I have to say I do find the team more likeable now with Jrue as opposed to Brogdon and Timelord.
Jrue is one of the easiest guys in the league to root for. I like how he plays. A team first guy. Great attitude. Effort, size, athleticism. Competiveness.
Brogdon rubbed me the wrong way. I hated seeing him criticize his teammate's defense while dogging it on D himself. That disgusted me. The same way it did when Amare Stoudemire or Carmelo Anthony did it. Defense accountability for the minions but not for me. I'm the star. Diva-attitude.
Also, I wasn't loving his style of play on offense. More of an iso-style player than a team based player. When he moved to a team style he became a limited spot up shooter type. In order to be more productive, he had to dominate the ball. Too much for my liking.
Then the injury proness. Big issue for Brogdon. Huge issue for Timelord.
It is nice to get away from those things.
It is nice to have an easy to root for player like Jrue Holiday.
I found it odd that Brogdon seldom smiled. Made me wonder if he had an underlying problem with his role on the Celtics.
Yes, he had Resting [Blank] Face, but the dude wasn't disgruntled. You guys are reading into things way too much.
Maybe he wasn't happy when White was declared the starter without having the opportunity to compete for it. Sure, who wouldn't be p---ed if their superior quit their job and your coworker automatically got promoted without you even being able to apply?
You all think that you wouldn't have SOME emotions?
That being said, he was in Boston getting ready for training camp. The dude is as professional as they come. Stop judging someone's feelings/motives... or their PRODUCTION in their job based on a facial expression.
The dude BALLED OUT last year for the Celtics. Now all you guys are dumping on him.
It's poor form and embarrassing.
And anyone who says "I wish he was more of a distributor" look at his last two seasons with Indiana where he avered 5.9apg in 34mpg.
And then his 3.7apg in 26 minutes with the Cs. That's 23% fewer minutes and his APG barely dropped off.
He went from averaging an assist every .17 minutes, to one every .14 minutes with the Celtics. But he was asked to be more of a scoring punch off the bench that we lacked the previous seasons. And he did that with 44% 3-point shooting. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
You're going to some really extreme lengths to defend him. Bringing up irrelevant things he did in Indiana are odd. He's a Trail Blazer now
I gotta agree with No Nickname. It's really corny that fans are dumping on Malcolm based on some overblown narrative. If he was unhappy with his role, he didn't let on while he was here. He played the part that was asked of him and did it better than any other sixth man in the league. Even tried to play through an injury in the playoffs.
Just show appreciation and move on. Retroactively trying to paint him as a malcontent because he... didn't smile? Thats lame. There doesn't have to be a villain in this situation.
Sure, the weird psychology via computer is odd. But criticising his porous defence or his average passing (as a Celtic) is pretty valid to me, as are concerns over his health.
Just as we aren't in any position to know how much truth there is to reporting of discontent, so is No Nickname in no position to know how much of a 'professional' Brogdon is
I have no problem with criticizing his play, but that's not what I'm referring to here.
And we've seen enough unprofessionalism in the NBA to be able to understand the difference (see: Harden, James). People are accepting "sourced" reports as gospel when the player himself has said nothing one way or the other. Malcolm could've gone on a whiney media tour ala Terry Rozier. He hasn't. His biggest crime is not talking about anything or smiling enough. Weird energy.
For whatever it is worth, Brad confirmed that Brogdon was upset about the trade discussions:
Some stuff has been talked about with the Brogdon stuff, you just have conversations about it,” explained Stevens. “You understand why a person would feel angry about that. But at the same time, that’s why you have those conversations. You work together. Obviously, in almost all scenarios, you’re talking about unbelievable players on all sides.”
Yes, but there's a difference between going public with not being happy and discussing IN PRIVATE with your GM how you feel.
The first is unprofessional and makes it hard to assimilate with the team in the future.
The second is very professional, especially if you've been told how big a part of the organization you are, you don't complain about being demoted to the bench, and you excel at whatever the team asks you to do.
Two completely different scenarios. If your employee goes badmouthing you Roy to the entire staff, or on social media, or through intermediaries, that's unprofessional.
If he asks to speak privately with you about a situation and honestly conveys his disapproval of one of your decisions, but keeps it to himself, that's called being professional.
