Markelle Fultz gets rid of shooting coach Drew Hanlen

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I’ve never heard of that I’m hoping that’s not him shyt sounds like JR Smith :russ:
can even google it but on everything I swear it was him who used to be very disengaged on the bench when he was at Washington. I randomly remember reading it in an article a few years ago
 

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Ya'll keep running with this mental issue/Tourettes narrative about dude, but did he display any off these "hitches" & "tics" last year or at Washington, because I don't remember seeing any.
He didn't. The whole mental health angle is off. Fultz never displayed ANY of this shyt until he got hurt somewhere between the draft and training camp last year.

It's clear something went down, whether the injury was misdiagnosed/mistreated by the team, whether he withheld information from the team, etc.. the answer is somewhere in the middle.
 
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Shooting coaches are fukkin useless...unless he knows how to shoot 97% from the field I’m not sure how they truly improve someone’s game ..especially kids that have been playing ball since they were young

Essentially all they do is rebound and tell the person how many shots they made right?
 

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He didn't. The whole mental health angle is off. Fultz never displayed ANY of this shyt until he got hurt somewhere between the draft and training camp last year.

It's clear something went down, whether the injury was misdiagnosed/mistreated by the team, whether he withheld information from the team, etc.. the answer is somewhere in the middle.

I cringe reading some of these cats talk about mental health. Tourette's? Really? Do you niccas even know what that is? Spectrum? Jesus Christ just stfu. The yips thing is cool and it can explain a decent amount of things but all these other mild autism/[insert random bullshyt] diagnoses in here are trash and is part of the thinking that makes coming back from these types of issues so difficult.
 

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Shooting coaches are fukkin useless...unless he knows how to shoot 97% from the field I’m not sure how they truly improve someone’s game ..especially kids that have been playing ball since they were young

Essentially all they do is rebound and tell the person how many shots they made right?

I wouldnt say they're useless. but it takes YEARS to fix a jump shot / add anything substantial to your game.
 

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Whoever said Aspergers is on to something. I read 6-7 pre-draft features on him and he literally talks about the same shyt in every one. Plus his former private coach said Fultz was the clumsiest kid he ever seen. Even had a nickname for him. Also had an awkward social moment when followed by a mag cause he attempted to talk to a girl who didn't recognize who he was. It all makes sense. I think the NBA is too big for him and has made him regress w/ his condition. I may be wrong but a few of the articles he hinted about hating a lot of attention and he seemed happy people didn't know who he was when he was at Washington.

Edit: also the flat affect. His mom seems overprotective in an abnormal way. I've worked in mental health and have been around some folks who were on the spectrum. Just the consistency b/t all these different articles is odd. I mean he has similar quotes & stories of awkwardness in all of them. Plus he was about to be the #1 pick yet he's fixated on being cut from varsity as a sophmore in every fukking article.
 

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Whoever said Aspergers is on to something. I read 6-7 pre-draft features on him and he literally talks about the same shyt in every one. Plus his former private coach said Fultz was the clumsiest kid he ever seen. Even had a nickname for him. Also had an awkward social moment when followed by a mag cause he attempted to talk to a girl who didn't recognize who he was. It all makes sense. I think the NBA is too big for him and has made him regress w/ his condition. I may be wrong but a few of the articles he hinted about hating a lot of attention and he seemed happy people didn't know who he was when he was at Washington.

Edit: also the flat affect. His mom seems overprotective in an abnormal way. I've worked in mental health and have been around some folks who were on the spectrum. Just the consistency b/t all these different articles is odd. I mean he has similar quotes & stories of awkwardness in all of them. Plus he was about to be the #1 pick yet he's fixated on being cut from varsity as a sophmore in every fukking article.

To be fair, every prospect talks about the same things during every interview during the pre-draft process. They've been trained by their agents to give specific answers.

What's happened to him is a damn shame. He needs a fresh start somewhere new. All of this attention is not helping him. Playing with Jimmy Butler is probably not going to help either. If he was tough on KAT, could you imagine how he'd treat Markelle? Sheesh:wow:
 

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To be fair, every prospect talks about the same things during every interview during the pre-draft process. They've been trained by their agents to give specific answers.

What's happened to him is a damn shame. He needs a fresh start somewhere new. All of this attention is not helping him. Playing with Jimmy Butler is probably not going to help either. If he was tough on KAT, could you imagine how he'd treat Markelle? Sheesh:wow:


read the thread. ain't nothing normal about this shyt
 

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read the thread. ain't nothing normal about this shyt

I’ve been saying this since before the draft. Dude has always been peculiar but I don’t see how that explains the massive regression in his ability after summer league.
 
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