http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/ha...04/08terry.html <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Los Angeles -- Jason Terry has long said that he wants to spend his entire career with the Hawks. But based on his words after practice at Loyola Marymount on Wednesday, the fifth-year point guard sounded open to going elsewhere if it means he can be on a winning team. "Once you come and day after day, week after week, game after game and it's the same ending result, there's got to be a change," Terry said. "I'm not demanding no trade. At the same time, if it can help the situation . . . I'm tired of losing, man. I'm a competitor, man. And I know a lot of guys on this team want to win, but we don't have that winning vibe." Since Terry joined the Hawks as the 10th pick of the 1999 draft, the team has won just 36 percent of its games (131-364), never winning more than 35 in a season. Following a 105-89 loss in Sacramento on Tuesday, the Hawks are on pace to win a franchise-record low 23 games this season. Terry is usually upbeat and rarely known to lash out, but he is having a difficult year -- the first of a three-year, $22.5 million contract he signed as a restricted free agent this summer. He has already had a public spat with coach Terry Stotts -- "I wasn't impressed with his coaching, either," Terry said after a loss against Golden State. His scoring and assist numbers are down and, his best friend on the team, Lee Nailon, recently was cut. "This is it for me," he said. "This is the most frustrating year. I've been here five years [but] everybody needs a change at some point. If that's going to happen, I don't know. I've said it earlier -- Change sometimes is good. At this point, something has got to go. Something has got to happen." Stotts wouldn't dispute Terry assertion that the team lacks a winning vibe. "There's truth to that," Stotts said. "We're 10-26. There's not [a winning vibe], but you have to fight through that." Terry was angered during practice Wednesday, as the Hawks prepare to face the Lakers tomorrow, when he said a Hawks assistant coach told him that he hasn't played hard in three weeks. Terry wouldn't reveal the assistant's name but he couldn't hide his emotions as he slouched in his chair, rubbing his head uncomfortably. "This guy is telling me I ain't played hard in three weeks -- that's the low point for me," Terry said. "I ain't never heard that in my career. That's unheard of. If that's how you want to motivate somebody or muster up some wins, that's not how you do it. "I just totally disagree," he said. "How are you going to tell your starting point guard he ain't played hard in three weeks? What kind of example is that to everybody on the team? That's frustrating as a player -- to know that you are playing hard and to say something like that. That makes you want to fight." Terry scored eight points off the bench in Sacramento, playing limited minutes for the second consecutive game after catching the flu in Denver. "I still got the flu," Terry said. "I come out, give what I give in practice, and you still don't say I'm going hard. This is ridiculous, kid. . .You go out there, take an IV, and try to play a game. I don't know. What do you say?" Terry is averaging just 16.2 points and 5.1 assists this season, the lowest scoring average since his rookie year and the lowest assist average in two season. In the Hawks past 10 games, Terry is averaging just 11.6 points, 4.2 assists and is shooting 40.9 percent. Stotts didn't question the effort of his point guard. "I think he's trying," Stotts said. "I think everybody is capable of doing better. We're all dealing with losing. Trying is the first step. You can play hard and not always play well." Terry stresses that he isn't motivated by stats, just wins. But he said his struggles this season have nothing to do with the weight of playing up to his hefty contract. "It's not the weight. It's just a lot of unneccesary, not even distractions, but a lot of people worried about the wrong things," Terry said. "I just don't think everybody is on the same page. You got one guy on this page. Three guys over here on another. The coach has got 10 different pages. We've got to get on one -- and it's not happening." Terry signed an offer sheet with the Utah Jazz this summer and has watched it become one of the bigger surprises of the season. The Hawks will play the Jazz Saturday in Salt Lake City and Terry said he often wonders what it would be like to play for a winner. "Not just Utah," Terry said. "It's 27-28 other teams winning. Winning games and having fun. Even the teams that are losing, they look like they're having fun -- at least they are when they play against us." Terry added: "Yeah, I want to be here. I just bought a home in Atlanta. But the way it's going now, it's not going good. It's not getting better. I'm not management, I don't know what they can do, but we'll see. I like everybody on this team. I want to weather the storm, but at the same time, it's getting old. For real." </div>
Can hardly blame him man..they are a pretty pathetic team. For a real competitive cat I'm sure it's hard to suffer thru losing especially when it seems like management doesnt care a whole lot.
