How have unprofessional players screwed over your team?

[Jasper]

Bucks : not an unprofessional player (A COACH)

Skiles -

Letting Jennings for the last 2 years to take shoots while 44% shooters sit camped on the wing waiting for a pass that will never happen , unless Jennings gets trapped with 3 seconds left on the shot clock.

Skiles was a PG , first option pass .... can't teach the same fundamentals

[Kurosawa0]

I accept your admission of defeat.

[Sarcastic]

Look if you're not satisfied with how your player is playing, contract year or no contract year you bench him and tell him why. As it is now a lot of players in their contract year play harder, and not necessarily more selfish in a way that is hurtful to the team.

It's just not one or the other, there are also players now who play just as hard in their contract year as they do in other years. Just like some would play more selfish and others wouldn't. The difference is that if you have a guy who's playing selfish at the end of his contract you can bench him easier than if you have a guy playing lazy in the start of a 5 year deal.
It's also about players sitting out games because they're secured in their deal, like Baron Davis who all of the sudden felt like playing 82 in his contract year. It's about players being overweight and not caring because the money is still rolling in.


Concerning you bias I can't forget about that gross vs net argument you made. Like the other poster said, it's impossible for anyone to be more biased.

How many players do you think would ever dive for a ball, or do something that may injure themselves if they are always playing for new contracts?

[ZenMaster]

How many players do you think would ever dive for a ball, or do something that may injure themselves if they are always playing for new contracts?

It depends on if that player wants a new contract that's based on him playing and contributing, or if it should be based on him sitting on the bench.

Teams will sign good players if they play hard, injured or not.

Also if the guaranteed contracts where no longer than 3 years they wouldn't always be playing for a new contract.

[stephanieg]

Everyone knows about Artest going into the crowd and ruining the season + Reggie's last chance at a title, maybe they know about Stephen Jackson shooting a gun in the parking lot of a strip club (Bill Simmons used to joke about it a lot). But not many outside of Indy seem to remember Tinsley and his crew being in a car chase right out of a movie. A guy was shooting at them with an assault rifle. I don't know why that wasn't a bigger story. But seriously...something that ****ed up could only happen to dumbasses like Tinsley and Capt Jack.

[Meticode]

We could start with Larry Hughes...

No you can't Larry Hughes' downfall is the way the Cavaliers used him. It was evident the first few weeks they played together with LeBron how much getting Larry Hughes was going to fail.

[Sarcastic]

No you can't Larry Hughes' downfall is the way the Cavaliers used him. It was evident the first few weeks they played together with LeBron how much getting Larry Hughes was going to fail.

Which is exactly why using stats as a basis for determining effort is misleading.

Hell, all of the Miami cHeat saw their stats go down last year after getting their new contracts. Do you think the reason was lack of effort, or more to do with lack of chemistry?

[PistonsFan#21]

My team: Detroit Pistons

Player that screwed us: Allen '' i wanna be the main guy" Iverson
i dont think this needs any explanation. This is the point from where he went downhill

[InspiredLebowski]

Everyone knows about Artest going into the crowd and ruining the season + Reggie's last chance at a title, maybe they know about Stephen Jackson shooting a gun in the parking lot of a strip club (Bill Simmons used to joke about it a lot). But not many outside of Indy seem to remember Tinsley and his crew being in a car chase right out of a movie. A guy was shooting at them with an assault rifle. I don't know why that wasn't a bigger story. But seriously...something that ****ed up could only happen to dumbasses like Tinsley and Capt Jack.

That's Indy's fault though. If he'd gotten in a blocks long mobile shootout with automatic weapons in a major market it barely would have made the news. Just ask Jamaal.

[longtime lurker]

You guys make me laugh. If a guy is overpaid to begin with, what do you expect when he doesn't live up to the contract?