06-26-2021, 10:07 PM
(06-26-2021, 10:00 PM)DallasBasketball Wrote: I think the mental block is bc I don’t see the two outcomes as mutually exclusive.
Someone being recommended meaning someone else is slighted.
I think of ‘slighted’ as meaning the definition ‘insulted’, in a direct way.
For me to wrap my head around what’s being said is that an insult can mean anything someone finds offensive and thus a slight can be indirect as long as someone finds it offensive.
Maybe we're just talking semantics.
I think of "slight" as treating someone as not important, as if they don't matter, as not giving them the respect they deserve. It seemed like his comment was the essence of that.
It also seemed like a conscious effort to undermine his own assistant's quest for a job.
I think it was intentional, given Carlisle's propensity to consider his words, but I will allow for the possibility that a slight is in the mind of the beholder.