09-07-2023, 11:59 PM
(09-07-2023, 11:15 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Because a dude whose reputation of being a locker room cancer and selfish attitude living right up to his reputation shows he hasn't learned (or even begun to understand) the reasons why literally no team wanted to offer more than a minimum contract this summer despite him being 1 of very few bigs in the league to average 20/10 as a starter on 52/36/77. If he did, his first public appearance wouldn't be throwing shade at his former team for not giving him an "opportunity", which to me screams a level of delusion its on the verge of comedy. Especially because the team he's heading to he's most certainly going to average less than 26mpg than he had here, and will be a bench player behind at least 3 guys.
And while we can argue over and over again the merits of whether or not Wood ever actually got a fair shot here, 2 things can be true at once:
1) Wood had all the opportunity in Dallas for a team starved for big man talent. But he didn't do the things that was asked of him to get on the court.
2) Jason Kidd made a menial effort in trying to make Wood work here going so far as to significantly reduce his role when it became apparent he couldn't boost his trade value halfway into the season.
The writing has been on the wall. Time and again a team has elected to not bring Wood back despite his flashes of talent, why do we think that is?
There's zero evidence of what you assert here, except the market that dried up for him. Kidd has the reputation for borderline behavior, dating back to college, not Wood. Let's revisit this topic at the TDL and see which of us is right.