Posted by nixluva:
Posted by Bippity10:
I love when you disagree with me and then echo everything that I said previously. The only difference is taht I wrote this shiot months ago and was called a Nets fan for it. You jsut apparently needed another 30 win season to see it.
As for your depth nonsense, give me a friggin break. YOu fought for 3 months about our depth. Now six months later you are going back on your oringinal beleifs. You'd garner more respect if you just admit it instead of changing your tune.
SO what you're saying is that i'm not allowed to express in detail what I mean when I make a statement. It all has to be taken straight up with no qualifications. IF I say the team has "good depth", that means now that they should win at the same % no matter how many people they lose? No matter how long the time period or WHO it is that actually get's injured? You want to tell me exactly how I meant my own words and you can't do that. Only I can tell you what my own feelings are. I haven't changed a darned thing. YOU think i've changed my stance. Also you make it seem like this was some BIG topic of mine. Some huge rallying point for all of my posts all year. It's merely one of MANY points i've made over the course of the season and I didn't make it any bigger than any other strengths I felt the team had. I STILL like our depth, but let's be realistic here, there ARE LIMITS to everything.
Well when you contstantly belittled my posts this summer when I mentioned Q's back, Steph's knees and Eddie's possibly coming into camp out of shape. I mentioned that you had to take this into account. I also mentioned Steph and Stevie possibly causing chemistry issues. There were 3 of you specifically that called me many a name over the summer for suggesting and preparing ourselves for these possibilities. I asked the question what if? a thousand times. Each time I asked I was called negative and an idiot etc. You crowed about our depth and the vets maturity and how these things would not affect us. And that by even asking the question I was considered a non fan and a pessimist. NOw that most of what I "what iffed" about occurs I just find it funny how you no longer are disagreeeing with what I said over the summer. You are actually 100% on board and want others to be understanding towards you. I just find that funny, that's all.
Again for those who disagree with me they never seem to say what it is that they exactly disagree with, or what is unfair about what I'm saying. Injuries are an issue. You are 100% correct that injuries will affect us. But what we need to do as a team(and tell me if this is unfair, I'm open minded), is eliminate our constant pre-emptive strikes. A player goes down, and the next day in the papers we have to hear about how it will be tough to win without that player. Pre-emptive excuse before the game starts. This is how settling occurs my friend. That next night we go out and lose to a sub .500 team missing their star, while we are still playing with our two best "stars". At some point if your stars are really "stars" don't they have to be able to lead you to victory at home against the sub .500's even if they are missing a couple guys? Is this unfair? Is there a point where you will actually be hard on the team for a performance? Or shoudl we all settle and accept everything. When we have the inevitable injuries next year should we just accept that we are going to lose those games? Should we accept when our team comes out flat in the first half of games at home during a playoff race regardless of who is out of the line-up.
Instead of your nonsense rhetoric about how we need to support the team and how everything will be better next year, how about tell me what is unfair about anything I have said. At some point we have to raise the standard and not accept flat performances regardless of who is injured. Curry is out of shape every year because up to this date he has accepted flat performances. When do we change this? When is it okay to ask the team to change it?
4/12/2007 5:58 PM
