Julian Wright was asked by Jay Triano to get into the game and he decided he was not want to be embarrassed during the 138-100 loss to the Golden State Warriors which was after he was put into the Denver Nuggets 123-90 loss and played 10 minutes but did not collect any stats and the only other game he played in the last 15 Raptor games was a 3 minute stint during a 96-94 loss with 2 free throw makes and a board. He has not played more than 10 minutes in the last 20 games and then before that he had 12 of 13 games of more than 10 minutes where he filled the score sheet especially with steals as he had a # of 2 steal games including 2 (4 steal games) and also had 6 games of at least 4 boards and 6 games of 2 assists at least with a game of 4 assists and 3 assists. He also was the 13Th overall in the 2007 which means he was drafted 12 spots after Andrea Bargnani and I believe he should be having given a bigger rub on the court to see what he can do and maybe even changed the lack of defensive effort and set the tone for the Raptors and he has been able to do it more often than not.
So I believe that he was simply frustrated that he does not get a lot of minutes on the floor especially when he got only 10 minutes during the Nuggets game where they were destroyed early and often and was one of the fresh legs going into the game as he had not played during the win against the Thunder the night before. He was not ready to just get in for a few minutes and then to be forgotten once again as it looks like Jay Triano has something against Julian Wright. This is because Julian Wright would have a good game and then forgotten for a couple of games and then recently he is only getting a small amount of minutes to prove himself and it is tough to go from 0 to 120 immediately or he is put back on the bench. It is obvious that Jay Triano has lost the room for month and nobody listening to him and nobody wants to play solid defense so I believe Julian Wright is not at fault for this situation as I have not heard of why Jay has so much trouble finding him minutes during the games where the Raptors are not usually in a winning position and Julian strangely enough is the Raptors union rep.
Bryan Colangelo phoned into the Jeff Blair show on the Fan 590 this morning as like a caller just to set the record straight and he said that it was done internally it means it was taken care of and that one of the things that Julian Wright needed to do is to apologized to his teammates and that it was out of character for Julian. He also talked about how it was a single AP writer hearing Julian refusing to enter the game and then told one person, they told one person, and they told one person and that if they had suspended Julian for the rest of the season they my have had the players union getting involved and it becoming messy along with hurting Julian chances in upcoming free agency period. He also talked about Robert Horry thrown a towel in the face of then Sun head coach Danny Angle while Brain was with the Suns and he traded Horry within 24 hours because there had been a lead up to the towel throwing incident.
Also why is Julian Wright getting so ripped in this situation after a couple of weeks ago Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani got into Jay Triano face when they were taken out of a close game on defense to try to get a defense stop. Then obviously would be put into the game on offense as they are more offensive minded players and set up a basket to get the win but that situation has just been pushed under the rug.
Jay please let Julian have a chance to prove to everyone that he is a good defensive players
Tom Mehegan
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