Boogie! wrote:a journalists job is to find out as much information as they can about the issue they're covering. if he asked sam, what he feeds his family for dinner, i don't mind a smartass response because it's an irrelevant question. but he asked him a basketball question concerning the team. idk if sam things we're the 72-10 chicago bulls, but we definitely have flaws and defending the 3 is one of them. just because you won the game, doesn't mean you don't have things to work on. if you can't answer why you're not a good team at the defending the 3 and have to resort to avoiding the question altogether then don't be surprised when people question your abilities.
and i can't believe people actually defend the guy and turn their hate on the reporters like he thinks you should. what do you expect them to write? "raptors can do no wrong, they are the perfect team?" do people expect all newspapers to be like this? if you're not gonna talk about the flaws and how to make the team better, what else are you gonna talk about? aren't these things every fan wants to know? woo, moon is in the dunk contest and chris is a good player and wants to make the all-star team. yeah, let's have a weeks worth of papers filled with stuff we already know, instead of getting actual insight from the coaches.
Dude, that's all any type of media focus' on. Negative this and negative that, It's sickening to read about and I don't know what people get outta it. So your telling me that reporter is gonna go write a story on how the Raps didn't defend the 3 ponters even though the Raps scored over 100 points and the Kings didn't even score 90 points? I just don't get what that does for anyone? It just seems like he's trying to be a jerk. Sure the Raps didn't play the perfect game but that's what the entire season is for, and Sams not gonna throw his players under the bus and say..."Ohh yeah well Anthony Parker isn't quick enough to close out and then recover" or "Moon's an idiot and leaves guys wide open." There's nothing Sam's doing wrong there, it's the players job and if they miss an assignment or two during a game they won then I don't understand what the point is. It just seemed like he looked at the game and nit picked what the Raps didn't do well. What's Sam supposed to say to that? Its just plain (Please Use More Appropriate Word) question from a dumbass who's either to stupid to know what he's asking or is too big of a jackass to care. Plus keep in mind Bibby hasn't played in how many games so maybe they wanted to leave him open and make him nail a few shots first.
Boogie! wrote:isn't it a shame that when someone speaks of monkey's they instantly think of a black person. I wasn't referring to Sam for Christ sakes, read my post. I was referring to the people who just bash Sam because someone else bashes him and it's the cool thing to do. Monkey, robot, Mannequin whatever you wanna call it. Now re-edit my post thank you very much
schad is moderating. there's been controversy lately with getting insulting posters and he's limiting that. maybe it's the way you wrote it that made it look like you were insulting sam. idk why the race card needs to be brought up, maybe you're the one assuming things. and idk what you're talking about with people being robots, but i'm calling it like i see it. if you were to ask my opinion, i would think someone that agrees with sam is just buying into his whole rant. this isn't confidence booster class where focusing on the negatives should be avoided. it's just a reporter asking basketball questions about the team. and since when is it cool to be impolite?
No see your being a pessimist. To you the glass is half empty, where I'm a realised the it's just half there. It's like Sam bashing is the cool thing to do and it just sounds (Please Use More Appropriate Word) everytime I read it on here. Sam's not the cookie cutter coach like Scott Skiles, he has his own way of doing things and he didn't fool everybody into winning coach of the year last year. I was on this board and I read all the disrespect and it was disgusting. It's opinions like yours that make this place such a dump to post at. Pure ignorance.
