Baron Davis on Olympic snub: 'Coach K a hater'
BARON DAVIS: “Coach K a hater. I ain’t tripping. DRAYMOND GREEN: Do you think that stems from you not going to Duke and going to UCLA? BARON DAVIS: Absolutely. That’s something he wrote about it in his book. They can blame it on the USA team and [] like that, but every sorry [] that was in front of me or that got invited was sorry guards. You ask me, they sorry. DRAYMOND GREEN: Who were the guards? BARON DAVIS: Ridnour got invited, he weak as []. No knock on him, you know what I mean, but this is my hurt talking. I respect his game. I think L. Ridnour is a good player, but we talking as hoopers. It’s like, are you [] kidding me? Start there. Now go to the top guard and be like, damn, I don’t get a shot? This is ill, homie. But I wasn’t tripping. I knew what it was. This is coming back to roost from college.”
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Baron Davis: “You know I had Mike Montgomery the year before and he coached like we were stupid. He talked to us like we were stupid, bro. He was basically like a coach who just keeps coaching and telling you everything to do, and then when you do something, he’s like, ‘No, don’t do it.’ I’m like, ‘Whoa, homie.’ People who coach every play don’t understand that this is a performance. You got to chill, You gotta chill.” -via YouTube / July 13, 2024
Baron Davis: “He used the team as like his little duck-off business, you know what I mean, so like his PR, everything, all the [expletive] that he did was all through the team. And then he was just a weirdo, bro. He was just hella weird with weird people around him and I felt like anybody who hung around that dude had to be a weird [expletive]. You know what I mean? Because like he was beyond weird, you know what I’m saying. And not that he was racist, he was a hate everybody [expletive], so it wasn’t even that he just hated black people, he hated everybody. He hated everybody, he probably hated himself.” -via YouTube / July 12, 2024
During the episode, Davis humorously described his approach to handling the strained relationship with Montgomery, saying: “I had to tell Mike Montgomery don’t talk to me for the rest of the year bro, don’t say nothing to me.” Davis explained that he felt Montgomery’s coaching style was ineffective and disconnected from the players’ needs. “You ain’t telling us nothing to help ourselves out here. You’re just out here coaching, you know what I mean, like you just coaching bro you just coaching,” Davis elaborated. -via Clutch Points / July 12, 2024