03-02-2025, 02:43 PM
(03-02-2025, 10:13 AM)hakeemfaan Wrote: There is this and the Nico is a terrorist thread. Can we who refuse to move on until Nico is gone ( sorry JubJub and Corby who are tired of us and want us to move on), have these two threads for our group therapy? There are plenty of other threads on this board that folks who don’t want to delve into negativity can choose from.
Game thread. Used to be in the pages. Now barely has two in a home game with Giannis. Why are the Nico positive guys not filling that thread?
Why not talk about all our future assets so that we can do a Cleveland like reboot even after they lost Kyrie and lost LeBron twice? Assets. Oh wait?
Why not talk about the vision of Nico? I am not seeing it given we got a guy who slows down the game more and increases the burden of facilitating and creating his own shot on a 33 year old Kyrie, but maybe I can be persuaded. Who is stopping anyone from starting those threads?
Why not talk about how this GM and ownership is commmitted to spend for good quality players provided they are not lazy and have no bad habits off the court. Players like Brunson and Grimes. Oh wait again.
Why not talk about how our GM will make shrewd deals and ensure we don’t get fleeced?
Who exactly is stopping anyone from these countless threads. I give my word I won’t come and vent on those threads.
Go ahead and start those threads and pump up the sunshine to borrow a term from the past on these boards.
For half a second I thought you were making a serious proposal. Then it devolved into yet another snarky attack on anyone who dared say something (anything) positive about the Mav's in recent weeks. The real answer to all of your "why not talk..." questions is easy. It will be met with posts like this.
Even if you somehow lived up to your "promise", I have no confidence others will follow suit. This place is an absolute beating to read. Somehow the biggest troll (being ignored by many) hasn't been banned yet and one of the biggest contributors to constructive conversation on this board just had a post deleted? That's incredibly short sighted. BTW, if we aren't going to ban this guy, could we at least stop quoting him. Ignore works on posts, but if you guys keep quoting him then he's impossible to ignore. Stop feeding the obvious troll.
At some point, some of you have to decide what you really want. This used to be a place known for intelligent basketball conversation. It has become an echo chamber. The problem with echo chambers is the people who want to think through issues with more depth (or talk about something other than Luka) will just leave (or be run off). It's death by a thousand cuts. Trying to contain this "therapy" to a thread or two would actually be a helpful start.
You aren't really arguing with anyone. Show me the post where someone said "way to go Nico, that was awesome". All you are doing is making this a miserable place to be. Its maddening and it crowds out reasonable conversation. Are you more concerned about venting and proving to the world how right you are or are you more concerned about having a decent place for good basketball conversations going forward. If we insist on the former, we will eventually lose the later.
If a tree falls in just two threads, but no one is around to read it, does it really matter?
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