Seeking Attention, Sean Williams Finds Trouble

damn that article makes it seem like he is mentally slow.

A headcase. He needs a baby sitter. With all the money involved, and all his talent, why haven’t the NETS provided the adult supervision Sean so desperately needs. I was an IDIOT at his age, and there was no money, and no one interested in me succeeding. He needs a parent or an Aunt or Uncle to keep him out of trouble and keep his head on straight. This is not rocket science. Won’t someone help Sean Williams?

mr erstein, you been continuously ranting about the Nets failing to arrange adult supervision for sean. Dave D’Alessandro addressed you towards the end of article: sean has rejected all forms of help and rejected his babysitter in his rookie year. sean is a toddler in a man’s body and if he don’t want a babysitter, no one can force one on him. it appears sean to this day doesn’t understand his career’s on thin ice.

A Babby sitter? The kid is a adult and growen up, he needs to learn to act like a man.

He sure does need to act like a man. Unless you’re going to lock him in the house he’ll always be in harms way. OK how many of us at any age would pick up a computer in a store and throw it? He’s just very immature. He can’t stand prosperity. He knows he just got back into the mix and he gets arrested? Seems like he has that entitlement mentality where he thinks he can do what he wants with no repercussions. He doesn’t realize there are tons of players overseas and in the D league that would do anything to get what he has…

I would lock his rear end in Jail, and leave it sit for 30 days maybe then he would become a better person? He seems to be a nice kid at times, but at times he really does some very dumb and odd stuff.

Look, he needs therapy to sort out his childhood.

re the babysitter…there was one, as the story notes, but the relationship “didn’t take”. A lot of young NBA players have people who live with them, in some cases family members, their first year. Brook and Robin Lopez have their older brothers living with them, for example.

There was a story about Kwame Brown a few years ago in the WashPost Magazine. The Wizards did not provide him with a “babysitter” or whatever you want to call it. When someone from the team had to go to his condo, they found suits rolled up in balls, McDonalds wrappers everywhere, a disaster area. They got him an assistant.

Nets realized after Zoran Planinic’s rookie year that they had made a mistake not helping him out in his homesickness and loneliness. (That plus Byron Scott’s regular dissing of him hurt his development.) To Planinic’s great credit, HE became Nenad Krstic’s buddy the next year. In spite of Serb-Croatian animousity, the relationship worked and Ed Stefanski credited Planinic with a large part of Krstic’s success in year one. But if Krstic had rejected Planinic, there was nothing the Nets could do.

Williams seems to have rejected intervention. Now, it may be too late.

Thanks Net Income. It’s amazing how people like to willingly ignore evidence that Sean should be held responsible for his actions and want to blame the Nets because it’s the hip thing to do.

It is very tedious to read the judgmental comments on this site about this kid. He is obviously not ready emotionally to handle the situation he is in. He’s young and it’s evident that unlike some athletes who are in the spotlight from an early age and are molded to deal with this, Sean has not been prepared for the stage he is on. He is not malevolent; I doubt he has a sense of entitlement; as Lucas says, he sabotages himself. If the Nets believe in his talent, they might consider making counseling or the acceptance of a mentor or companion a condition for his continued employment. The problem is, I think this kid may have mixed feelings about his position and doesn’t have the emotional resources or self-knowledge to work through those feelings and issues. I hope this has a happy ending —-I like him and think he could be a good player.

I talked with Sean yesterday he is is very upset with himself regarding his response to a very abusive cell phone clerk. I have also read the responses above and I think we all forget about many of the mistakes we all made when we were young and wish we could have made a different decision or action. Sean is a young person, thrown in a very competitive stressful league with many new freedoms and opportunties. He is also very talented and friendly with many fans who appreciate him as a person. If we give him support an a chance he will be a very good player in this league. Or as you have written; we could write him off; but what if people had written us all off when we made mistakes. Were would each of you be now???

Another point—-it is evident from this article that the BC security knew he was on campus all weekend signing up for summer classes and did nothing. Then they go after him at a game he’s been invited to by the coach. What’s that about?

To MH’s comment. Obviously Boston College does not have a communications major in their curriculum as they did not know Sean was banned from the campus.

Thanks for your comments GSHOCK—-I really wish the best for this kid and hope Nets fans will be cheering him on in years to come.

Off topic, but…..

Zoran Planinic! Wow, I completely forgot about him. What happened? I can’t believe I forgot about this.

What people fail to see is that Swat is always causing trouble. Once shame on them, twice shame on you.

@ GShock
It was his basketball coach that didn’t know and invited him to the game. The problem with this is that Sean knew he has banned and he should’ve rejected the invitation.

I hope Sean can come out of this and be a huge star in the league. But I’m not so quick to just say oh poor Sean becuase he’s a nice guy. He’s priveldeged becuase he has an opportunity to play in the NBA. And at this point in his career he hasn’t done enough in his NBA career that he can’t be cut.

If you look at the NFL and Plaxico Burris, he had similar issues with the law in Pittsburgh and coming late to meetings and getting fined and his attitude was “oh well”. The Giants will take him back because he’s a unique talent that they feel they need.

Sean is being looked at as another spoiled athlete that has an opportunity to make millions of dollars. Most athletes have beed coddled their entire life as soon as everyone knew they would be a star. If he can’t mature fast enough to handle it then that’s on him… no matter how many shots he blocks. I love his game and hope he’ll be a star for the Nets. But he’ll have to earn it. I know too many nice talented guys that you could never depend on. I hope Sean shows he can be depended on for a long time.

You ar right, Kevin. He should have rejected the invitation. He should have talked to his coach about it…On the other hand, you can’t imagine that Sean thought his coach’s invitation over road the restraining order?

At Billy—-the idea that Sean is “always causing trouble” is nonsense. His coach and teammates don’t agree with you…the press blows everything up…stuff that happened years ago and that a lot of teenagers do gets thrown in his face ad nauseum.

Imagine if the press had treated Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle the way they treat this kid. Every day would be another revelation…drinking, carousing,…and then there’s Ty Cobb’s racist attack on a doorman and viscious assault on a man in a wheel chair…he’s in the HOF! These are just a few examples of many…

The press has gone from valorizing people who were alcoholics, cheated on their wives, and ignored their kids, to making relatively insignificant indiscretions into big deals…Sean needs to be more self-aware and more in control and more mature but he is not “always getting into trouble” in any serious way. He is sabotaging himself however. He is the one who is most hurt by his own behavior.
But maybe he is just beginning to see that he has hurt his team as well—-Everyone has said he is sorry for letting everyone down…that he really feels bad about it. I get the feeling that maybe he is the sort of person who is more prepared to let himself down than to let others down and that just maybe he’ll get his act together as he really begins to understand that other people are relying on him. Maturity is a process…this may be a step…

Some of you obviously don’t spend much time working with adolescents and young adults.

MH

He was busted for Pot ( 1st strike)
Was thrown off the BC team ( 2nd strike)
He was thrown out of BC ( 3RD Strike)
He was banned from BC (4TH STRIKE)
He was Busted by BC police, and allmost got pepper spryed cause he was being a fool ( 5th strike)
He was busted for throwing a computer and making threats to someone (6th strike)

He has had more then enough chances to relize. The kid is a cancer and needs to be removed.

a very abusive cell phone clerk?? damn…he/she sounds mean…poor sean

Kudos to MH, some people here really don’t have a clue.

Sean needs to take his responsibility for his actions and maturity is a process, something that does not happen overnight. I don’t think he’s a bad kid at all because i’ve seen worse knuckleheads come thru the annals of the NBA, but he definitely needs to cut the crap. With that said, I hope he can still remain a part of this team because this kid can play a role for us. I hope the Nets brass sticks with him and gives him his last chance.

“billy Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm

What people fail to see is that Swat is always causing trouble."

This is an absolute lie. Its amazing what the moderators here at Nets Daily will allow and what posts they choose to delete. Not trying to cause trouble, just an observation.

Netsball Have you ever been the victim of a verbal racial attack on you and your family. What would you do, walk away?
To this day there are still too many racial bigots in this world and there is no reason in the world for anyone to have to put up with it. Sean goes into the cell phone store and some clerk with an IQ of 50 starts on him. Are you kidding?

Fight words with words. No excuse to throw a computer. Two wrongs don’t make it right.

At Billy concerning:

He was busted for Pot ( 1st strike)
Was thrown off the BC team ( 2nd strike)
He was thrown out of BC ( 3RD Strike)
He was banned from BC (4TH STRIKE)
He was Busted by BC police, and allmost got pepper spryed cause he was being a fool ( 5th strike)
He was busted for throwing a computer and making threats to someone (6th strike)

Strikes 2,3, 4, and 5 were mainly connected with strike one to my knowledge. Do you have actual knowledge that these 4 items concern 4 different infractions? If he was such a cancer, why did his BC coach recommend him to Rod Thorn as a draft pick? Why did he invite him to that game last month?

He has had more then enough chances to relize. The kid is a cancer and needs to be remov

Clarification:

I did not mean to copy and end my last post with “He has had more then enough chances to relize. The kid is a cancer and needs to be remov”

At lilbigman:
Sean did not throw the computer AT anyone. He shouldn’t have thrown it at all, of course; but don’t make it sound like he was committing assault—he was not charged with assault.