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Nocioni Thinks Nocioni Didn’t Get Enough Shots With Bulls Or Kings

March 26, 2009 at 9:00 am | Basketball, NBA
By: Stormin' Norman Disciple

Kings Hawks Basketball I guess at least Nocioni didn’t run his mouth too much when he was in Chicago, because he did pretty much everything else wrong. Apparently he feels more comfortable speaking his mind in Sacramento and it’s just too funny:

“(Sacramento) is the worst team and being here you find out why… There are many young guys that want to find their niche, but they are so far away… There’s no chemistry or teamwork. I can’t see how this team could be competitive in the near future in the West… The draft is going to save no one. I don’t know, I’ll see what happens this summer.”

“Last year I lost all hope they would pass the ball to me (laughs). I just waited on the corner watching what happened. If the ball came, it came… It rarely did (laughs). It’s the same thing in Sacramento. There’s a lot of young people and a lot of individualistic play.”

There are so many things wrong with these statements I don’t know where to begin. He’s not serious, is he? I mean we all agree with what he’s saying about how bad Sacramento is, but you can’t say that about your team. Also everyone is all about individualistic play? Come on Noce. You are the penultimate black hole on offense. As Thank You Isaiah points out:

Love it. Dude took the most shots per minute of his entire career last year, and indeed, took the third most total shots on the team in 07-08, behind only Deng and Gordon. Meanwhile, his AST% (8.3) was third-lowest on the team among those playing meaningful minutes, (barely) ahead of only Ben Wallace (8.2) and Joe Smith (7.4).

And that was in Chicago. Since being traded to Sacto, he is taking almost 11 shots a game. Maybe he just thinks he should be the point guard and take all the shots. Not to say that individual interests don’t dominate in the Sacto locker room, but isn’t this a bit hypocritical? Would you pass to a guy that you knew would never pass back, unless he was like Michael Jordan or something? Nocioni is no MJ, I’ll tell you that.

How come he never said this great stuff when he was here? At least it would have made things more interesting during that brutal 07-08 campaign. I’m sure his teammates will pass to him more now that he was honest about how he feels.