07-13-2022, 09:02 PM
(07-13-2022, 08:53 PM)F Gump Wrote: Kamm, I think it was incredibly disingenuous that when I said Skin said X, and you knew exactly what I was talking about and why, you used your selected-words-"quote" instead to try to shoot down what I was saying. You can't say it's an exact quote, when it's not, and it be honest. You only provided some of the words, chosen selectively.
It is not disingenuous. I had the elipses ("...") in there. I don't think the part I had originally redacted misrepresented his point at all. He was speaking non-linearly, referencing backward to different things (hence the past tense) and so I just originally cut those out because they distracted from his main point.
We are obviously reading him differently, but I am not misquoting him.
I think the first sentence says it all, "I know for a fact they have a plan they feel good about." To me that is everything (the hermeneutical key for understanding everything else he is saying). It sets what he is talking about as a speaker and he is speaking in the present tense and claiming it as a fact, not speculation. I don't know any other way to understand that sentence unless he misspoke either accidentally or purposely. But I am assuming he didn't as he didn't correct himself and everything else he said lines up with that IMO.
Again the past tense I read as him referring to this plan as being in place BEFORE the news leaked that JB was leaving and then the "wanted" was back in reference to him saying the Mavs chose not to extend him in the summer because they wanted to turn him into assets at the TDL. Which was a mistake, a big loss and fail, losing the asset for nothing.
Anyways, we will see if Skin knows what he is talking about or not. He might be lying and sunshine pumping to ease the pain of the fans. But I personally doubt that.