Scase wrote:hankscorpioLA wrote:So the Hansbrough signing and the press appearances yesterday do not appear to have moved the poll. We are now sitting at an 80% approval rating for Masai Ujiri.
This is confusing to me.
We appear to have a forum that is bitterly divided over the direction of the team. Not only are there pro- and anti-tankers, but there is disagreement over the actual direction that Masai is taking.
What gives?
One possibility is that those who believe we are tanking represent a much smaller minority than they appear. That seems less likely to me.
More likely is the odd situation where both sides are approving of Masai's performance based on the belief that he is following their preferred path. One side looks at the words and the actions and hears "tank" and the other side hears those same words and thinks "playoffs".
This is somewhat analogous to when Barack Obama was elected. A lot of people saw him as a moderate with a very centrist economic vision who would work to bridge the political divide. Others saw him as the savior of the left who would undo all the evils of the Bush Administration.
Until reality sets in, people tend to want to see what they want to see.
That certainly seems to be the case here so far.
MU has not showed clearly which way he's leaning and contrary to what most anti-tankers seem to think, the people for tanking are rather patient. Until he makes a clear move in one direction or the other I don't foresee a whole lot of change to the approval rating over the next coming weeks.
There simply has not been anything groundbreaking enough to warrant people having strong feelings.
See I'd agree with you. Except he's been talking about "2 year plans" and believing in karma as a reason against tanking. At some point someone has to ask when do we say time is up for this grace period of Ujiri?
To me, I'm open minded. Ujiri can prove me wrong and I'll gladly admit he was right. But I still disapprove of his overall vision as it stands.
