"As Bonzi Turns" <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">What it does mean is ... well ... they'd better explain it. "I don't think it's any secret that Bonzi and I have struggled to find common ground," Van Gundy said. "I didn't think it had a chance of working for the last two to three weeks. "He called me about a week ago, and we talked and he wanted to give it another opportunity. I thought about it. We talked again on Friday and again (Sunday), and we're going to give it a final go. "I think there's been frustration on both sides, certainly where neither one of us has gotten what we expected from the other. That being said, as I've told our team, it's not about me, not about Bonzi. It's not about 'me-or-Bonzi.' " After spending an extra 30 minutes following practice in shooting drills, Wells, 6-5, walked off the court wearing an ear-to-ear grin. "It's kind of like home, someplace I'm used to," he said. "I'm happy to be back. It's been a long time coming, I guess. Whenever your love is taken away from you a little bit, you're a little sad. But I'm happy I'm back and ready to start playing." Wells, 30, also played the role of the excited, chastised pupil willing to do anything to please. Has he been hurt? "My feelings," he said, chuckling. "It was just all about coach. Coach was going to let me know when he thought I was ready. He gave me the nod (Sunday)." What had changed? "I don't know," Wells said. "Coach just called me. I explained how I'm ready to go. He told me he's ready for me to go. That's basically how it happened. "It's all about coach. I feel like I can play always. Whatever coach says, I'm going to do. He's the coach, I'm the player. It's all about the team. If he thinks I'm going to be with the team, I'm going to be with the team." Signed on the eve of training camp after turning down a four-year, $36 million offer from his former team, the Sacramento Kings, the free-agent Wells took a two-year, $5 million deal to join the Rockets. With a salary of just $2 million this season, he was triumphantly regarded by management as a coup who could provide another big gun, a third option offensively, along with McGrady and Yao Ming.</div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Source</div> I thought it was a 5 year 36 million dollar deal. Which is 7.2 million dollars a season. 4 years at 36 is 9 million a season. What was Bonzi smoking? He came to Houston taking a 5th of what he could have made just to contend. He also expected to be cut some slack, but this is JVG we are talking about.
Good attitude by Bonzi. Hopefully this experience will have motivated him to work hard and gotten the message across that he will be treated no differently.
