The Answer Man Accepts Responsibility for the Knicks 2007-08 Season

"When you catch yourself complaining, stop and ask yourself if you want to continue to deny responsibility for your reality or to allow a bit more responsibility back onto your plate. Maybe you’re ready to assume more responsibility, and maybe you aren’t, but do your best to make that decision consciously."

basketballjones - so whachoo sayin' is that there are people who consistently only know to rag on the Knicks because they are unable to disconnect undesirable behavior from their self-image?

Deep stuff dude.


"Consider how the foods you eat condition your body. You aren’t really going to become the next meal you eat, but that meal is going to influence your physiology, and if you keep eating the same meals over and over, they’ll have a major impact on your body over time. Your body will crave and expect those same foods. However, your body remains separate and distinct from the foods you eat, and you’re still free to change what you eat, which will gradually recondition your physiology in accordance with the new inputs."

"This is why negative thinking is so addictive. If you keep holding negative thoughts, you condition your mind to expect and even crave those continued inputs. Your neurons will even learn to predict the reoccurrence of negative stimuli. You’ll practically become a negativity magnet."

Pass the footlong hotdogs and carvel.. and save me a slice with pepperoni!

Posted by RemBee76:

Only a moron woud post incessently about a team he doesn't like.

Sorry TMS, but one fully qualifies as a negative nancy when speculating a day before the first pratice what the excuse will be when the team doesnt meet expectations. Its not an insult, thats reality bub.

We all have our anxiety about how this season will pan out. I believe thats how this thread started. But no fan puts themselves in the position in pre-season to be proven wrong if their team actually wins. Its a step away from rooting for your team to lose, and what true fan does that?

People get all uptight when others imply they aren't a true fan. Sorry if you are one of those people.

& who the hell are you to decide whether or not i like a team or not? i'm frustrated by the empty promises & unfulfilled expectations year after year, & i'm not afraid to admit that... if you're optimistic & proud of the team Isiah's put together, that's your choice bub.... i hate the fact that we have a moron like Starbury leading this team & the fact that we have our team president & GM involved in all this sexual harassment & inpropriety crap is embarassing to me as a Knicks fan... if you're the type of person who can be proud of the current situation, knock yourself the F out... sorry bub, but i don't take any pride in seeing the team i love go to ****.

No blood, no foul

TMS - you should eat more carvel ice cream and foot long hot dogs

It ain't about you or me, so whatever crusade you feel compelled to lead against my scribblings is moot.

I ain't got no beef with you.

Posted by TMS:

let's not get his thread locked w/this nonsense.

Locked? You kidding? After I've posted on it, more likely the Admins erase it entirely.

Personally I'm most looking forward to see if JJ2 can manage to NOT suck in any single dimension of his game this year.

Posted by misterearl:

The Answer Man Accepts Responsibility for the Knicks 2007-08 Season

"When you catch yourself complaining, stop and ask yourself if you want to continue to deny responsibility for your reality or to allow a bit more responsibility back onto your plate. Maybe you’re ready to assume more responsibility, and maybe you aren’t, but do your best to make that decision consciously."

basketballjones - so whachoo sayin' is that there are people who consistently only know to rag on the Knicks because they are unable to disconnect undesirable behavior from their self-image?

Deep stuff dude.


"Consider how the foods you eat condition your body. You aren’t really going to become the next meal you eat, but that meal is going to influence your physiology, and if you keep eating the same meals over and over, they’ll have a major impact on your body over time. Your body will crave and expect those same foods. However, your body remains separate and distinct from the foods you eat, and you’re still free to change what you eat, which will gradually recondition your physiology in accordance with the new inputs."

"This is why negative thinking is so addictive. If you keep holding negative thoughts, you condition your mind to expect and even crave those continued inputs. Your neurons will even learn to predict the reoccurrence of negative stimuli. You’ll practically become a negativity magnet."

Pass the footlong hotdogs and carvel.. and save me a slice with pepperoni!

I think I need a few more lifetimes to work through my Knicks negativity.

What, TMS, you don't think that is funny?

Posted by TMS:

i just find it ironic to have someone calling me out for negativity when they got something like that in their sig

RemBee76 also appears to be slightly negative about this site. Just slightly.

Making fat jokes at Curry's expense used to be de rigueur on this board, I was just trying to fit in.

Posted by RemBee76:

Making fat jokes at Curry's expense used to be de rigueur on this board, I was just trying to fit in.

I was 1 of Curry's biggest defenders all last year on these forums, just to counter some of your innaccurate preconceived notions about me as a Knicks fan... being completely discouraged about a franchise that has Jim Dolan, Isiah Thomas & Stephon Marbury as its figureheads isn't exactly being unreasonably negative.

& getting back to Bip's original question, what do you think is the biggest thing to look forward to this year?

[Edited by - TMS on 10-02-2007 11:57 AM]

Posted by RemBee76:

Why would you post 83 times a day about a team that you hate and constantly complain about?

Why not just leave and never come back?

I suppose that was intended for me.

I love the Knicks franchise and I have since I was a kid.

I hate the current Knicks owner, GM, Team President, Head Coach and Point Guard.

I think a lot of the current players are overpaid, underachieving losers.

I want to be a fan of this team again and the only way is for there to be drastic changes with who is running things.

What's your excuse for posting on a site that you have nothing good to say about? Why not just post on one of the many other Knicks boards on the internet? One where you can drink as much kool-aid as you like.