jcsunsfan wrote:Pop does this in the regular season too. Its just Sarver's way of pointing it out. I cannot understand why people would rip him for this. Ticket prices are high to begin with. Then they charge full price for meaningless preseason game. The team promotes the preseason game by telling people they can come see Duncan, Manu, etc. Then they just choose not to come. Yeah its just preaseason, but its also a culmination of things that anyone selling a product should be concerned about. In Sarver's mind, the game did not provide appropriate value for the ticket buyers, so he is trying to make it right.
You buy a steak at a nice restaurant and it comes out so-so. The owner walks by your table and gets concerned. He says that the meal he is looking at is not up to his restaurant's standards and he comps you the meal. You do not walk out of the restaurant complaining about what an arrogant SOB he is.
At some point you should just say, "Hey, great, thanks. I was not expecting it, but good on you!"
I like how you don't attribute
any agency or responsibility to the guy charging full price tickets for something you concede is meaningless and trivial. Sarver, the owner of the team, who is completely aware of the fact that the preseason is meaningless and still charges full price. Poor powerless Sarver.
This is exactly the type of clueless attitude that results in every NBA labor dispute swinging pro-owner and people raising "tanking" as an actual issue.
Go after players and coaches for time management in the PRESEASON instead, lol.
THAT'S the target!
Your analogy is totally off too! Not up to his restaurant's standards? It's the preseason! There are no standards!
That's why the preseason exists, tinkering and no-pressure/expectation basketball! If we remove that, then it's no longer the preseason and we'll need a prepreseason where people can do **** like this without attention-seeking whining.
It's more like you guys come to his restaurant during the "limited discount buffet", but he charges you full price for it and then blames everyone but himself when the food is sub-par, the guy who charged full price for the discount buffet. Get this: Maybe he shouldn't be charging full price for the discount buffet? He KNOWS it's the discount buffet, he owns the restaurant, this is no surprise to him. He just gets to look good by giving you a refund for the **** food you just ate.
Going to a preseason game is not ordering steak.
It's a great deflective fan-pandering move on his part though, he's a smart man. I mean, look at you, you've totally swallowed it.
Like I said:
Dude's not some random new NBA fan on the internet, he knows the preseason is utterly meaningless and meant to finetune rosters, it's hilarious that people actually buy his weepy fan-pandering shtick and artificial attention-seeking. This is a total non-issue (ditto: "tanking"
) and the dude knows it as does anyone familiar with the NBA. It's only a meaningful statement or gesture to people dumb enough to miss that important fact.
Like I said, man the owners are really good at okiedoking sheep. I'm not just including Sarver there, all the owners.
You can't just go
"yeah it's just preseason" and then keep going with your flawed argument. It ends there. Do you get what I'm saying? You can't just run past that and keep talking. That's the end. It's just the preseason. There's no "and" or "but" afterwards, that's the bullet that kills your argument. It's like arguing about whether or not the earth is round or flat and starting your argument off with "Yeah the world is round,
but" as a flat-earther.
Yeah. It's. Just. Preseason.The end.
p.s.
Chuck Cooperstein @coopmavs 29m29 minutes ago
Per RC No Dirk, Parsons, Chandler, Ellis, Harris, and Nelson tonight vs Pacers.
Who wants to bet Herb Simon does NOT make an ass out of himself whining about the preseason being the preseason so he can pander to dumb Pacers fans?
p.p.s.
And now Sarver just looks like a sillybilly.
Gregg Popovich responded Saturday to Robert Sarver, who grabbed a mic late in Thursday’s exhibition game to apologize to the Phoenix Suns' home crowd after five San Antonio Spurs players missed the game.
“As I said, the silliness begins," Popovich said. "Most wise individuals would check facts before they made statements. Unless you’re interested in putting on a show. In that case, the facts get in your way, as in this case.
“We had five guys we didn’t send: Patty Mills had a shoulder operation. Tiago Splitter has been out the whole preseason. Kawhi Leonard was out and is still out for 10 more days. The other two, Duncan and Ginobili, are two of the oldest guys in the league who just came back from a 13-day European trip.
“The only thing that surprises me is that he didn’t say it in a chicken suit. I’ll just leave it at that.”
