bkkrh wrote:Edrees wrote:he gives the lakers one thing they need, someone who creates their own shot off the bench. I'm sure they'll be using him solidly through the season due to the injuries.ItsDanger wrote:Isn't there a Lakers board for these kind of topics?
did you post the same thing about san antonio board anytime there's a wemby topic?
The difference being that a lot of posters feel a certain tiredness to have a thread about pretty much every Lakers player that has a handful of decent games, which every other fan base handles as something they discuss in their board.
That there will be 1000 threads about Lebron, Bronny, Luka, granted.
Just for fun I did a search now. There are FORTY threads in the general board that mention Austin Reaves in the subject line. He is currently balling, no question. Otherwise this is an undrafted player in his 5th season that was never more than the 3rd best player on a team that won 50 games once and made it to the Conference Finals once since he is in the league. He made 0 All Star games and averaged 20 points for the first time last season.
And this goes on and on. There´s a thread about how surprisingly solid Ayton is, while he does the exact same thing he does since day one in the league. How about 17 threads with Talen Horton-Tucker in the subject line? Guess how many of those threads were created since he doesn´t play for the Lakers any more? It´s one and the reason was that he had 37 points and almost a triple double in a game.
And the list continues endless. Rui Hachimura, Jarred Vanderbilt, Cam Reddish, Dalton Knecht, Jaxson Hayes and so on and so on. Now here is a thread about Nick Smith Jr., a player that has played in 5 of 10 games this year and averaged 8 points in 17 minutes. Well actuall he had one really good 25 point game and averaged 3.5 points in the other 4, while shooting 25% from the field and 20% from 3. We definitely need a thread in the general board on him at this point^^.
It´s totally ok to bring attention to a player that is flying under the radar or being better than expected, but pretty much nobody outside the Lakers fan base cares about a player that has one surprisingly good game or a player who has turned into a decent starter or bench player and that´s it.
Wemby was just one example by me. There are threads about Peyton Prichard and Kon Knueppel on the first page of the GB right now too.
I don't see any threads about Rui , Vando, reddish of Knecht on the front page right now. You are considering 2 years of posting history, but if you did that for most teams, many of their players also get GB topics. You probably just don't notice them because less people are not as interested so they fly under the radar.
Also, many of the Ayton threads are not started by Lakers fans, but fans of teams Ayton used to be on who want to see him not do well. I remember a thread after the Lakers first game which was a loss and Ayton did not play well, was started to hate on him. you can hardly count that of thing against lakers fans.