OT: Kyle Neptune/Cam Whitmore

[Hans Sprungfeld]

It's alarming how many of you don't even read the twitter username and/or click into to read a bio.

Even macho yentas gonna yenta. This story and thread are catnip for posters itching to dish and figuring it's a freebie cuz it's not our team.

It starts with the guy who called for Neptune's firing. He's the one who gave people the football to run with.

From all that's written here, I don't get any sense that Neptune was in the lead, pushing a damaging story. That'd be dumb & crazy for no good reason. He might not have satisfactorily rebutted somebody who'd already gotten a negative impression or wanted to push that angle. What good sense would it make for him to originate the criticism?

In time, we'll see enough from Whitmore and Neptune, and learn how good they are . Til then, is it really our business, or a way to show our own best sides? I doubt it.

The quote in the Karaban-related tweet sounds like some bad-energy fake praise toward Alex of the type that Cooley at his smarmiest like to sling, even if by slim chance it were true.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

What if the kid was an absolute punk and nightmare to coach? Leaking that to a shock jock is a scumbag move from the scout and only incentivizes coaches to lie and give you bad information. Or Whitmore’s camp is lying. I haven’t seen a person say a good thing about the kid off the court in the pre-draft process

What's your motivation here?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

One time we rented a condo to a young couple. They got the most amazing reference from their supposed landlord. She said she needed the guest house they’d been living in for her mother to move into. She poured it on real thick and I felt pretty good about it.

Anyway, they showed up to see our rental property looking like a happy little family. Beautiful 20 something blond girl, a handsome and well dressed guy and a beautiful 18 month old baby boy. Fast forward 6 months, rent stops coming in, the guy is nowhere to be found and some strung out chick is now living in his place. Turns out the kid wasn’t the guy’s in the first place and the the two had really only been dating for a couple of months. The girl moved her new female lover in and it appeared all they did was do drugs and have sex. When we finally got them evicted I had to discard enormous amounts of , multiple vibrators and dildos on top of all the filth, ash trays, bottles, dirty clothes etc. Wore gloves for that job. I never let my wife see it. She would have sworn off real estate forever.

Makin' memories, eh?

 

[CCSUblue]

Russillo backtracks.

 

[Deleted at users request]

I’d be on the side of honesty.

If Cam was a bad Apple he’s just that. Don’t need to go out your way to do it but you have to earn trust like others stated for the good of others who come after him.

It does make me wonder how Hurley handled Bouknight’s draft process seeing as that’s probably a similar situation.

 

[LStudfellow]

if this is true this is a bad look for Neptune

I have read this thread and come back to it when it is updated since you started it @aceboon... and although it may be a bad look for Neptune, I think a number of posters here have made very valid points. And now Russillo has walked it back, which happens often in these cases.

Which brings me to ONE OTHER THING... I am so sick and tired of hacks like Steve Franklin going all in on "this coach needs to be fired!" or any other stupid declaration with their fake outrage that is nothing more than click bait.

It is absolutely intellectually lazy and "twitter mob-ish" to go so over-the-top ballistic like this without even having the facts, and then using the weak "If he really did it" defense. I HATE guys like this! Oh, and with Russillo's mea culpa now this azzhat looks just as stupid as he really is.

Total BS... even giving him any validity is pathetic. IF (big if because none of us knows) Cam Whitmore was a detriment to the team, then Kyle Neptune should be honest about it to NBA scouts/front office people. If not, then he should never say it.

But either way Franklin was just looking to make a name for himself with such an idiotic take, nothing more.

 

[Samoo]

You win

All I got is renting to a nice threesome of young women who turned out to be a punk band, painted all the walls in the house like redrum, and gouged to hell our newly installed cherry floors. Needless to say that when their deposit didn't cover the damage, and they didn't pay the repair costs, their credit was severely impacted.