With the Dallas Mavericks, head coach Rick Carlisle quickly took action when Brendan Haywood tried to get to his jump hook. Carlisle called him out for looking off Nowitzki in favor of taking his “raggedy a** jump hook,” telling him to never do it again.
“In Dallas, Rick Carlisle pulled me to the side,” Haywood said. “The next game was like, ‘You see that guy in the corner just happened to be Dirk?’ He’s like, ‘That’s 20,000 points right there. Your job is to rebound and block shots. Don’t you ever look off Dirk to take your raggedy a** jump shot again.’
“I mean, raggedy a** jump hook? A little offended,” Haywood added. “My jump hook wasn’t raggedy.”
