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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Kaep in particular was still good enough to start for a few teams and back up for several.
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Agreed.
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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Sure, it comes down basically to the Ravens and Jets ownership being top stodgy...
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That's one read. But rather than "top stodgy" could it just be a desire to avoid unnecessary distraction and controversy for an average-ish player?
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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
As for Abdul-Rauf, that’s a bizarre read of what happened. The Nuggets traded him for the desiccated remains of Sarunas Marciulonis in the midst of that controversy and he was actually still effective in spite of all the controversy. The next season he barely even played - that’s what variance looks like, not “an unacceptably low field goal percentage”.
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The year after the suspension, he went to Sacramento and had a statistically similar season (compared to the year before). Minutes were slightly down but he was still a key player. It was the next year when his shooting tanked, and thus his career began its downward tragectory. I'm certainly open to evidence that his demise was related to some sort of blackball scenario or mistreatment, but I'm just going by what I've found... and that points towards a deterioration of his game, and possibly disinterest on his part.