I'm sorry if this has already been discussed, but I just read the Slam Online Q & A with Isaiah. I got the distinct feeling he's been perturbed for a long time. I also get the feeling he still resents being drafted #60. I wish him all the luck in the world wherever he lands, but I cannot help but wonder if he'll ever get over his self-resentment over being 5'9"...
I have no idea how he won't feel perturbed backing up a guy like Dragic who really came into his own this past year and will be gunning hard for both the playoffs and an All Star spot. He's a 35 min a night PG. That doesn't even get into Bledsoe and the other PG's and where they fit in.
If IT took playing 35 min a night and getting the rock enough to lead the team in FGA many nights as a slight against his ability, I just don't see how he's going to be happy in a smaller role in Pho. And being the pizza guy and our most marketed player, even more than Boogie the last two years, it really seams he has a skewed view of what's transpired and his role in the league. This franchise pumped him up an incredible amount and he seems hung up on not being wanted. Yet I couldn't watch a single commercial break without an IT commercial the last two years.
If he was being offered 8-10M/Y and a starting spot by other teams, then I could see him feeling a bit insulted by our offer and proposal. Yet just about every rumor surrounding him has been about using him as a 6th man, as we want to here and I don't see any team offering him a role as big as he had here. Yes he probably thinks being a 6th man on a better team is more acceptable in his mind, but we're trying to be that better team and consider his placement in being a better team would be just how the better teams plan on using him.
But it's borderline delusional to think our FO doesn't respect him and who he is when he had a bigger role and was marketed more than any other team appears willing to do going forward. A number here wanted him filling the BJax role. That's exactly what most around the league appear to see him has. The problem isn't with us or how the NBA sees him, the problem is with how IT sees himself.