What a sad read.
Player coach physical altercations have happened before and it sucks one of the incidents happened on our team.
Anyone who watches Basketball probably remembers when Sam Mitchell made Rafer Alston cry and body slammed Vince Carter on a massage table.
Mental abuse by him is one thing and should not be tolerated at all, but physical abuse added is just not a good look and sours his reputation.
The fact he put fear into players maybe caused the player he had a altercation with to not say anything because he feared of the consequences from Sutter for doing so. Its often like that when someone is scared of someone.
Glad he is gone, hopefully all the people who came to defend him at all costs and called the players babies, millennials, cupcakes or whatever now realize what type of negative environment they dealt with, which was easy to see from the outside.
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