YogurtProducer wrote:WetLikeWater wrote:Did anyone catch this? Reports have been gossiping about how Scottie's condition worsened and how Mogbo was a poor selection.
Media has not liked Scottie really ever. I do wonder why that is but it has been years of it now.
I for one find it hard to believe the media would just decide to dislike a player for no reason. I really do wonder what happened / what happens for them to feel this way
I've been saying that these murmers have been going on for 3 years now. You pick up on all this off the record stuff if you work in raptors media.
The perception is that scotty is immature and kinda bratty. Also he's been spoiled by the franchise to some degree. There's a clear campaign to talk into existence his leadership abilities and stuff like that. Behind the scenes it's alot of eye-rolling.
They were saying here near the hot mic "at least in his first year he was happy".
Anyways I heard about this hot mic at work and wasn't sure if it went public.
The perceptions amongst the fanbase about scotty HAVE been weirdly delusional. the scotty hardcores literally threw EVERYONE under the bus in clinging to a fictional narrative about him. And then when a reporter or journalist does not re-enforce the fictional narrative...they are accused of all sorts of stuff. So the media kinda senses that it will all eventually come out in the wash.
My guess is that next year scotty will continue to grow up a bit and this stuff will gradually fade away. But there is a possibility that it completely blows up next season. The ingredients are there for a big crisis and a big revealing. But my guess is that it'll go the other way. Rj and IQ are really close. If it goes in the blowup direction....I could see one of them call him out. And if that happens....there could be a flood of negative media reporting that follows it. (Negative about scotty)
There were times last season and the season before where I'd come after doing a raps game and read this board and be astonished how different a reality people are perceiving compared to the murmers around the team/media.
I can't repeat things said off the record or attribute them to anyone specific. But ppl were also making fun of him for thanking his teammates in this presser. It sounded like someone who had just won mvp or something. It's just kinda strange that he thanked all his teammates when the season was over. As if to suggest he had achieved a big accomplishment this year or something like that.
I didn't see the presser...I just heard some ppl talk about the hot mic and then talk about how he's being propped up....always been treated with kid gloves. Has no reason to resent the media. Etc etc.
