Spencer Hawes Will Not Play Tonight

[VF21]

In all this discussion of Spencer, there's one question that I haven't seen speculated upon...and there's been quite a bit of speculating so I think it's fair game. Does Spencer want to be or care about being a King? Has he made up his mind that he's just riding this out until he's traded or can leave and sign elsewhere? Does he play well if he's happened to have a good day and is feeling into it, but if he's dragging a bit doesn't bother to psych himself up for the game? My general feel, without anything to solid to substantiate it, is he's at best ambivalent about being here.

There.

If you had seen what I saw last night, you might still have questions about Hawes, but you wouldn't question whether or not he wants or cares about being a King.

I think this has become the Mt. Everest of molehills, and I still maintain my contention that a lot of it is because Amick has problems drawing the line between being an actual reporter and being some kind of tweet-fiend who has to put everything out onto the Net for whatever reason.

Hawes goofed, Westphal slapped him down for it and that's about all there really is to it. It makes good fodder for tweets and message boards, though, so it's probably going to continue way longer than it should.

 

[JB_kings]

Sam Amick tweeted this

"Westphal said "We'll see" when asked if Hawes would be active Friday against Utah".

Spencer better sit this game out too. Utah brings some men to the court and they aren't afraid to give and get some bruises.

 

[=LarryLegend=]

anybody get the feeling Hawes might get into a fight on the court in the coming weeks?

 

[Andriod_KiNg]

Didn't Petrie call out Hawes for ditching the summer league without a good reason ?

We tend to forget that he's only in his 3rd year , maybe he thinks he's entitled to more but this is a very young team and he is still a on a rebuilding team trying to weed out the guys want to be here and those who don't.

 

[mac]

I'm sorry but is this really what you wanted to say? Spencer and all NBA players should give their all any chance they get. you see tyreke out there giving up when things don't go his way? he tries even harder. did Donte give up because he was so highly touted in high school and hadn't been playing? no he stepped up to the plate and worked his butt off to be a defender and is slowly working himself into a starter.
hawes on the other hand is an entitled little brat. we've all worked with them before and probly some of these people are too, people that do the bare minimum and then wonder why they haven't got a raise or promotion. Spencer clearly doesn't get life he's been a spoiled little brat his entire life his family probably treated him like the golden child. some people just don't get it. they're willing to do everything they can to prove they're right except work harder. point fingers, pass blame, make excuses, etc.. Spencer needs to go spend the summer in tyrekes neighborhood and see what life is really like. he's just been so pampered and babied his entire life he can't understand why westphal hasn't deemed him the golden child instead of doing what he should be which is getting stronger, getting in the weight room, hustling on defense, looking like he gives a crap when teams repeatedly drive to the hole over and over, crashing the boards. it's everyones fault except spencies and it doesn't look like that's ever going to change. he's got a ton of potential but clearly doesn't have what it takes mentally to ever really be anything other than a bench role player.

and you know this because....? Where may I ask, has Spencer given up? In the last few games (and yes, the last few games matter more than those before because he is being benched now) do you not recall Spencer running back on D to prevent a lay up? Do you not recall the blocks and hustle that we were praising him for?

My point was with regards to his complaining about minutes/rotations. Mentioning Tyreke is pointless really, because we all know that Tyreke is going to get his minutes whether he's playing well or not. I'm fine with people saying that Spencer is soft, or that he's being benched because of his inappropriate actions. To say that he's given up just shows how blind you are. Not trying hard enough, yes. Given up? Way off.

My point was that there is some justification to Spencer's complains, and in my personal opinion definitely an over reaction from PW (based on the article alone, if there was greater conflict in the locker room then this is poor judgement on my behalf).

Let me put it this way. You've been publicly labelled as a soft player. You put in more effort in games, try to help more defensively and hustle more. instead of being rewarded you get pulled from the starting line up. Sure, the right thing to do is to work harder! Yes! Because working harder got you pulled from the line up. It's easy to say you should quit whining and work. Harder to actually do it when you don't seem to be rewarded for your efforts.

 

[Padrino]

If you had seen what I saw last night, you might still have questions about Hawes, but you wouldn't question whether or not he wants or cares about being a King.

I think this has become the Mt. Everest of molehills, and I still maintain my contention that a lot of it is because Amick has problems drawing the line between being an actual reporter and being some kind of tweet-fiend who has to put everything out onto the Net for whatever reason.

Hawes goofed, Westphal slapped him down for it and that's about all there really is to it. It makes good fodder for tweets and message boards, though, so it's probably going to continue way longer than it should.

meh, while i agree about a molehill being turned into a mountain with this spencer hawes situation, i don't think amick can be implicated here. i believe that members of the media should act responsibly in light of their influence, but amick is in no way the only journalist who covers the nba through the use of micro-blogging. the story in sacramento is the same all across the league. journalists everywhere are reporting stories in 140 characters or less via twitter. often those stories don't pertain to much, but, big or small, journalists are using the technology to report those stories to a savvy fanbase that demands a constant flow of information. i'm not saying that it's right, or that it represents the height of journalistic integrity. i'm not judging it one way or the other, really, i'm just saying that its there, its persistent, and i don't see it going away any time soon...

the nba itself embraces micro-blogging. they don't want their players tweeting in the space inhabited by "game time," but its supposedly bringing fans closer to the players, so i'm sure the nba is all for it. that said, regardless of one's personal stance on twitter, it has already undeniably changed the way that the media covers the world of sports. i followed draft day on twitter, and it essentially acted as a live feed for trade news and rumors. i found out about kevin martin being traded via sam amick's twitter before any major news outlet picked up the story. i'm not saying that it was in any way important for me to find out about kevin martin's trade so swiftly, but that's where technology and the internet has brought us. most cell phones have internet access these days, and many twitter users are syncing their phones and their twitter accounts, so info is updated on the go and in real time. its something that the league, the owners, the teams, the coaches, the players, and the fans are ALL going to have to deal with and adapt to...