Sean Tuohy - "Zach Randolph is the reason the Grizzlies are much better"

I'd take him over LMA.

 

What you see below is all I could find this morning, and it's just a fraction of the incidents Zach had. There were bar room brawls (Green Cusina, The Ohm) Zach & Q Woods "allegedly" battered and harassed a man they thought ratted Woods out on the whole dog thing - he went to court for that. There was an article in either the Oregonian or Tribune that listed all his incidents and it was about 30 lines - I couldn't find it. Since we traded him he punched Phoenix Sun Louis Amundson and was suspended. He was arrested on DUI last April. It's not just the incidents either - go research the details of them, it's disgusting. A despicable human being. When he comes to Portland and kicks our butts, it's like rubbing salt in the wound. Why is HE motivated to be US? He'd probably still be here if he wasn't such a bad guy. Can you imagine a front line of Oden, Zach, LA? Instead they trade him for Channing Frye who they let walk for nothing.

http://nba.fanhouse.com/2007/05/29/mavericks-on-zach-randolph-hes-not-a-bad-ass-hes-a-dumb-ass/


•1995. Thirty days in juvenile detention for shoplifting.

•High school years: Thirty days of house arrest for battery.

•Thirty days in juvenile detention for receiving stolen property, a gun.

•2002. Underage drinking arrest in Marion, Ind., his hometown.

•2003. Team suspension by the Trail Blazers for sucker-punching teammate Ruben Patterson in practice and breaking his eye socket.

•2003. Arrested in Portland for driving under the influence of intoxicants and marijuana.

•2004. Accused by police of lying in an investigation of his brother shooting three men in an Indiana nightclub.

•2006. Suspended by the Trail Blazers for making obscene gestures to fans after a game in Indiana.

•2006. Sued by a Portland woman for sexual assault, though prosecutors didn't file criminal charges.

•2007. Left a strip club without paying the bill while he was on bereavement leave from the team and missed three games after the death of his girlfriend's cousin.

•2007. Earlier this month, police were called to the parking lot of a strip club where Randolph and teammate Darius Miles were part of a gathering and a gunshot was fired.

 

I think he also at some point had a three way with a friend and a prostitute, as I recall. I don't remember the specifics on that one. He also allegedly tried to intimidate the guy who told the police about Qyntel's dog fighting thing.

Anyway, of all that stuff, the DUI is the one that bothers me.

Patterson is an asshole. I'd lie to protect my brother too. The sexual assault/intimidation things didn't have enough legs to prosecute. Being in a parking lot where shots are fired is hardly criminal. Randolph isn't the first guy to ever leave a bar without paying his tab. How he gets his sexual jollies isn't my business.

Anyway, some guys just need to get bounced to several teams before they finally get the message that it's time to grow up. I imagine it started getting old, having to constantly move him and his posse from town to town, getting left off the All Star ballot, etc.

I really do enjoy watching his offensive game. He's still a little bit of a ballhog, but he is such a great shooter and a dogged rebounder. Still a crummy defender, but he's reached the same point Amare did where you pretty much have to live with it for all the great things he brings to the game.

 

Me too. He's a really good player. I wish he was a decent human being, and still a Blazer (I'd live with his poor defense - plus, we have Greg/Joel)

I don't buy that he's turned it around. I can't think of one case where a guy that has constantly been in trouble since childhood turns it all around. His issues will resurface again, you can count on it.

 

Sure we did. He's always been portrayed as "soft as a tissue" or Charmin soft. Portland fans always take offense.