll.
The funny thing is that he could possibly get a championship ring this year. In his elderly years, no one would remember his role on the team, and he would always have bragging rights about playing with Lebron during a championship year.
(I don't believe the Cavs will win it all, though)
(I don't believe the Cavs will win it all, though)
It’s just as insane every time I see that video. I remember watching it before Donovan was drafted and loved him but didn’t know much about him. Neither he nor us knew just how much he would simply take over the franchise and fanbase like no player in a long time. By the end of summer league it was obvious we had a special kid with a great personality and attitude, by early December it was becoming obvious we had something even more, now we can’t and don’t want to imagine life without him. What an insane change for both sides in a year since that video.