Honestly, he probably spent an hour on this. I fully expect that almost all of the players are playing video games, posting on social media, etc. way more than they are writing or contributing to articles.
That said, I haven’t even clicked the link. If he’s sharing team secrets or causing dissension or distraction with his teammates, that’s a different issue entirely. But I assume that’s not it.
I read over it, but don't think it does or should. Doesn't the column existence by by itself intrinsically have the potential of distraction regardless of the content? That's part of the issue I have with this. I guess in that regard it's about the same of doing an a full on interview (which he also did coincidentally).
But if you guys have no problem with it, then I guess it's just me... and no I don't have problems with playing video games and what not, but I do think they spend too much time in social media for their own good and often getting into needless spats, but to each their own.
Content matters. I would be disappointed in any poster here who has not clicked on the article. If he wrote about zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance (not the book by the same name, but literally that topic), I would have no problem whatsoever with him writing it and sharing publicly.
BUT, he wrote about the current series that his team in involved in. This is bad form and if I am Hawks management, I would have a problem with it.
Why would you be disappointed in any poster that did not click on article? Do you mean any poster commenting on the article or just any poster?
I don’t know about Collin’s article as I do not care to read it yet.
I know that as entertaining Trae Young’s shimmy was it was way to early in the series for that. Looks like it really lit a fire under Giannis. Why would you want to do that?
Yes, any poster commenting on the article should read the article. Content matters...read the rest of my post.
Well, the question was more so about writing an article, not this particular article... though part of your point is that content does matter. To me it doesn't in the end, just the potential alone of being an issue is enough to shy away of it.
So I don't think people needed to read it to comment in this thread, since that was not really the discussion.
That is not the way I interpreted it. You need to click on the article to see the activity that is in question. Can he write an article about gardening, for example? What else is restricted during a playoff run? Volunteering at a soup kitchen? I am being facetious to illustrate the point that content not only matters, it is the ONLY thing that matters.
I just don't view writing columns as a stress free activity. I think it's a needless stressor regardless of content with other potential detriments within your teammates (this may be were content comes in, but not exclusive to it) which may or may not happen. But then again, players are used to the limelight...
Not all see it that way, and it may be much ado about nothing. Personally, I hope I don't see Tatum, or Smart, or Brown writing a columns during the Playoffs... even less after bad losses including a particularly embarrassing one.
It's one of the most liberating things there is.
It's about putting thoughts together in a way that makes sense. And if you go into the particulars of it, it's about writing it so others understand. It's like a puzzle. Gotta put the pieces in the right place.
Having said that; I love writing, but I hate doing puzzles
Legit, they stress me out.
And that's my point.
To each their own. We can't say what's stressful for others.
Heck, on my spare time I learn new, scary things. That's a stress reliever for me. Some people go sky-diving. Others sit in a corner with a book.
Don't yuck someone else's yum
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