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“There was no misunderstanding,” Hollins said of the bizarre breakup with Iverson. “He knew what his role was when we met in Atlanta (over the summer), that he would have a chance to compete for a starting job, but even if he looked like the better person for the starting position, that I was going to do what was best for the team. I was going to start the person who I felt needed to start.” Delco Times
Coach Flip Saunders rarely likes to criticize his players after losses, offering explanations for their poor performances. But he let 'er rip after this game, blasting his team for surrendering a season-high 127 points and allowing the Thunder to shoot better than 50 percent from the floor and beyond the three-point line. "You score [108] points, you should win," Saunders said. "We didn't defend."Washington Post
After a surprisingly strong debut season in the Euroleague, playing for possibly the biggest overachievers in European basketball—Partizan Belgrade-- expectations were always going to be extremely high for Czech teenager Jan Vesely going into this year. While his minutes are up (24 per game on average compared with 18 last in both the Adriatic League and Euroleague) and his production has risen accordingly, it’s increasingly clear that this is not going to be the breakthrough season that some NBA scouts had hoped for. Part of that might have to do with the very obvious fact that Partizan is sporting a much weaker squad this season, having lost arguably their three most important playmakers on both ends of the floor in Novica Velickovic (Real Madrid), Milenko Tepic (Panathinaikos) and Stephane Lasme (Maccabi Tel Aviv), as well as a double-digit scorer in Uros Tripkovic (DKV Joventut). In their place they brought a very athletic but extremely inexperienced and often-erratic American combo guard in Bo McCalebb as their main (lone?) facilitator, and a couple of blue collar but physically limited big men in the form of Lawrence Roberts and Aleks Maric. The team seems to be struggling a lot more this year in both the Euroleague and Adriatic League so far (5-6 record combined), but obviously it’s still extremely early, only 11 games into the season. DraftExpress.com
Mike Dunleavy is almost out in L.A. It seems that Clippers players, according to sources, are not big on Dunleavy and much prefer the kinder, gentler assistant Kim Hughes. The Clippers may soon give in on that count and dump Dunleavy, who is sitting on a 4-9 mark, disappointing for a team expected to compete for a playoff spot. Dunleavy has long been suspicious of Hughes, and the two have been at loggerheads, but Hughes isn’t exactly angling for Dunleavy’s job — he likes to teach (witness the results he’s gotten from Chris Kaman), and running a team would take away from his time to work with big men one-on-one. But there are those in Clipperland who feel that Dunleavy, who is both coach and general manager of the team, is grinding this team into the ground. Action should come soon. Sporting News
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