Marty Mac: Napear motivates Hart the most

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This is hilarious. Looks like Marty is practically calling Napear out. IFL bout anyone??? ;)

http://www.sacbee.com/100/story/148355.html

Marty Mac's world: Napear, not Musselman, motivates Hart the most
By Martin McNeal - Bee Staff Writer
Published 12:00 am PDT Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Former Kings guard Jason Hart isn't known around the NBA for talking trash.

First, Hart usually is on the bench, rather than on the court in position to flap his gums.

Second, it's not usually Hart's way to talk for the sake of talking.

But with Hart starting at point guard for the Los Angeles Clippers against the Kings on Friday night at Arco Arena, there likely was not a more motivated individual in the building.

And if we really wanted to hear Hart talk, it's too bad Kings TV play-by-play guy and local radio show host Grant Napear wasn't in uniform.

The Kings waived Hart on March 1 after playing him in just 13 games. Four days later, the Clippers signed him.

Los Angeles point guard Shaun Livingston is out for the season because of torn knee ligaments, and Sam Cassell has been hampered all season by back spasms. Hart has stepped into the lineup and given coach Mike Dunleavy stability at the point as the Clippers try to hold on to a playoff berth.

Not a bad spot for Hart, who still can't figure out how he couldn't get any playing time from Kings coach Eric Musselman. So it was Musselman to whom Hart ran a little smack while scoring 16 points on 6-for-10 shooting to go with six rebounds and a game-high seven assists in a 105-101 Clippers victory.

Hart said he believes Dunleavy's experience -- playing and coaching -- makes him more able to be direct with his players than Musselman.

"Mike's a straight shooter," Hart said of Dunleavy. "He tells you how it's going to be, and then you have to roll with it."

Hart said he ate dinner the night before the game with Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Ronnie Price, and many of his former Kings teammates came up to him after the game. Assistant coach Mark Hughes, who used to put Hart through his pregame workouts, also paid his respects.

Hart said he didn't expect much conversation with Musselman.

"He never talked to me when I was here," Hart said. "He never told me that I wasn't going to play or why I didn't play. So I still don't know. But we're all grown men, and I'm not going say anything disrespectful or critical. I'm just going to tell it how it was."

Hart said Napear's words actually have provided the greatest motivation. When Hart's agent, Bill Neff, criticized the way his client was being handled by the Kings earlier this season, Napear described the fifth-year guard as the team's 15th man.

"I never forgot that," Hart said, "and I never will. I've never been anybody's 15th man."

Salmons needs a jumper - If Kings swingman John Salmons is to move his game up, he has to buy, steal, rent or, far more realistically, get a jump shot in which he believes. He doesn't absolutely have to have three-point range.

If defenders can see what I see -- that Salmons often is reluctant to take open perimeter shots -- they will just back away. Amazingly, Salmons still can get to the basket. Imagine how much more difficult he would be to guard if defenders truly had to respect his jumper.
 
I'd like to hear what Potapenko has to say as well as Price and Williams!

Kmart too when Muss sits him out as a sort of punishment if he misses his 1st few shots. I still don't understand that and the crazy subing he uses.

You could say that the guy needs more time and to have the team to do the job defensively etc etc....but if the players' don't respect him...that's a big problem and you cannot do much about that other then lose all those players which isn't going to happen, you have to trade away the whole team most likely! :p
 
Sluggah said:
i think this article says a lot more about musselman than hart or napear. and it aint pretty.
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Keep in mind, however, that Marty is still fuming at Musselman over the alleged cell-phone incident.

The whole circus atmosphere between the Kings and the local media is reaching epic proportions. Get your popcorn here!! Peanuts! Cotton candy!!!

;)
 
I'm listening now to 1140 they just played the original clip. Napear NEVER said that Hart was the 15th man. Also, Napear talked to Hart after the interview and told him in PERSON what happened. Hart said he appreciated him telling him in person what happened.

Typical BEE(bogus) journalism!:(
 
This just shows how far this community (Kings team, Kings Broadcasters, Kings fans, newspapers that covers the Kings, Local politicians) has fallen when it comes to sports chemestry. How very, very sad. I get sick and tired hearing Napear slam the Bee, warented or not. It gets old. I have been finding myself listening to ESPN 1320 more and more.

This has become so tabloidish because this team is not winning and we have nothing to look forward to and the media has nothing to report or write about. SAD!!!
 
Ya Marty Mac again irresponsible journalism. Like Napear said and I heard the first half hour of his show today and he is right Napear never said Hart was the 15th man on the team and he played the clip back he said he was the 9th,10th,11th, or 12th man on the team. Also like Napear said him and Marty are friends and he has his number all Marty has to do is pick up the damn phone call him and ask him did you say this. The Bee has gone down hill ever since Bill Bradley has become sports editor over there with irresponsible journalism and he has no control over his writer and you have editors putting stuff in stories that wasn't there in the first place, not to mention how Mark Kreidler was bacisically run out of there by the Bee.
 
Both Napear and Marty Mack are idiots. They both are no good at what they do.

I hope and pray they read these message boards :)
 
The Bee does suck and they can start first by removing Ailene Poison and Marcos Breton...IDIOTS. How they lost Mark Kreidler is beyond me. Seriously one of the best writer's in the nation.
 
Smills91 said:
The Bee does suck and they can start first by removing Ailene Poison and Marcos Breton...IDIOTS. How they lost Mark Kreidler is beyond me. Seriously one of the best writer's in the nation.
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They lost him because someone named ESPN wanted him. And, he wrote a book. And basically he was too good to stay at a small town paper like the Bee.
 
Okay, time out here.

Unless Marty made up this quote:

"I never forgot that," Hart said, "and I never will. I've never been anybody's 15th man."

then actually it was Hart who at least intially thought Grant called him the 15th man. (oh, and while we're at it, amidst all the outrage it wasn't too far from the truth at times this year). Marty just picked up the Hart quote. I'm actually far more concerned about how that minor little blurb made it in as the title for the column.

In any case:

1) if Grant really HAD said that, it would have been a little snarky, but hardly outrageous given that Hart was not even on the 12 man roster eveyr game
2) if Hart thought he said it, its perfectly reasonable for him to use it as motivation
3) if Hart told Marty that Grant said that, and that that was his motivation, then its not even that godawful fro Marty to have not fact checked it. Sloppy, but gioven 1) and 2) above, hardly outrageous

all of which leads to:

4) Grant being outraged at Marty is stupid, the title to the story is stupid, and us worrying about it is none too reasonable either. I think Marty is sloppy as a columnist, and I think Grant is a jerk. But the underlying "insult" here is so minor that it barely registers.
 
I think it's all hilarious...and rather pathetic at the same time. Which is why I referenced IFL, since the Maloofs are reported to be interested in buying into that venue.

It all sounds way too WWE to me.

;)
 
VF21 said:
I think it's all hilarious...and rather pathetic at the same time. Which is why I referenced IFL, since the Maloofs are reported to be interested in buying into that venue.

It all sounds way too WWE to me.

;)
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I don't appreciate you insulting the WWE in that manner...

:p
 
McNeil has no credibility - NONE. Grant played the tape on the radio, which confirmed that he in fact did not say that Hart was the 15th man. McNeal didn't call Grant to confirm. Lazy, lazy, lazy. I'm trying to figure out whether McNeal is more petty or more lazy. Difficult decision...
 
Kingster said:
McNeil has no credibility - NONE. Grant played the tape on the radio, which confirmed that he in fact did not say that Hart was the 15th man. McNeal didn't call Grant to confirm. Lazy, lazy, lazy. I'm trying to figure out whether McNeal is more petty or more lazy. Difficult decision...
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Again, so what?

Marty didn't make up the 15th man stuff, Hart did. Marty took him at his word, and probably should have checked. But it wasn't Marty making the assertion. It was hart. Not sure how that goes to Marty's credibility or pettiness. Player said it, Marty reported it.
 
Bricklayer said:
Again, so what?

Marty didn't make up the 15th man stuff, Hart did. Marty took him at his word, and probably should have checked. But it wasn't Marty making the assertion. It was hart. Not sure how that goes to Marty's credibility or pettiness. Player said it, Marty reported it.
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I think the main point is, once again, McNeil has NOT done his due diligence. Hart said something, Marty repeated it without doing the first thing a cub reporter learns ... he didn't check for confirmation.

When something like this happens, it's only natural IMHO for people to wonder what else Marty has gotten wrong.
 
Granted across the board.

But if this is the story structure:

1) Jason Hart is playing well
2) the reason Jason Hart is playing well is because he is inspired
3) the reason Jason is inspired is because he thinks Grant called him a 15th man

Then whether or not Grant in fact DID call him a 15th man is almost compeltely irrelevant. Hart is still (in theory) playing well because he thinks Grant did, so besides maybe nudging Hart before his game against us and bursting his indignation balloon, hard to see the huge significance of Grant saying it or not to the story.

So the minor point is just that it would be different if the story was about Grant calling Hart a 15th man. Then the fact check is 100% obvious. But it was really about Hart playing well. The snub, or lack thereof is just background motivation. Think whoever the guy was who put that blurb front and center in the title might be the person who created much of the controversy.
 
Bricklayer said:
Granted across the board.

But if this is the story structure:

1) Jason Hart is playing well
2) the reason Jason Hart is playing well is because he is inspired
3) the reason Jason is inspired is because he thinks Grant called him a 15th man

Then whether or not Grant in fact DID call him a 15th man is almost compeltely irrelevant. Hart is still (in theory) playing well because he thinks Grant did, so besides maybe nudging Hart before his game against us and bursting his indignation balloon, hard to see the huge significance of Grant saying it or not to the story.

So the minor point is just that it would be different if the story was about Grant calling Hart a 15th man. Then the fact check is 100% obvious. But it was really about Hart playing well. The snub, or lack thereof is just background motivation. Think whoever the guy was who put that blurb front and center in the title might be the person who created much of the controversy.
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i think it'd be hilarious if Jason Hart read this and realized that Napear never called him the 15th man, and then just started playing like complete and utter crap due to no motivation
 
Bricklayer said:
Okay, time out here.

Unless Marty made up this quote:

"I never forgot that," Hart said, "and I never will. I've never been anybody's 15th man."

then actually it was Hart who at least intially thought Grant called him the 15th man. (oh, and while we're at it, amidst all the outrage it wasn't too far from the truth at times this year). Marty just picked up the Hart quote. I'm actually far more concerned about how that minor little blurb made it in as the title for the column.

In any case:

1) if Grant really HAD said that, it would have been a little snarky, but hardly outrageous given that Hart was not even on the 12 man roster eveyr game
2) if Hart thought he said it, its perfectly reasonable for him to use it as motivation
3) if Hart told Marty that Grant said that, and that that was his motivation, then its not even that godawful fro Marty to have not fact checked it. Sloppy, but gioven 1) and 2) above, hardly outrageous

all of which leads to:

4) Grant being outraged at Marty is stupid, the title to the story is stupid, and us worrying about it is none too reasonable either. I think Marty is sloppy as a columnist, and I think Grant is a jerk. But the underlying "insult" here is so minor that it barely registers.
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Grant and Marty pretty much hate each otehr, and it's pretty public on Grant's show how he feels about Marty. I guess it started to get real bad when Marty called out Grant while Mike Lamb was hosting and Grant had a day off or whatever and when Grant called the show and Marty started tearing into him he said something on the lines of "I don't have to hear this idiot/moron on my day off" and hung up on Mike Lamb. I think since then it has been as heated as the Rosie and Donald feud. So I am thinking they will use whatever means necessary to rag on the other.
 
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