Whose opinion do you respect/trust when it comes to basketball?

[elementally morale]

Your own. I know. But other than your personal opinion... who do you take seriously?

I often read people saying here this or that ex-player, HOF-er is not a good evaluator of talent. Jordan is bad, Magic is bad, etc. Usually: ex-players you don't agree with just don't understand the game.

Coaches? I always hear this or that coach is a moron. His strategy is shit (D'Antoni, Kerr, Thibodeau, you name it.) GMs? Same thing. This or that GM doesn't know what he is doing. All the time. Owners? Come on... they know nothing. Analysts? Just paid talking heads with agendas. Sports writers? Bullshit. The media? They are clueless. Marketing for the sheep.

So.

Whose opinion do you respect? Trust. Respect means: even if you do NOT agree with the person you listen to him. Think it through. Maybe even change your mind.

You can name particular person (i.e.: Hubie Brown) or a group of people (defensive coaches, statisticians, etc.) So who do you trust?

[Carbine]

KBald8855

[Shogon]

Jerry West, Bill Russell, Hubie Brown.

That's about it.

[stalkerforlife]

My own.

That's it.

[elementally morale]

KBald8855

You can name forum posters and I, too, have some whose opinions I take seriously. kblaze is one of them. Despite our friendly differences, Shogon is another. I can name a few others. But how about outside ISH?

[stalkerforlife]

Jerry West, Bill Russell, Hubie Brown.

That's about it.

"Please love my Bran."

"I trust people that reaffirm my agenda."

[elementally morale]

My own.

That's it.

That's nice and all but that way you won't really open your eyes to new things.

[Shogon]

"Please love my Bran."

"I trust people that reaffirm my agenda."

If you don't shut the f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck up I am literally going to skull f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck you.

[elementally morale]

"I trust people that reaffirm my agenda."

Yeah, it's common. We are human. We like when we can agree with someone well-known or when someone well-known agrees with us.

My question is this: who can make you change your opinion? Or at least make you think about it some more. Even if you disagree... you trust the guy and give his ideas a chance.

[Shogon]

Yeah, it's common. We are human. We like when we can agree with someone well-known or when someone well-known agrees with us.

My question is this: who can make you change your opinion? Or at least make you think about it some more. Even if you disagree... you trust the guy and give his ideas a chance.

You can shut the f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck up too.

Here's the last thing Bill Russell said to LeBron James.

Hey, thank you for leaving me off your Mount Rushmore. I’m glad you did. Basketball is a team game, it’s not for individual honors. I won back-to-back state championships in high school, back-to-back NCAA championships in college, I won an NBA championship my first year in the league, an NBA championship in my last year, and nine in between. That, Mr. James, is etched in stone.

So, eat a dick, both of you. This thread has nothing to do with guys reaffirming my opinion... or with LeBron except stalker's sick f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck obsession.

[stalkerforlife]

Yeah, it's common. We are human. We like when we can agree with someone well-known or when someone well-known agrees with us.

My question is this: who can make you change your opinion? Or at least make you think about it some more. Even if you disagree... you trust the guy and give his ideas a chance.

No one.

[Shogon]

No one.

Because you're not open to new information because you're stupid.

[elementally morale]

You can shut the f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck up too.

I wasn't even talking about you, LOL. I jsut stated something rather obvious. It's a lot easier for us to take someone seriously if we agree with them. Not just in sport: in general.

My criterion for taking someone's opinion seriously is listening to him/her even when I'm in strong disagreement. I even named you as one example.

[RRR3]

Another thread where Orlando Magic and Stalker are basically making out. You two are obviously in love.

[stalkerforlife]

You can shut the f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck up too.

Here's the last thing Bill Russell said to LeBron James.




So, eat a dick, both of you. This thread has nothing to do with guys reaffirming my opinion... or with LeBron except stalker's sick f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck obsession.

Let me guess, all your guys have Bran over Kobe.

"Please love my Bran."