I have been a poster here for a long time. I have seen posters get disciplined for lesser offenses of rule breaking. How LB gets away with constantly derailing threads into his own, self promoting, self indulging love of Philly is disgusting. Mods....you really need to stop this. It is effecting the overall community atmosphere at this blog.
im graded on a curve. I think I'm actually a pretty good sport about it. Any other poster could have responded to smitty's panic thread with, "the pain is magnified by the fact our last three losses came to teams Philly just beat" and the response would have been "ugh that's true that really sucks". But because it's me you have multiple people with an ax to grind knitting themselves matching caps, pulling out the poster board and crayons, and trying to get a march against LarBrd33 started.
Am I not allowed to express my concerns in a thread that was literally set up to panic about our losses? I was genuinely upset and frustrated to see us lose to teams that struggled to handle Embiid's size. It was literally the first time all season I found myself thinking "We need to go all-in for Boogie". This morning I thought better of it. I still think our best move is to keep the picks and build for the next generation.
It's hard for me to not have those observations. Every year I pick a team to watch semi-religiously other than Boston. Back in the day it was the Sonics. Last year it was the Wolves. This year it's philly. Had you seen my posts back in the early 00s you'd see me relate a lot of things to my experience watching Ray Allen. And actually, several posts about how Jeff Green had potential to lead a bad team in scoring (I even suggested a Perk swap a couple years before it happened). Last year I posted multiple times about how incredible Karl towns could be. This year, it's philly. For the record, no mod has every specifically told me to stop posting about the 76ers. Some random person will create a thread about Philly every few days and I'll give my two cents there, but I never create those threads. I've commented about them in the "NBA Season" thread because i genuinely see it as the biggest story of the season and I'm not alone. The other day 9 of the top 10 posts on reddit's NBA sub were related to Philly. As I make this post, Embiid is on the cover of espn's nba page. It's a big deal. I spent a month away from this forum and there were no less than 15 active threads about Philly here that I didn't make a single post in. If you're sick of the Philly talk you might want to start a petition to ban all Philly related discussion. I'm almost never the source of those threads. And in fact without calling anyone out specifically it's important to note that most of my greatest naysayers post about Philly as frequently as I do and I have already shown that they most certainly create more threads about Philly than I do.
Anyways, I want to apologize if my panicking last night about the fact a healthy Philly team was now better than us if that was not an appropriate thing to panic about in the thread created to panic. My bad. Knowing that I'm being graded on a curve here, I'll try to avoid this happening again, but y'all have to do your part not to derail every thread I participate in claiming I've derailed the thread.
yeah you are definitely right.
Youve lost a lot of credibility and are generally seen as a troll. That reputation leads people to assume the worst when the read your posts.
I never claimed to have credibility. I'm just some dumb fan. I don't mind people disagreeing with me. It sparks discussion. Most of the controversial things I've said in the past that get labelled "trolling" do not look controversial in retrospect. If you go back and look at the things people flipped out at me for in the past, there's not much to disagree with me about. My "anti-Rondo" comments are a classic example. In a couple years I'm sure all of the "controversial" opinions I have right now will likewise seem less controversial in retrospect. I've been dealing with this for 12 years on this forum. It is what it is.
I'm trying not to respond to every person who derails threads claiming I've derailed the thread. I try to ignore them. I'm responding to this one, because the "sky is falling" rhetoric in the original post kind of set a ridiculous tone right off the bat. If someone wants to help me steer this back on topic, let's find something less sensitive to discuss here that stays on-topic with the intended Panic-Mode purpose of this thread. I'll do my best...
Aside from the obvious lack of size, what do you see as the main reason we should panic about our last two losses?
I meant credibility as an honest Celtics fan/poster.
An obviously large portion of the blog believes you aim to troll more than to have a discussion about basketball. If most posters made the observation that Philly beat these squads those comments would be assumed to have come from a more genuine place. Out of actual concern of dismay. For you, they assume it comes from delight in riling up the masses.
However, you clearly dont believe yourself to be some dumb fan:
"If you go back and look at the things people flipped out at me for in the past, there's not much to disagree with me about"
As for the actual topic at hand. I dont see reason to panic. Boston is and has been all year who most thought theyd be. Save the injuries theyve played like a mid to high 50s win team. Factor in injuries and they still look to win low 50s and avoid Cleveland untill the ECF. Toronto has looked vulnerable lately and its worth mentioning that they have been quite dissapointing in each of their last 2 playoff runs. Last year a brilliant stretch by Biyombo overshadowed the fact that they had immense trouble with the Indiana Pacers and then the Miami Heat.
The fact that we lost two games (both bad losses) doesnt teach me much about this team. Its too bad. Our defense has been bad all year. That needs to change, but its not like these past two games have revealed that problem. The D has been bad from day 1 when we let up 117 to the Brooklyn Nets.
Im of the belief that Boogie, Jimmy Butler and Paul George are all worth the Brooklyn Nets '17 pick, but outside of them Im happy to hold off keep this current squad. Win in the mid 50s each of the next two years maybe make the Cavs sweat in an ECF and then let the Brooklyn picks and Brown(who has improved) and Marcus (who I perhaps irrationally believe will learn either how to shoot or how to not shoot) lead you into the next age of Celtics basketball where we will presumably compete with the Bucks and Sixers(depending on Embiids health)