Brendan Haywood opens a can of whup-ass

Speaking to Mike Wise on his daily radio show, Wizards center Brendan Haywood went after former coach/sparring partner Eddie Jordan with the biggest stick he's got."Let me ask you a question though," he said. "If a coach and a player aren't seeing eye to eye, why is it always the player's fault? I never ever said anything negative about Eddie Jordan, but why is it always the player's fault? At some point you've got to look at who's he playing. Hey, if I'm not playing behind Yao Ming or Dwight Howard, I'm gonna sit down and be quiet. My thing is this: you've got to play your horses. I felt I was the best center we had on the team, I think I got a chance to show that."And I've always said one thing, if you give me consistent minutes I'll be consistent. Even before that, when Etan and Kwame were both hurt, I had a great year then. But when they came back, my minutes were scattered again, and as a player I couldn't understand that, and I didn't want to accept that role."..."I feel there has to be a level of accountability on both ends. You know, if you're not playing your best players, then you're doing your team a disservice, especially when you're doing it to try to make a point, when you're trying to spite somebody. You know, you can't go out there and play against Ilgauskas with guys that are 6-8, 6-9. You're hurting the team. You're hurting D.C. It's not about you; it's about the team."That last bit is particularly good, as it goes after Jordan AND Etan Thomas, Haywood's other, more literal, sparring partner.Haywood is proud, prickly and very opinionated, so he's going to say things like this from time to time. He also happens to be correct. I often defended Eddie Jordan's coaching decisions, but I don't understand, to this very day, why he insisted on limiting Haywood's minutes no matter how well he played and how poorly his substitutes played. It didn't make sense then, it doesn't make sense now, and you don't have to be Brendan Haywood to wonder about it. Let's hope Haywood finds Flip Saunders' coaching more to his liking. After all, Haywood's contract is up after the 2009-10 season and it sure would be nice to have him around longer than that.In other Brendan Haywood news, he'll be hosting a one-off show on 106.7 on Friday from 7-10 PM, talking NBA, Redskins, you name it. Here is what he'd like to ask Gilbert Arenas:Number one, the question everybody wants to know: How's the health, how you feeling right now? I want to know that, too; that has a big effect on my season. Second of all, I've got to ask him about the new book, and who signed off to give Gil a book. Last but not least, this would probably be a mistake, I'd ask him to make a prediction where we're gonna finish next year and how he'll do individually. Knowing Gil, that could get wild, when you give Gilbert that type of freedom, but hey, it makes for good entertainment, so why not. I don't know about staying home on a Friday night just to listen to a radio show, but if you're near a radio on Friday night, give it a listen. Seems like Brendan is already thinking about his next career.