Stephen Jackson talks about being released

[weebo]

SJax career as an NBA player is ova. Maybe after the season is over TMAC can take Sjax over to China with him

[Blue Duck]

I really don't get all the love and remorse and pity being wasted on this guy. This team has had plenty of others whowere similarly bad, yet extremely likable in the sense that they gave it their all, never complained or whined off acted jealous over success of their own teammates, and those guys had a ton of hate heaped upon them on this board. Apparently, everyone loves SJAX, inbut would you really want him as your neighbor? And don't tell me he adds toughness to the team either. Watch our guys play, Manu, Timmy and TP are tough, they just don't need to draw attention to the fact or tweet about how they're going to assault someone on the court should a foul occur during the game. His bravado is all smoke and mirrors. And stop blaming Pop, he's held this team together for a long time and he hates cutting guys. This dude is just not spurs material. Bye.

[capek]

He had good intentions but there was a better way to handle it. Constant ing and moaning isn't the way to do it. You do it by playing well on the court. If he was playing better than the other guys in front of him Pop would play him more minutes. Just like the OKC series.

Anyway, take with a grain of salt as this is only one side of the story.

More like an inflated (to the point of delusion) sense of his current level of play.

[hater]

to be fair, jax was playing hard with the minutes he was given. It was unfortunate his shot was off and he was banged up.

[Strategic]

Jax epitaph: "the gangsta mentality did him in in the end"

Anybody can be replaced.

[Malice]

On court reputation will only get you so far. This is a "what have you done for me lately" league. And on paper, Jax had given us Jack . But, for the record I love the dude, and what he brought to the team as a leader....just a sad end to what I thought was a great final chapter in SA.

[Blue Duck]

When Manu plays bad, he says, " I'm playing bad". Not that difficult, is it?

[benefactor]

Anybody can be replaced.

Indeed. Tim Duncan better be glad he's never said anything like this. He ass would have gotten put on the bus and the Spurs would have just rolled with the next man up.

[Hoops Czar]

they are both stubborn s

Only one stubborn . Pop, for refusing to trade him at the deadline. At the very least, they could have traded for a backup pg or SF. No player should have to admit they are better or worse than a teammate and a coach shouldn't put their player on the spot like that. Is Pop 64 going on 15? What a ridiculous argument.

[Darius McCrary]

My Stephen Jackson Horry Treatment theory will never be validated now.

[HarlemHeat37]

Jackson's comments indicate that he's been unhappy with his role all year, wanting more minutes rather than just coasting, which was what all his fans claimed, tbh..

He's one of the worst players in the NBA and he's a locker room problem..Jackson is also going to initially refuse playing for the minimum, like Kenyon Martin did this season, but no team in the league will be foolish enough to sign him for more than that, if at all, tbh..we'll see if it humbles him, but even then, he is limited at this point..

[Poolboy5623]

Lots of great points in this thread...who was he thinking he was better than? Green or Leonard? My gut tells me that it became pretty clear kawhi was going to be playing mega mins and that leaves no time for jack. Or...pop told him green was better and thus would be getting backup Sf mins? Being Danny starts at the 2, I see this scenario unlikely. ...Jackson can't think he's better than kawhi???? Can he?

Also..either I'm super high or its super ironic for sj to say, "that just don't make no sense"...to me that means it would make sense. He should have said(if he was somewhat intelligent), "that just don't make sense?" Right?

[Poolboy5623]

I honestly saw sj as a ticking time bomb all season....I would tend to watch him a lot when he was in, even away from the ball. He would, often times, frantically flail his arms in disgust if he didn't get the ball for an open 3...as he just stood there and watched. I was pretty surprised he lasted as long as he did. His play was tough to watch as he was always the slowest guy on the court.

[Chinook]

Lots of great points in this thread...who was he thinking he was better than? Green or Leonard? My gut tells me that it became pretty clear kawhi was going to be playing mega mins and that leaves no time for jack. Or...pop told him green was better and thus would be getting backup Sf mins? Being Danny starts at the 2, I see this scenario unlikely. ...Jackson can't think he's better than kawhi???? Can he?

Also..either I'm super high or its super ironic for sj to say, "that just don't make no sense"...to me that means it would make sense. He should have said(if he was somewhat intelligent), "that just don't make sense?" Right?

So you call him out for negative concord, but subject-verb disagreement is all right with you? NC is a feature of quite a few English dialects. It's annoying, but not contradictory.

[SenorSpur]

My issue with Jack is that he KNEW his job would be that as of a role player when he came here - and yet Jack allows his ego to, once again, enter the equation. While I have my issues with some things Pop does, the one thing he is not is a bull artist. There is every reason to believe that he clearly and directly explained to Jack what was expected from him and what his role would be before the trade. It's certainly not the first time Jack talked his way off of an NBA team. However given his age and declining production, the Spurs may very well have been his last stop. Perhaps Jack should have a conversation with Allen Iverson and ask him how successful he's been trying to get back into the NBA after his leaving behind his trail of selfish behavior.

[jeebus]

lol his issues. he thinks he's the same player from years ago; I'm glad his ass is gone.

[thOOdee]

he should have taken all of bonner and blairs minutes

[Poolboy5623]

So you call him out for negative concord, but subject-verb disagreement is all right with you? NC is a feature of quite a few English dialects. It's annoying, but not contradictory.

Not sure what a subject-verb disagreement is...but I would have said, "that doesn't make sense."

[Poolboy5623]

Jackson will be playing over seas, next season(if he wants to play)....probably with Tmac.

[Chinook]

Not sure what a subject-verb disagreement is...but I would have said, "that doesn't make sense."

Which is one of the two prestigious ways you could have used (along with, "That makes no sense"). But you said he should have said, "That don't make sense," which is also very non-prestigious. Negative concord is a pretty common thing in other languages (like Spanish), but subject-verb disagreement is not correct in any language that makes a singular/plural distinction. No one thinks, "He go to the store every Sunday" is proper English.

[MaNu4Tres]

Jack dug his own grave, tbh. He's an idiot with an ego.

He chose to spend all his time last summer trying to market and push his far fetched rap career instead of working on his game before going into his last contract year (smart much?)-- which would have not only improved the Spurs, but would have also improved the likelihood of him getting quality PT and improved the chance at a last decent contract (2 yr 6-8 mil); Pretty stupid move. It's not Pop's fault that Jack shot 27% from 3. It wasn't Pop's fault that he sucked terribly.

It was all on Jack. Jack put Jack in this predicament. Pop was just doing the team a favor not playing a guy with a PER of 8 that was shooting 27% from 3 the 25 mpg I'm assuming Jack wanted. , Jack is lucky Pop even played him the amount he did.

It's Jack's fault he chose trying to be the next Lil John. There's consequences for every decision. And his decisions last summer were pretty stupid (contract year) and we saw and will see the consequences (27% from 3; and he won't be getting a contract more than the minimum next year).

Wish you well Jack, but your selfishness, ego and ignorance don't belong on the Spurs.

[timtonymanu]

Yep I saw this article yesterday.

If you look back at the RJ for SJax trade thread, there was a certain poster that didn't like the trade because of Jack's ego issues. Everyone scoffed at that poster. Turns out he was right.

[Proxy]

I guess this would be a good opportunity to express how ing annoying it was when Jax defended Shannon Brown after that flagrant on Manu... people want to say how great of a teammate he was, sticking up for his teammates, and then he does that . And defending Artest and taking a shot at Ibaka was ing childish. It sucks, the personal issue he went through with losing his baby and nagging injuries, but ... He came here, bouncing around losing environments, and he can't accept the role given to him by the best coach in the league on a great team that has an established iden y of operating as a unit. You think someone would be humbled by all that, but it turns out he's just as big of an idiot as people I defended him against said he was.

[jjktkk]

Yep I saw this article yesterday.

If you look back at the RJ for SJax trade thread, there was a certain poster that didn't like the trade because of Jack's ego issues. Everyone scoffed at that poster. Turns out he was right.

Still glad that trade went down.

[jag]

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