Delonte Holland suspended: the reason
October 24, 2007 by Tobias
I have read the news yesterday on eurobasket.com. It just said that the team suspended Delonte Holland from Virtus Bologna - a Euroleague contestant - because of problems with the coach for today’s Euroleague game against Zalgiris Kaunas.
In 2005 after playing for Atlas (Serbia-Montenegro) Holland, who played college ball at DePaul, got an offer from the Boston Celtics to join their training camp but did not make the jump to the NBA.
I wrote a quick email to Fabrice Turmel from - an Italian insider for Virtus Bologna - to ask him what really is going on with Delonte. Here is what he had to say:
Basically what happened is that Holland had a terrible game, got frustrated and said things to the coach he shouldn’t have. The president Sabatini said he was not sure to get back in the team because there are rules that he has to understand and if he doesn’t he’ll be sold. Apparently, that is not the first it happens to him. So he’s definitely out of (tomorrow’s) today’s euroleague game and for the following fixtures, we’ll just have to wait and see what the coach Pillastrini and Sabatini decide.
Well….if there’s anyone who should be banned for this is someone from the club. President, GM, coach or all 3.
There was never a question regarding Delonte’s skills and abilities. It was mostly a question about his head… known as a head-case (although that might not be the case…just the rumors), u should expect that when u sign a player. If you sign a trouble-maker and punish him for making trouble….
Damn, i had him in my ‘good’ Euroleague Fantasy team!
I was a teammate of Delont’s at DePaul and he is not a head case…he just wants to win real bad and he’s hard on himself, sometimes he lets his emotions take over. DH is a good guy.
I played with Delonte for 1 year at DePaul and I found him to be very selfish and overall a jerk. He is a great player but treats people like garbage if he doesn’t get what he wants or if you can’t “offer” anything to him. Hey, what do I know, I was just a walk-on for 1 year but this is what I experienced during my time on the team (2002-2003 season). I specifically remember him throwing a towel at the end of the bench during a time when Coach Leaito pulled him and the towel ended up hitting my teammate and I in the face and he shouted and cursed at us. Not a cool thing to do. He is just not a good person. Too bad he hasn’t grown up or becamed humbled by his experiences overseas. I am NOT surprised this happened.
Yes, he’s very tallented guy, but his character is awful. besides that, he’s not even trying in defence, the only thing he cares is to score many points… Too bad, he’s wasting his tallent like that.
Holland has been a head case since high school. He has a lot of talent and has always wasted it because of his head. If he ever matures he will be aweson