Despite arriving at Maccabi Tel Aviv with quite a few question marks regarding his character, the team says Wade Baldwin was a great addition to their dressing room. Haggard, who came with a problematic image, turned out to his new friends to be a completely different, more mature character, and becoming a father also helped the process.
But his Olympiacos teammates, including Brandon Poole, still remember lesser moments of the guard by their side. The American said in an interview abroad: "I tried to take him under my wing, but he didn't really want it. He caused a lot of problems in the dressing room and loved to fight."
Brandon Paul (@BP3) discusses a bumpy season with #OlympiacosBC, the reasons a talented squad faltered & what the Reds' future may hold.
He also refers to his relationship with Wade Baldwin & #paobc's interest & recounts a story with Sasha Vezenkov 👀https://t.co/RxK55CXEzz
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"His approach to every conversation was unfounded. He's the most confrontational person I've ever been around during my career. In my opinion, he's an NBA talent, I think he's one of the most talented guards. But a lot of things he did, he said, made him a kind of pariah."
Paul went on to describe a difficult situation: "We found out (with proof) that he was involved in an Instagram account that was trying to cause big problems in the group. It made him lose the trust of the team, and nobody really spoke to him for the rest of the season."
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