Official Whine, Moan, Complain Thread 19/20-CLOSED "WE CHAMPS!"

Reports are they still have 3 to 4 open roster spots to sign more players...plus Ballmer is greasing The League to play an extra two on the floor along with help from the refs.

 

He and Rose both picked the Clippers to win. Nothing more satisfying than seeing eggs on their faces.

Memo to Pierce: you did NOT have a better career than Wade like you claimed. I mean does he even believe that? Every time I see a wheelchair I think of him and feel insulted for people who actually need it. Idiot!

 

Showtime is right. The journey is the fun, the ceiling is the roof. You said this weekend would be statement games if we won, yet now you’re still not satisfied after we did. Seems to me you’d be happier to have been “right” and rub it in if we lost rather than to celebrate these victories. If the Clippers and Bucks had won, it would be the end of the world for us, so by that measure, since we beat them back to back and they’re at full strength, we should now be title favorites. In reality, these are just 2 games like I said back on like Wednesday, but they ARE great wins, satisfying wins, and they should be celebrated as such. We shouldn’t have to be trying to convince fellow fans that this is good and matters who had already said we were gonna get destroyed this weekend. I’m all for the anti-jinx, but constantly s***ing on the team and taking the fun out of wins is silly. The point of sports is entertainment, the whole season should be fun, every win should make us happy, but instead it’s constant whining and hating like puffy said, as if every player on our team should play like star every night.

As has been said, this success could be gone in a second, we could be back to winning 17, 21, 26 games in a season, then you guys will have a legit reason to constantly complain. Instead we are a top 3 NBA team, a legit title contender and people seem to have immediately forgotten what sucking truly is and how to appreciate success. Yeah, the goal is the championship, but 29 teams don’t win it every year, you still gotta find fun in and enjoy the season, otherwise why even watch. It’s one thing to not enjoy the season yourself, but when you start trying to spread your negativity like a virus and tell people they better not say jack or use excuses if we lose these games, you’re even foreshadowing negativity you’re going to spout should we lose, like a damn threat towards people having faith that we’ll win. Who wins in that scenario, like, just why? And then when we win, if the players pulled off what you challenged them to do through a message board that they’ll never read, essentially threatening to go off on US, fans who have no way of improving this roster or making the actual players play any better, shouldn’t you be praising them to no end for doing so? I dunno, just feels like it to me.

 

I do think the shock and grief about Kobe and Gigi really took the sails out of the great year we've been having. But this is the best way to heal, with incredible Laker play and Lebron and AD leading us to the playoffs. What a glorious weekend for Lakers fans. Back to dominating the very best opposition.

 

Can’t, I’m staff, gotta keep an eye out for things crossing into straight up trolling and baiting territory like it did with another longtime member who is no longer here. This is starting to feel familiar, like a dog with a bone, or a very strange hill to die on, when simply adjusting your position or saying, hey, good wins, I can get behind this can instead go a long way, but sure, digging your heels in feels better I’m sure. But I guess you’ll come for me when we lose in May or June right, hoo boy am I in for it then, mark it down. Or, you know, we could all just like, root for the team we have to win it all together, considering trades are over and buyouts are done.

 

How about having a more positive attitude and being more kind in general? I mean, that would be a good start. Love & happiness.

 

I’m not asking for sunshine and rainbows. Discussion and disagreements are fine. But when I start getting told by a “realist” days before the actual games, don’t celebrate if we lose, don’t bump the optimism thread, don’t make any excuses, sorry, that’s over the line ridiculous. There’s a balance there where we can be positive and still criticize at the same time, I shouldn’t be basically threatened if I want to see a silver lining or take some optimism from playing the Clippers close in previous games.