How is Colangelo Aldridge's boss or employer? He was invited to a camp, and he declined for personal reasons that Jerry deemed not satisfactory at the time. If Colangelo still feels that way now, or if he is butthurt that Aldridge didn't tell him about his mom, that's his problem. If he is going to exclude Aldridge from a future at Team USA even after knowing about LaMarcus' mom (nice jab about her "maybe" having cancer, btw), I say fuck him and fuck Team USA. To the substance of my post, yes, it is irrelevant. I'm sorry you can't grasp that. Atheists and apparently Mormons know a lot about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Who cares?
I bet you got a rush of adrenaline when you wrote this. Did it sound tough in your head as you typed it?
This explains the odd tangents that you seem to showcase in most of your posts. I do appreciate you trying a different variation of "I'm too good to read your posts, but I'm going to comment on it anyway because I really do care" routine.
"Continue to raise the issue?" I refuted (one time, not necessarily "continuing" with actual reports and quotes the reasoning that people should feel like shit for some reason because LMA didn't attend the USA camp (again) after being invited, now that he says the reason was to be with his ailing mom. My only opinion about the issue was that LMA didn't give a good reason for not wanting to be there (because I'd read it in the quoted report), and that all he had to say 4 months ago was "guys, I'd love to be there, but Mom's got cancer". Or, "Sorry, Mr. Colangelo, I'd really like to be part of the team, but I need to take this summer off to be with my sick mom". Instead, he "didn't give a satisfactory reason". Would that have impacted her care somehow? Telling people about his reason for not being there is mutually exclusive with her getting better? Then why's it coming out now? The "facts" are: 1) LMA didn't go to the Team USA camp, even after being told that it would negatively impact his chances for being invited for the 2012 team. 2) When told it would negatively impact his chances for the team, he told Colangelo he "just didn't want to do it." 3) LMA's mom and her health is neither my, nor Colangelo's business. I pray she makes a full recovery, but it's none of my business. Now that I've demonstrated that I know the facts, and you're placing ignorance on the wrong head, I'm going to drop some opinion. It's totally LMA's call to make his decision private or not. It's totally LMA's decision whether he wants to rest up in the summers, and it's totally his decision to not play for Team USA. He's a big boy, and doesn't need to listen to message board jackholes and their opinions. If he ever wanted to play for Team USA, though, he didn't (imho) make the right decision not to tell the President of Team USA. And that was my point. I don't feel bad at all for stating my opinion (either today or 4 months ago) that blowing off Colangelo showed he didn't want to play for Team USA. I certainly don't think that qualifies as a "fact", like you assert.
I read enough of your posts on Aldridge/Team USA to know your position on it. Now that more information is available, you continue to drag up opinions (like Colangelo's) that were based in ignorance. If Colangelo still has the opinion that Aldridge's reason is not satisfactory, and blackballs him from Team USA, then he's an even bigger douchebag than I previously thought he was. I think him going public with his interpretation of Aldridge's reason was completely unnecessary as well. I would expect somebody with his experience to not cry to the media about Aldridge declining his invitation, and his opinion on the reason for it. I actually lost a lot of respect for Colangelo because of your post, so I suppose that is a positive, and I did learn something, so I thank you.
Yes, I'm too good to read your posts, but I'm going to comment on it anyway because...I really do care? This is going too far. Where did you get that part?
Because other than Karl Malone and Tim Duncan (who was really a center), which PFs have had both over the past 10 years? Fantasy basketball does not win titles. Finding players to fill specific roles does. If Oden can actually stay healthy, Aldridge is the perfect compliment to him.
Aldridge handled the Worlds badly. Why oh why did we get rid of Zach? Oh yeah, so Aldridge could improve. And look at which one improved!
That depends. Will anybody ever know all the facts? Probability says never. What is the definition of all the facts? Do you really need all the facts to make a rational decision? Or do you only need some of the facts? As was also pointed out up above, the same could be said of theism. There is no more proof there is a god, then there isn't a god. So aren't all the believers in the same quandry as non believers? People on this planet have believed all sorts of dumb shit over the years. Hell it was only a few thousand years ago that masses of them worshiped roman gods who amazingly enough, were just sham priest who used their power to control the population. What a coincidence.
I know. I posted it. I just admit that I don't know, which is why I generally avoid these topics other than to point out literal differences between atheism and agnoticism. Some people, like me, are comfortable not knowing. Others pretend to know, one way or another, without really knowing.
I think you are confused about what I'm confused about. I get it that there is a difference between calling what someone wrote stupid and calling the author an asshole. That doesn't confuse me at all. I'll take a shot at what I think you (and Minstrel) are saying the rules are: We can call what someone writes stupid. We can call what someone writes asshole-ly. We cannot call the author stupid. We cannot call the author an asshole. I don't see much difference in the level of insult (and both are clearly meant to be insulting) by calling what someone wrote stupid, or calling what they wrote asshole-ly. Then there's the grey area where MIXUM replies, "dont be stupid.", which seems like it might be attacking the poster, but might just be a shot at what was written, since it wasn't edited. Go Blazers
