The pathetic shower of undeserving praise and sympathy also known as Carmelo Anthony's return

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Ok your one fan out of like what, a lot? The majority of the Piston fans are not going to have THAT same opinion as you.

 

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I highly disagree.

 

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Ok first off if your going to say you highly disagree, you need to tell me why. Second off, that would be exaclty like me saying a couple days ago that the majority of fans of the denver nuggets will not give Melo an ovation when he returns. Did you watch Melo's return Mobruler? Good, case and point.

 

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you guys get into petty arguments. but atleast Iverson is keeping his cool.. thats food for a board.

 

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I'm saying that I highly disagree that Pistons fans would glorify Chauncey's return if he were suspended and cost us games in a playoff run because of an inability to act like a responsible member of our team. I definately wouldn't expect the PA announcer to suck his ass followed by a standing freaking ovation by the fans. That's way overkill and I'm shocked it happened. It's disgusting. I hope Denver misses the playoffs now and then you guys can give him another ovation.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mobruler @ Jan 23 2007, 10:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If Chauncey decked some guy and cost us a handful of games by getting suspended for a month in a playoff hopeful season, I'd be pretty pissed and wouldn't be glorifying him when he returned.</div>I remember the Pistons giving Ben Wallace a huge standing ovation, the day he returned to the Palace after his 6 game suspension courtesy of the brawl. He was the fire that started one of the worst moments in basketball history and Detroit fans still embraced him. You have no room to talk about Nuggets fans.Feel free to respond to my post (which you ignored)

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mobruler @ Jan 23 2007, 10:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm saying that I highly disagree that Pistons fans would glorify Chauncey's return if he were suspended and cost us games in a playoff run because of an inability to act like a responsible member of our team. I definately wouldn't expect the PA announcer to suck his ass followed by a standing freaking ovation by the fans. That's way overkill and I'm shocked it happened. It's disgusting. I hope Denver misses the playoffs now and then you guys can give him another ovation.</div>Ok now you just bein stupid. Denver is going to make the playoffs smart one, and you can videotape that ovation and watch it over and over again and picture Iverson3 saying to you, "I told you so."

 

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I understand what mobruler is pointing out but I think fans \will cheer there team player(really depends on the situation as well). Especially one whose the face of the franchise. He's not going to booed or shunned on his return by the home crowd. Especially in a situation where the Nugs fans were pretty much defending Melo's stance in the fight. So it didn't surprize me for him to get a positive reaction.

 

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If the NBA opened a franchise in Bethlehem, and the Bethlehem Stars drafted Jesus with the #1 overall pick to be the star player in his hometown... and he decked some dude and missed 36 days of action and cost his team a handful of games... I wouldn't expect him to get a standing ovation when he returned much less a reach-around from the PA announcer.For the record I thought the applause Ben Wallace got after his return from the brawl was innappropriate. With Ron Artest decking fans (for whatever reason) the feeling around here shared by many was that Ben Wallace was protecting the Pistons fans, so-to-speak. I think there are alot of intangibles in that which make it an unfair comparison.

 

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lol don't compare jesus to an idiot pothead.

 

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By the way, at what point is the line drawn? Should Lakers fan have praised Kermit Washington when he returned after breaking Rudy Tomjanovich's face because he was their guy?

 

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The fans know that he messed up, and they are just accepting him back. There is nothing wrong with cheering for him when he comes back. Even though he hurt his team greatly by punching a guy in the face, the fans have obviously looked at that a different way. They look at it in the way that their 30 point scorer is back, and now he gets to play along side another 30 point scorer. The fans are excited about the teams remainder of the season...

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mobruler @ Jan 24 2007, 12:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>By the way, at what point is the line drawn? Should Lakers fan have praised Kermit Washington when he returned after breaking Rudy Tomjanovich's face because he was their guy?</div>Thats a totally different situation. Even though what Carmelo did wasn't right, he at least had "somewhat" of a reason to do it. I dont think there was much of a reason at all for Kermit to punch Rudy. Plus, look at the outcome of both. They arent even close to comparable what so ever. Rudy got his face broken...

 

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wtf? There was NO REASON AT ALL for melo to punch mardy. Things were settling down at that point, and Isiah had even warned melo so he knew it was going to happen. Pointless stupid violence.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mobruler @ Jan 23 2007, 11:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If the NBA opened a franchise in Bethlehem, and the Bethlehem Stars drafted Jesus with the #1 overall pick to be the star player in his hometown... and he decked some dude and missed 36 days of action and cost his team a handful of games... I wouldn't expect him to get a standing ovation when he returned much less a reach-around from the PA announcer.For the record I thought the applause Ben Wallace got after his return from the brawl was innappropriate. With Ron Artest decking fans (for whatever reason) the feeling around here shared by many was that Ben Wallace was protecting the Pistons fans, so-to-speak. I think there are alot of intangibles in that which make it an unfair comparison.</div>Are you freakin crazy or something? Why would you compare Jesus and Carmelo Anthony? Just doesn't work. And also, I don't know what your reason is behind your point. If your star player went out for 36 days for hitting a guy, what would the crowd do in your opinion? Act like nothing ever happened? No.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mobruler @ Jan 23 2007, 10:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm saying that I highly disagree that Pistons fans would glorify Chauncey's return if he were suspended and cost us games in a playoff run because of an inability to act like a responsible member of our team. I definately wouldn't expect the PA announcer to suck his ass followed by a standing freaking ovation by the fans. That's way overkill and I'm shocked it happened. It's disgusting. I hope Denver misses the playoffs now and then you guys can give him another ovation.</div> Denver wasn't even in a playoff runit was Mid-December

 

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People in Denver didn't expect a playoff bound season?

 

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some fans act differently. simple as that.the home fans hav a soft side 4 melo since he's their star player.

 

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OMG the fact that people expected Denver playoff bound again is EXACTLY WHY they should boo him. He F*cked their run up, he's an idiot. I'd boo Amare if he did this, even though the Suns would probably do well without him

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Is anyone else a little taken aback by the aura surronding Carmelo's return? Maybe it was the over-joyed "He's baaaaack!" from the Denver PA announcer during Carmelo's introduction. Or how the crowd had their arms wide open and seemed almost sympathetic of his hiatus. It could be how Carmelo seems to think he can insult the intelligence of the Denver crowd by having his PR write up a cheesy apology letter in hopes of having everyone forget what he did and somehow love him more... and somehow it worked.It is what it is and this moment should not have ever been celebrated because it should not of ever happened. Carmelo should have shut up, the PA announcer should have shut up, and the fans should have smartened up. He should have come back with his tail between his legs until it blew over. Instead he almost seems victimized. He punched another player in the face and cost the Nuggets games in return. Why are people associated with the Nuggets naive enough to celebrate the end of the punishment given to their player who made a complete lapse in judgement and totally disregarded the well-being of the city and the team.Durr?</div>What do you expect them to do, sit in silence? It's all a confidence booster, when your out of basketball for 36 days you need a standing ovation like that. Nuggets fans finally have something to be happy about with Iverson and Carmelo. He's our franchise player and they are going to support him no matter what he does. Their so used to losing, they are going to get excited about small things. We had 13 straight losing seasons before Carmelo Anthony arrived, he is our savior and everybody in Denver knows it.There isn't a thing wrong with it, their happy to have a winning team again. You need to stop finding excuses to hate on this team, because you're logic isn't valid. I guarantee if Chauncey Billups came back from a 15 game suspension and your team went 7-8 during that stretch that you would be cheering him on as well. Obviously, that's hypothetical.I'm still waiting for you to respond Mobruler...<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>OMG the fact that people expected Denver playoff bound again is EXACTLY WHY they should boo him. He F*cked their run up, he's an idiot. I'd boo Amare if he did this, even though the Suns would probably do well without him </div>How did he ruin our playoff run? We're still going to make the playoffs either way, we're only 4 ? games back from the North West Division title. He made a mistake and it happens, NBA Hall of Famers have done similar or worse things and people forgive and forget. You make it seem like he's the only one to get suspended.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>By the way, at what point is the line drawn? Should Lakers fan have praised Kermit Washington when he returned after breaking Rudy Tomjanovich's face because he was their guy?</div>I don't agree with what Kermit Washington did, he almost killed Rudy T. Although, I can understand why the fans would welcome him back with open arms. That was Kermit Washington's role on the Lakers, he was signed on the team to protect Kareem Abdul Jabbar in these types of situation. He saw Kevin Kunnert roughing up Kareem so he went over to protect him. Rudy T was running behind Washington to help his teammate and Washington turned around and swung.Fighting during games back then was normal, that's why each team had a bruiser on it's roster to protect it's stars players in a dangerous situation. Kermit Washington was the Lakers bruiser, he did his job.