Negativity, especially in game threads

Loyalty to the team is great. You have something to latch onto and root for. But you aren't going to change the majority of the posters and the way they communicate.

Pick and choose what you want to read and move on. I think of it as like a salad bar. I choose what I like and leave the rest.

 

Did you just make a Big Trouble In Little China reference?

 

For real: I make plenty of positive posts about the players. My positive to negative post ratio has to be at least 10:1. I had nothing but good things to say about Crabbe and Harkless. I even made positive comments about parts of Aminu's overall game. I think I have the right to observe when a starter on a playoff team I love is destroying us with repeated clueless play and comically bad shooting. It's part of being a fan. I mean King was upset some of us were saying we thought one Blazer was better than another. Come on.

 

King has his own reasons for reacting the way he does to the negative stuff, but for me (and I think a lot of folks) there's a line between the player and the act that sometimes gets blurred, and that's when threads like the game thread piss me off.

 

One of the best from the 80's!

 

Chinese have a lot of hells.

 

I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

 

Which Lo Pan are you talking about, the little basketcase on wheels or the ten-foot-tall roadblock?

 

Some of you guys can try to rationalize it all you want. The truth is, the negative comments, especially those in game threads, are read by the players. At some point, all of the negative talk DOES have an affect on the players.

Think of it this way, some of you have jobs, maybe.
Would you like to keep getting negative messages from a bunch of outsiders that you do not know, or can see? Or more important, getting negative messages from people that do not know you? Would you like to read they want you gone from your job because of how bad you are at some part of your job?

Only post comments you would say to the player in person. Constructive criticism can be useful, if done correctly. But it can also be harmful if done improperly. Much that is posted here is destructive criticism.

When making constructive criticism, a successful technique to use is the sandwich technique. Place a negative between two positives. Example, I like how player X makes a high % of 3 pt shoots. But his assist to TO ratio needs work, he needs to work on making better passes. Sure glad we have his better than average free throw shooting on our team.

Negative venting on the internet is for babies.

 

Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes."

 

Well King, do what you must. I for one will miss your enthusiasm. Be well.

 

I don't understand all the negativity either... the Blazers supposed to be rebuilding this year and obviously they're way ahead of schedule. It kills me that people can't give them any credit for making the play offs and then getting to the 2nd round because of other teams' injuries. This happens every single year and that's exactly why we play the games. Did Memphis get an asterisk last year in the 1st round because they were playing the Blazers without Wes?

Nobody thinks this is a championship team (well maybe KingAJS does but he's been a lot more right about this team than most of us) but this experience is priceless. They are so young and need to understand what it feels like to play far into the play offs even if you don't win. Neil Olshey is going to make some tweaks in the off season. We're going to continue to get better. And I really feel like if the Blazers had done a better job of keeping the Warriors off the offensive boards it would've been a tight game. I can't wait to see how they do in the Moda! I think the Blazers are going to make a series out of this and I'm going to enjoy every second win or lose.

 

You were not put upon this world to "get it"!

 

Would you stop rubbing your body up against mine, because I can't concentrate when you do that.

 

There are some people who interpret any discussion on how to improve the team as "negative." If you take every sign of frustration or desire for improvement as "negative", then this is a very negative place.

IMHO, if you are rooting for the team to succeed - that is not "negative." YMMV.

 

Sorry, just thrilled to be alive.

 

Fatherhood dragging you down?

 

Or maybe it's just time for some of us to accept the we "deserve to lose for what we did to the Jazz"... what do you think e?

 

Son of a bitch must pay!