I personally think preseason predictions are pretty much nonsense. Teams have not finished making moves, we don't know who will be healthy or not, young players (like CJ) can have break-out years. At best they are a rough guide. There are things I lose sleep over. Preseason predictions are not one of them.
I wouldnt say the Blazers over performed. I'd say they played to their potential. They played a very unselfish brand of basketball, that other teams couldn't find an answer for..."but coach their passing the ball, who knows who is going to shoot, they all shoot." The Blazers are better then last year with Evans and Ezeli, they will win more then the 44 they took last year, that number is a mediocre safe guess.
You kind of invite that kind of response when you begin your post with statements like "They really over performed last season. At least to any rational fan." Perhaps it's not your intention, but it comes off as implying that anyone who sees it differently is objectively wrong. The ironic part of that is that you are basically saying that anyone who predicted the team to be above .500 last year was irrational, yet those are the predictions that were most accurate. If the homers are closer to reality than the pessimists, which group was proven to be more rational?
Like my posts, and others like me are perceived wrong because we don't agree with the homers? Last year, the homers were. Other years, not so much
This. MM, its your insistence that rationality doesn't exist in Homers that is fairly irritating. Seems the pessimist were proven wrong and the Homers were proven to be more rational based on the outcome. EDIT: How do I remove the attached file? I didnt even mean to do that. I think its a screen shot from my work pc. lol.
LOL at owning. Sorry I didn't fall in line. Anything short of 55 wins wouls be stupid to guess. There
You sound silly when you continue to make irrational comments. It doesn't help your argument that you and the other pessimists are so rational.
How does the same person badgering me about the word rational, like your post? Is it just because it agrees with him? Not interested in conversation, just beating people down until they agree with the masses.
First, my name is Jason or Orion. No need to disrespect me like that. I'm not trying to disrespect you and I know your big on that. Do you not get his cynicalness(sp?) with the use of the word Irrational? I got it. Your insistence that your getting beat down is of your own opinion. You called fans who disagree with you irrational Honestly. What do you expect? How would you expect us to react? Until you start discussing your use of the word irrational and how it fits with fans who disagree with you, then you will never get a real conversation. You will only get.."beat down".
For the record, I don't take any of this seriously and Id STILL share a beer with you MM... but man your irrational behavior is not becoming when you call everyone else irrational for disagreeing with you and then go on a rant about how your getting picked on just because you don't agree with us... You do see the double standard right?
I brought up 4 very logical points as to why you are wrong, but apparently you didn't read it because it was a "book". It's not about being a "homer" or not. It's about having logical opinions... which you struggle with.
I brought up 4 points of disagreement hoping you'd have a logical, rational CONVERSATION about them, but you were too lazy to even read and just complained about it "being a book". And now you want to complain about others not being interested in conversation? Oh the hypocrisy...
Like you really don't even focus on basketball. Apparently to you there's a god damn line between "rational people" and "homers". If someone predicts a better season, then they're an irrational homer, no matter the logic and basketball knowledge they bring to the table. So whoever doesn't fall in line with you is irrational fuck (which you've called me before) and a homer. But then whenever someone logically disagrees with you, you complain about being "beaten down by the masses" and you post gems like this one: Sarcastically apologizing for not "FALLING IN LINE" ! Lmao.
