Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[Scott41theMavs]

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?

Well said. 

I only know of one poster here who might be "in favor of the trade" - someone whose opinions and posting character I have held in very high regard in the past, although I'm a little worried about him with that take... I've noted some others who had issues with Luka who are thus less angry with the trade than most (e.g. RT), but most of them recognize that the trade was a disaster.

In the end, though, it's really the contrast between the venting that some continue to need (including trolls who hammer it... and hammer it... and hammer it... as if the rest of us didn't know it was a bad trade - by the way, the specific troll you're talking about liked your post, which I think is pretty funny), and those of us who are a little more stoic - "Let's just discuss the team as it is now and moving forward, recognizing that things are pretty bleak, but without constantly referencing the atrocity that took place last month." I'm in the latter camp, of course. 

I'm not necessarily in favor of segregating. My version of what you're saying is that, as a member of the latter group, I'm willing to tolerate in other parts of the board the posts of the folks in the former group, whose pain is extremely understandable, as long as they also tolerate those of us who, in their view, have moved on "prematurely." All of us are entitled to our opinions and our approaches to fandom. Except the one troll. It would be great if the mods got rid of him, or at least if, as you say, folks would stop feeding him.