Why was reeves nelson kicked off team

He was one of the top players on the squad last season, averaging But after being a poor teammate this season and failing to change, he was kicked off the squad. Nelson received his first suspension after missing a team meeting the day after the Bruins lost their season opener to Loyola Marymount. He was reinstated after being forced to miss the next game — a loss to Middle Tennessee State.

Coach Ben Howland suspended him indefinitely after his poor behavior on the bench that game. Howland finally kicked Nelson off the team Friday. There I gooooooo. What sucks beyond the disappointing season, is what Nelson cost the team.

Garcia was ultimately kicked off the Gamecocks team by head coach Steve Spurrier. With luck, Nelson will pull himself together before he meets a similar fate from Coach Howland.

Luckily, there remains ample time for a turnaround. A series of eminently winnable non-conference games will ensue before the Pac season gets underway after Christmas. The Pac again looks to be perhaps the weakest major conference in the nation, as only Stanford has thus far shown signs of significant improvement. The ballyhooed frontcourt has been out-rebounded in almost every game. This was near blasphemy.

He disagreed. His eyes lasered over the floor and fell onto one mohawked Bruin. Are you kidding me? A lot had changed since that day. The Bruins stayed unimpressive, lost Malcom Lee to a head-scratching NBA draft declaration and guard Jerime Anderson never became the player they thought they had. But last year, things looked promising as Nelson actually developed into a low-post force.

He posted impressive numbers of Now, at , the Bruins hold the second-worst record in the conference and Nelson has been kicked off the team. He messed up. Then he messed up again. Then he messed up beyond repair and his own parents have supported the move. All of a sudden, the forward expected to lead the Bruins back to relevance has been stripped of his blue and yellows. Is this a case of a simple sour apple, or was the relationship doomed from the start? Howland scored major points by landing him.

But Reeves had suffered ankle injuries during his senior year that made him a shadow of the explosive leaper that he had previously been. So maybe UCLA scored him, and maybe the other programs backed off and left him. Whatever the case, Nelson filled a role in his freshman year and blossomed in his sophomore.