Damage control is in full effect at Verizon Center. Gilbert Arenas spoke to the media yesterday and took swipes at Caron Butler, but before the day was through the players spoke to one another and cleared things up, according to reports in the Times and Post. Brendan Haywood didn’t talk to the press, instead using his blog to clear up misconceptions about comments that sounded like swipes at Arenas but were actually meant for the whole team.
Even head coach Flip Saunders took the issue head on, as you can see in my story. In fact, here’s more: “What we’ve got to get back to playing within a system We can’t let other things bother us, whether it’s personalities. We have to put that aside because everyone – I can put everyone in that room, sit everyone down and go through a film session, and when they got out of that room, they’d think they were the worst player in the NBA because that’s how those film sessions are. We’ve got to look at the positives of what we have, and the positives each players bring and not worry about the negatives because everyone has warts.”
