http://www.nba.com/reportcard/midseason/2017/blazers This is a steaming pile of shit. This was a last minute "Oh fuck! I forgot to write some shit about the Blazers!" Incident. I didn't read any others, I'm assuming those are better.
"...players like Allen Crabbe, Ed Davis, and Meyers Leonard have performed consistently off the bench..." WTF...has this guy even been watching this season. A D on Defense...should be an F
Too generous. Especially about our defense. I think I could've written something better in 5-10 minutes. Probably just because I follow the blazers way more than him. But it didn't seem like he knew anything about the blazers.
Ah. Well don't get too upset. League publications release this kind of pablum every year and typically try to go a little soft, mostly because they don't want to alienate fans.
Leonard has been consistently terrible, Davis has been consistently invisible. Crabbe has been somewhat up and down but mostly down by a pretty wide margin. I think he got that more right than wrong.
This is a weird year all the way around, we'd normally be bitching at the national media for underrating our guys, now we're bitching at them for overrating them, lol.
You're not getting it. It's written by a writer who gets paid by the NBA. He's going to be as charitable as possible, because he's there to promote the league's product, not be scathing and do hard-boiled analysis.
Blazers are harsh on anyone not blowing sunshine at the organization. I know of a number of people who they have put pressure on to try and be more of a homer 'fake news' type instead of being objective with what is really going on.
There's literally no way anyone can believe the sunshine crap they are spewing at this time of year.... the product is a fucking joke...people hopefully can see through it.
The Blazers still want to that to be the mantra. I've spoken to a couple people in that last 2 weeks that have expressed pressure they have received from the Blazers to paint a better narrative.
Casual fans, the type who aren't hardcore enough to go online to talk about the team or necessarily even watch every game, are susceptible to narratives.
Those are who I'm talking about. They watch more than one game of this team, and they'll know this team is crap... They don't need to talk about it with anyone else.
Not stupid but definitely easily influenced. Look at the people who get most of their news from Facebook.
Basically anyone who doesn't delve into a subject is highly susceptible to the dominant narrative about it, and a narrative can be anything. The Blazers (it sounds like) are trying to make their preferred narrative (probably something like "young, fun and rising") the dominant one.
