Guano wrote:Chanel Bomber wrote:Guano wrote:Chanel woke up choosing violence today. Out here ready to fight over SAS and his hatred for all of us.

I think a lot of us knick fans know we're trash and that SAS is a showman.
We are trash across the board.
I would say most Knicks fans keep believing in certain players to maintain some level of hope about the future (or the present).
What's the problem with someone ignoring RJ's TS% and talking themselves into believing he can be Jimmy?
Or Melo delusionally thinking Randle working on his 8pack this summer will help him not be a selfish emotionally unstable chucker?
Nothing.
Yet everything.
There's nothing inherently wrong about having optimistic, disproportionate or delusional expectations about a player. In fact, it's pretty romantic.
But there's something unhealthy about Knicks fandom when fans hunt scapegoats because someone has to be held accountable and pay for the team's lack of results while their favorites (coincidentally always a young player who incarnates some form of hope) are shielded from any form of accountability. It happened with Al Harrington, Timmy Hardaway Jr (some went as far as emasculating him by calling him Tammy because he supposedly took possessions away from the great unicorn KP who couldn't isolate or pass the ball to save his life), Dennis Smith (booing him mercilessly and chanting for Frank while he was grieving), Elfrid Payton (Kris Pursiainen and others raging against him on Twitter - I was guilty of it to a much lesser degree as well and I regret it), Julius Randle, Tom Thibodeau, Alec Burks etc.
It's all incredibly convenient.