I think...we have hit the peak. Never before have more people needed to....

Well someone needed to speak (or in this case type) the truth.

But are people willing to listen?

I made a thread almost like this last season at this time. It's just bound to happen. People are to retarded to realize 5 games doesn't mean anything. Somebody needs to bump this thread 5 games into every season in fact.

[QUOTE=NoGunzJustSkillz]pretty sure half the op was directed at you.[/QUOTE]

I was just countering the dumb and sudden trolling of Laker fans 'cause they're winning.

:applause: i don't think people can restrain themselves from jumping to massive conclusions around here. i've just learned to tune it out; otherwise i don't enjoy the forums as much...

Well pyt

I figured OP of all people would have learned to ignore such topics after all this time. I don't even bother clicking on the threads listed. Pick and choose. Sometimes I read 1 thread a day. Sometimes that's all that worth paying attention to.

The first couple weeks are always the worst here. So many knee jerk reactions with little context used, half the time people are just trolling to get a rise out of everyone.

[QUOTE=heyhey]some people have the foresight to see things before they actually occur[/QUOTE]

sorry gandalf you are pardoned from ridiculous overreactions

[QUOTE=demons2005]you're jumping to the conclusion that we're jumping to conclusions. CP for example has been in steady decline for years and the start of this season just adds additional reinforcement to that well established fact.

lots of these other thing have been going on a while too. i agree with you on the mavs are done theme that is too early to tell.[/QUOTE]

Steady decline for years? CP3 was having a superb '10 season before he got injured. Last season looked like he wasn't fully adjusted from his injury but he was still ballin as a top PG in the league.

Steady decline for years...:facepalm

Finally, someone has spoken. FINALLY FINALLY.

I don't know why people keep on bothering to reply to those kinds of threads. We just have to leave them alone. Let them say knee jerk statements and just reply to the threads who are really worthy of replies and not to threads who make completely idiotic conclusions.

It's funny to read though.. like the things they say are so stupid you know they know it too..

Kblaze types drivel that has been typed in response to almost every overreaction thread by a ton of posters on ISH. He is God.:bowdown:


Please, a big part of sports is fan overreaction. ESPN does it everyday with almost every article they pump out. Every topic on shows like PTI, Around the Horn, the god awful SportsNation. Is Kobe Done? Are the Heat unbeatable? Will the Mavs be a lottery team? It's all BS and pointing it out certainly doesn't make you a guru.

Kblaze is a good enough poster, he doesn't need to be praised for every redundant post he makes by the tools that are begging to be repped by him.

[QUOTE=pete's montreux]I figured OP of all people would have learned to ignore such topics after all this time. I don't even bother clicking on the threads listed. Pick and choose. Sometimes I read 1 thread a day. Sometimes that's all that worth paying attention to.[/QUOTE]

But he's a moderator.

Kblaze is right, but that doesn't change anything. People are going to overreact and make stupid threads regardless of what anyone says. The only thing that can really solve this problem is IP banning. Moderators don't have that sort of power and Jeff is not a strict admin.

If you've got irritated this easily and this quickly by it since becoming a mod, sucks for you when it comes to playoff time.

[QUOTE=Kblaze8855]......shut the **** up.

And by that I dont literally mean stop posting. And I dont even mean talk less. I am a hall of fame level windbag at times online and even in person...am one of the most verbose mother****ers you could encounter. But still I must say....


Some of these topics early this season has me wanting to kick down your doors and throw you in the torture rack till you tap and I refuse to break the hold.

Over the last couple decades ive heard a lot of early season idiocy. We all have. From Flip Murray>Ray Allen to Baron Davis for MVP to a 67 win team needed to be broken up because their playoff days are done(The Mavs started like 1-5 after making the finals). Ive heard that Drew gooden would be the best bigman in the NBA by now(look at his first few games...you will see why).

But this shit is a whole other level.

We are coming off a lockout. Like 20% of the NBA is visibly out of shape. Training camp was like 5 days and there are rookies playing who have only had like 5 workouts with the team and 2 preseason games. with the compressed schedule some teams will only have like 10-12 total days of planned practice for the SEASON.

There are still teams with players lost overseas scattered around the world....solid rotation players still free agents....at least one team is trying to implement elements learned from Oregon FOOTBALL that has only been worked on in coaches only scrimmages with 60 year old hall of famers and fat assistants playing the roles of Lebron and Wade.

We are 4 or 5 games into the season with only 2 preseason games.

Normally...the regular seasons begins after a month of practice, preseason games, and so on...and its not after 6 months of being locked out and 8 months after the last regular season ended...

This board is full of people of at least average mental ability who have the benefit of knowing all the above facts that point to the near irrelevancy of the first week of play...

And still....

We have people who actually use season averages to make a point as if 4 games of averages means anything(A guy like Kobe might average 55 for 4 games...or 18). have guys like rose, Wade, Kobe, CP3, Durant, Rondo, and Lebron either treated as gods are trash after one nights work.

After 2 games Kobe was back...after 5....hes Bynums sidekick.

Wade might no longer be elite.

The gotdamn Pacers are contenders...due to the #1 d...acquired by playing the Raptors, cavs, and Pistons....


I really cant believe some of this shit.

Id give anything to have a button to press to make someone climb through some of your windows and bust you in the head with a sack of doorknobs for some of these claims.

Even midseason runs in regular normal seasons dont mean shit. In 93 the Bulls lost 8 of 14 games at one point(including a game Jordan dropped 64 points)...

But 2 bad games in this situation...when the games being played would normally be preseason....after no off season....really no camp...tons of new systems being put in without being worked on...

Still....we find it possible to draw such solid conclusions.

Really?[/QUOTE]

:applause:

Why you worrying about those blatant troll topics though :confusedshrug: it's usually the same culprits so no point in trying to speak sense to any of them.