Choker wrote:truthrising wrote:and as I mentioned before there were always posters here on RealGM that was defending him religiously and than there were other posters who were afraid to critique him due to backlash coming from the Derozan supporters I'm telling you that most ppl here on RealGM were sheeples into thinking that DeRozan would some day become an all-star of some sort.
Most people have a innate desire to be special and extraordinary, whether that be extraordinarily accomplished, or well-liked or good looking or what have you. Some people on this board have funneled that desire into a need to be acknowledged as extraordinarily knowledgeable about professional basketball.
Taken too far, this results in the smug and condescending sort of prognostication you get in the above quote. It's not just about being right, but about other people being wrong. Where other people are "sheep", posters like this aspire to be acknowledged as extraordinarily objective and prescient. This means making bold and absolute statements of opinion, and refusing to ever reevaluate or reconsider these opinions if only because that might suggest that their knowledge and expertise isn't as extraordinary as they'd like to believe....that maybe they're just another guy sitting at home, watching basketball like the rest of us.
When being basketball fans turns into an exercise in always being right (and proving "sheeple" wrong), this place becomes completely unreadable
