gunsnewing wrote:

crzymdups wrote:i think guys here need to let their hang-ups about MDA either way just go and enjoy this team. you are missing out if you don't just sit back and enjoy this. i was upset to see MDA go in the way it happened. i liked the guy. but the team is clearly playing a better, more well-rounded and playoffs-tested style of basketball under mike woodson.

just embrace it and enjoy the season. too many guys seem to get caught up in proving themselves right or wrong. i didn't want to see MDA go and i can admit i was wrong and just enjoy the sh!t out of these wins. i hope everyone else can do the same and the arguing is just about the message board. because it would be a shame not to enjoy the best team we've had here in a while. like, the best team we've had in ten years.

I don't think those people are caught up in proving they were right or wrong. I think they were extremely frustrated watching the team the past 4yrs screaming for a new approach, a new voice & new coaching philosophy and nothing changed until 20 games left in the 4th season. Frustrated watching the team go on ridiculously long losing streaks time and time again. Frustrated being virtually last in the league defensively year after year and missing the playoffs and getting swept when we finally did.

Well it's really more like 10 years of frustration but otherwise I agree.

gunsnewing wrote:

crzymdups wrote:i think guys here need to let their hang-ups about MDA either way just go and enjoy this team. you are missing out if you don't just sit back and enjoy this. i was upset to see MDA go in the way it happened. i liked the guy. but the team is clearly playing a better, more well-rounded and playoffs-tested style of basketball under mike woodson.

just embrace it and enjoy the season. too many guys seem to get caught up in proving themselves right or wrong. i didn't want to see MDA go and i can admit i was wrong and just enjoy the sh!t out of these wins. i hope everyone else can do the same and the arguing is just about the message board. because it would be a shame not to enjoy the best team we've had here in a while. like, the best team we've had in ten years.

I don't think those people are caught up in proving they were right or wrong. I think they were extremely frustrated watching the team the past 4yrs screaming for a new approach, a new voice & new coaching philosophy and nothing changed until 20 games left in the 4th season. Frustrated watching the team go on ridiculously long losing streaks time and time again. Frustrated being virtually last in the league defensively year after year and missing the playoffs and getting swept when we finally did.

BasketballJones wrote:

crzymdups wrote:i think guys here need to let their hang-ups about MDA either way just go and enjoy this team. you are missing out if you don't just sit back and enjoy this. i was upset to see MDA go in the way it happened. i liked the guy. but the team is clearly playing a better, more well-rounded and playoffs-tested style of basketball under mike woodson.

just embrace it and enjoy the season. too many guys seem to get caught up in proving themselves right or wrong. i didn't want to see MDA go and i can admit i was wrong and just enjoy the sh!t out of these wins. i hope everyone else can do the same and the arguing is just about the message board. because it would be a shame not to enjoy the best team we've had here in a while. like, the best team we've had in ten years.

When some posters stake a strong claim either way on a controversial issue, they become emotionally involved in the issue, and when they are on the "losing" side (their favorite coach/player is fired or traded) they feel personally humiliated.

Some posters on the "winning" side don't help matters much by taunting the "losers" if the move appears to bring success. The "losers" then double down on their positions, and wait for the next (inevitiable?) change in fortune, when the "losers shall be winners and the winners shall be losers"

That's a strong take to the hoop and the ball will go in, but you will not get a call so no And1 on the play.

A third side to the coin is that some posters see things a few steps beyond others, so they will sound the bells like Paul Revere. They sound the bells to help the other posters avoid falling from the cliff.

It's like a person with ADHD, when they see answers to math problems in their head without knowing how it got there.

Come on, people!

Knicksfan wrote:We had a great win and all you guys can do is argue about MDA?

Come on, people!

loweyecue wrote:

BasketballJones wrote:

crzymdups wrote:i think guys here need to let their hang-ups about MDA either way just go and enjoy this team. you are missing out if you don't just sit back and enjoy this. i was upset to see MDA go in the way it happened. i liked the guy. but the team is clearly playing a better, more well-rounded and playoffs-tested style of basketball under mike woodson.

just embrace it and enjoy the season. too many guys seem to get caught up in proving themselves right or wrong. i didn't want to see MDA go and i can admit i was wrong and just enjoy the sh!t out of these wins. i hope everyone else can do the same and the arguing is just about the message board. because it would be a shame not to enjoy the best team we've had here in a while. like, the best team we've had in ten years.

When some posters stake a strong claim either way on a controversial issue, they become emotionally involved in the issue, and when they are on the "losing" side (their favorite coach/player is fired or traded) they feel personally humiliated.

Some posters on the "winning" side don't help matters much by taunting the "losers" if the move appears to bring success. The "losers" then double down on their positions, and wait for the next (inevitiable?) change in fortune, when the "losers shall be winners and the winners shall be losers"

Much truth to this. I think the emotional part just creeps in. There's just too much invested in being a fan these days. I think this would be a good time for me to stop posting here. Let the Melo lovers and Woody's duke it out. I'll keep reading but I am going to try not to post anymore. When your fanhood gets questioned its time to move on.

why are you letting someone else define what you choose to do or not?

loweyecue wrote:Because posting here and all the name calling is starting to stress me out a bit. And I am literally slammed at work. Then I come home and cheat on my two year old to post here. But if the only impact it has is to piss people off then at some point you have to question here if it's worth it or not?

I don't personally know anyone here don't have anything against them and yet all the arguments have started taking personal taint. I can use a break. No hard feelings, just need to chill.

Try the ignore function first. There are still a lot of posters not involved in the argument, or who are being reasonable in their disagreements.

BasketballJones wrote:

loweyecue wrote:Because posting here and all the name calling is starting to stress me out a bit. And I am literally slammed at work. Then I come home and cheat on my two year old to post here. But if the only impact it has is to piss people off then at some point you have to question here if it's worth it or not?

I don't personally know anyone here don't have anything against them and yet all the arguments have started taking personal taint. I can use a break. No hard feelings, just need to chill.

Try the ignore function first. There are still a lot of posters not involved in the argument, or who are being reasonable in their disagreements.