Mid season report card

[Nate]

http://www.nba.com/reportcard/midseason/2017/blazers

This is a steaming pile of shit.

This was a last minute "Oh fuck! I forgot to write some shit about the Blazers!" Incident.


I didn't read any others, I'm assuming those are better.

 

[illmatic99]

That's actually pretty generous.

 

[Nikolokolus]

http://www.nba.com/reportcard/midseason/2017/blazers

This is a steaming pile of shit.

This was a last minute "Oh fuck! I forgot to write some shit about the Blazers!" Incident.


I didn't read any others, I'm assuming those are better.

I think it was written with the purpose of not generating hate mail.

 

[Nikolokolus]

http://www.nba.com/reportcard/midseason/2017/blazers

This is a steaming pile of shit.

This was a last minute "Oh fuck! I forgot to write some shit about the Blazers!" Incident.

I didn't read any others, I'm assuming those are better.

Wait? Are you upset because he went too easy on them or because you think he's being harsh?

 

[Chris Craig]

"...players like Allen Crabbe, Ed Davis, and Meyers Leonard have performed consistently off the bench..."

WTF...has this guy even been watching this season.

A D on Defense...should be an F

 

[Nate]

That's actually pretty generous.

Too generous. Especially about our defense. I think I could've written something better in 5-10 minutes. Probably just because I follow the blazers way more than him. But it didn't seem like he knew anything about the blazers.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Too generous. Especially about our defense. I think I could've written something better in 5-10 minutes. Probably just because I follow the blazers way more than him. But it didn't seem like he knew anything about the blazers.

Ah. Well don't get too upset. League publications release this kind of pablum every year and typically try to go a little soft, mostly because they don't want to alienate fans.

 

[Minstrel]

"...players like Allen Crabbe, Ed Davis, and Meyers Leonard have performed consistently off the bench..."

WTF...has this guy even been watching this season.

Leonard has been consistently terrible, Davis has been consistently invisible. Crabbe has been somewhat up and down but mostly down by a pretty wide margin.

I think he got that more right than wrong.

 

[Nate]

Wait? Are you upset because he went too easy on them or because you think he's being harsh?

It wasn't accurate. And he was going easy. Probably because he doesn't really follow the team.

 

[illmatic99]

It wasn't accurate. And he was going easy. Probably because he doesn't really follow the team.

Let's hope the other GMs in the league are equally oblivious.

 

[santeesioux]

This is a weird year all the way around, we'd normally be bitching at the national media for underrating our guys, now we're bitching at them for overrating them, lol.

 

[Nikolokolus]

It wasn't accurate. And he was going easy. Probably because he doesn't really follow the team.

You're not getting it. It's written by a writer who gets paid by the NBA. He's going to be as charitable as possible, because he's there to promote the league's product, not be scathing and do hard-boiled analysis.

 

[TBpup]

Blazers are harsh on anyone not blowing sunshine at the organization. I know of a number of people who they have put pressure on to try and be more of a homer 'fake news' type instead of being objective with what is really going on.

 

[Strenuus]

Blazers are harsh on anyone not blowing sunshine at the organization. I know of a number of people who they have put pressure on to try and be more of a homer 'fake news' type instead of being objective with what is really going on.

There's literally no way anyone can believe the sunshine crap they are spewing at this time of year.... the product is a fucking joke...people hopefully can see through it.

 

[TBpup]

The Blazers still want to that to be the mantra. I've spoken to a couple people in that last 2 weeks that have expressed pressure they have received from the Blazers to paint a better narrative.

 

[Strenuus]

The Blazers still want to that to be the mantra. I've spoken to a couple people in that last 2 weeks that have expressed pressure they have received from the Blazers to paint a better narrative.

Do they think some fans are stupid or something?

 

[Minstrel]

Do they think some fans are stupid or something?

Casual fans, the type who aren't hardcore enough to go online to talk about the team or necessarily even watch every game, are susceptible to narratives.

 

[Strenuus]

Casual fans, the type who aren't hardcore enough to go online to talk about the team or necessarily even watch every game, are susceptible to narratives.

Those are who I'm talking about. They watch more than one game of this team, and they'll know this team is crap... They don't need to talk about it with anyone else.

 

[TBpup]

Do they think some fans are stupid or something?

Not stupid but definitely easily influenced. Look at the people who get most of their news from Facebook.

 

[Minstrel]

Basically anyone who doesn't delve into a subject is highly susceptible to the dominant narrative about it, and a narrative can be anything. The Blazers (it sounds like) are trying to make their preferred narrative (probably something like "young, fun and rising") the dominant one.

 

[Strenuus]

Basically anyone who doesn't delve into a subject is highly susceptible to the dominant narrative about it, and a narrative can be anything. The Blazers (it sounds like) are trying to make their preferred narrative (probably something like "young, fun and rising") the dominant one.

So they say "Lets watch one game to see if they are any good" - they suck, like most nights... so they got one game from them. lol. It's not like last year where they looked like they cared and made the games watchable... that's all I'm saying. I hear what you're saying, completetly... it just seems silly... but they are a PR machine, so they have to... I get that as well.