A lot was made the last couple of days about the talk me and Coach Van Gundy had. He came to me and asked why I thought we were struggling with our energy and lacking some enthusiasm. I tried to keep it real and be as honest as I could. I just told him it was tough dealing with the expectations and all the injuries that we’ve had with him being so negative to us all the time.
He asked me what my opinion was and it wasn’t like I went in there complaining to him. I know that coach wants the nothing but the best for us, but he does kind of bash us at times and it hurts the team, I think.
Stan is a great guy and he’s going to continue to stay on us and I don’t want him to stop that. I just told him that as a team we have a lot of new guys who aren’t used to the way that he coaches and sometimes it’s just a matter of how you deal with them. I can take somebody talking bad to me and him yelling at me or whatever, but you have to deal with certain people different ways. Some of the new guys just aren’t used to having a coach as active as Stan.
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Howard talks about Stan and the relationship between the two, leading to Stan coming to Howard last week. I like that SVG was open with the media and said that he came to Howard. To me that’s him trying to make sure people don’t think it’s Howard complaining. I don’t think SVG is worried about people thinking he’s weak. He seems to kind of just assume no one’s going to like him anyway.
Howard’s likely going to have other coaches in his career, and the next one will probably get more out of him and he’ll talk about how great it is to not have someone so negative around all the time. But Howard would not be where he is today without SVG. Make all the panic comments you want or question his coaching, but SVG has helped bring that kid from potential to star.
Interesting note from Nate Jones on Twitter via Orlando Magic Daily, C’s shot .298 (.394 in the paint) with Dwight Howard in the game. Without Howard? .500 and .667 in the paint. So yeah, for all the talk about the C’s knowing how to “handle” Howard? It looks like Howard knows how to handle the C’s.
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