Do you think Mario Hezonja would punch his coach Frank Vogel in the penis if he knew that he could get away with it? Vogel, along with erstwhile head coach Scott Skiles, are the easiest culprits to blame for Hezonja’s lack of success in the NBA if you don’t want to blame Hezonja himself.
Hezonja would just walk up and be like “hey coach I want to talk about that set you had us run in practice,” and then when Vogel patiently starts explaining the X’s and O’s, Hezonja just gives him a surprise pop in the nards, BOOM, and runs away. I bet he would totally do that if he knew that there would be no repercussions from either a minutes perspective or a law perspective. I bet he would actually pay money to do that. Judging by the comments left on Hezonja videos by frustrated Croats, most citizens of Croatia would pay a significant sum of money to launch a crotch attack on Coach Vogel as well.
Flipping the question, do you think any member of the Magic front office wants to hit Hezonja in the balls? Even though he’s significantly improved, he’s not playing up to the level of a fifth-overall pick yet, and the front office might be more inclined to blame the player than the coaching. So John Hammond’s like “come see me in my office Mario” and then when Mario walks in there’s a surprise kamikaze assault on his wiener and berries area.
I guess what I’m trying to say is there’s probably bad blood and frustration on all sides of the issue, but we live in a civilized society where we (usually) try to resolve our differences through words and not through juvenile low-blows, for better or worse.