So Much Anger........

If I had a dollar for ever time Ive heard you say "some in this forum" or an iteration of that...

 

You should choose a healthier alternative.

 

I disagree. There are people on this forum who are perfectly capable of being positive and negative. There are some people who are always negative. There are some people who are angry at anyone who posts what they perceive to be negative.

 

Close to my word..."tired."

It's like the 20-year war in Afghanistan. In the absence of great success, GMs and coaches should last no longer than 3-4 years.

I'm exhausted from this Blazer era. The Coach and GM should have changed long ago.

 

You point out the name calling.
Good.
There are posters in here (2 buddies in particular) who seem to feel calling our "heroes" "fucking morons" etc; shows their expertise.
Ironically, they also chastise each and every post they disagree with.
I am often entertained by watching people who spend hours and hours per day spewing negativity toward the entire community they choose to reside in, and to no surprise, here they go again...
Being "right" isn't always worth it.

 

Olshey himself said those things about Simons and Hezonja, maybe not in the exact words but close enough to pass for quotation mark hyperbole. I had arguments with some posters here about Tolliver since I thought, right from the beginning he was a wasted signing, but people kept pointing to his 3 point percentages as if it covered up everything he's bad at. And do I really need to explain all the 'good riddance' sentiments about Aminu and Harkless?...this forum was filled with them as well as plenty of reassurances the Blazers would not miss them at all, and how the offense of the new guys would more than compensate for the loss of defense. That kind of stuff was all over this forum

https://theathletic.com/1256616/201...-talented-and-most-experienced-team-weve-had/

 

I know you don't like Olshey, Stotts, or CJ so your post is quite confusing.

Fans should've been okay with the team going from the WCF to a lottery team because of the moves? Shouldn't the expectation have been to grow upon last year's success? I don't believe this team is as bad as they are even with the injuries so I don't see a problem with questioning why they so bad this year and being frustrated after seeing success to see this team take a massive step backwards.

 

"The people that lash out at anyone that doesn't see the way they do" should be it's own category.

 

Yeah, because this type of posting style is really beneficial to the forum. You're awesome, I suck!

 

Fuck you man!

 

I don't know, I think I might be a homer, but it's not because I can't see the negatives. I just don't usually have a desire to post about them because it's not fun. Sometimes I get sucked in to being critical or arguing but most of the time I realize it's just not worth it to me and has no use. Other times I wonder why I even visit this forum again/still. That's not to say I think I'm a better fan than others, on the contrary I often wonder lately if I'm as much of a fan as others who are clearly more emotionally invested than me. Maybe I'm just apathetic, I really don't know.

 

to be precise, I'm generally ambivalent about Stotts. And yeah, I'm not a fan at all, of Olshey or CJ

but I've been really clear that I thought all the chatter about making it to the WCF was overrating the team, and ignoring that they got swept in the WCF. Several times I've mentioned I thought the yardstick for this team was not making it to the playoffs, but how they've been bounced from the playoffs for 4 straight years. A 1-16 record and 14 straight losses in those close0ut series says a lot more than 4 straight playoff appearances.

so yeah, I started the off-season with a lot lower expectations than most, and I thought the off-season generally sucked because I was not impressed with the additions of Bazemore, Hezonja, Tolliver, and the injured Gasol. Whiteside was the only addition I approved of, and I thought the CJ extension was stupid. I think somewhere here I predicted 45-47 wins as the ceiling. I thought the off-season was a bust, and yeah some of that was inevitable tracking all the way back to 2016

Like I said, HCP was rocking some I-told- you-so vibe, but we all do that at times.

I'm not happy, at all, about where the team is. And I think it's playing a little worse than I expected. But the most I expected from this team was a 1st round exit, and that's the truth. They might still exceed that, but I'd be pretty surprised if they did

 

We all have our own way of showing our fandom. And we are here to talk about our team. I take it for what it is.

 

The fact that we will have to wait for the next iteration of the PTB for success doesn't change the fact that I want them have success and the players get to where they want to be. My opinion is that it won't happen with this coach/front office, or maybe even the owner. Gotta wait for these contracts to run out...
I bleed red, black, white, that checkerboard stuff, sometimes dark grey...

 

So you are in category 4. Got it.

 

and what word would be acceptable to you to describe not all of the people?

 

I want to believe you got the joke..... but I'm not sure.

 

I totally did. Should have responded with, "NO, FUCK YOU!"

 

Sly usually just likes the post and ignores me