Sory for my English

That lens shatters

The accusation of fans such as myself, with regards to the leafs and increasingly with the raptors, is that the organization is content to lose as long as the team profits. As long as seats are selling, there is no incentive to get legitimately better. If it happens, without spending too much money, that a championship team is formed, then the MLSE would love it. More games to sell tickets for.

The exact kind of move that is typical of the leafs, may very well happen here. Toronto almost picked up Damon Stoudamire last year, a player the team did not really need at the time. Basically, this is so that fans will come to the games to see him. It is not about winning, it is about profit. The Leafs did it when they brought back Clark, for example.

So, the organization hires a new GM, but all the while puts restrictions on exactly what he can do. To a very real extent, all teams thrive because they make profit, and so they can continue in the future. However, there is very little risk taken by a Toronto team, because in general, they just don’t need to.

If ticket sales are down, I hope it sparks a revival, but fear that it will lead to an even bigger budget cut of the team, and even more mediocre results. Basketball, I do not think, is ingrained enough in the Toronto psyche to withstand this over a long period of time, and the team may be in a worse situation than Phoenix in the NHL.

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re: Perhaps, you are hearing the criticisms of your posts, and improving how well you communicate your thoughts.
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… or, perhaps, some here are beginning to see what I write, from time to time, through a different lens than they were using before.

My point is 2-fold: 1) if MLSE is as bad as you and others say it is there is no point at all in supporting the Raptors, ever, because nothing can be done about the problem their money-grubbing ways represent. I don’t think MLSE is good management but it is simply incompetent, there is no master plan for mediocrity. They aren’t that smart. 2) In the games I’ve been to this year, I hear as much frustration with the team – players, coaches and beyond – as I do on this or any other fan site. The impatience and disgust is pretty prevalent. The team gets booed regularly (sometimes justly and sometimes not) and I believe AltRaps when he says ticket sales are down and will be for next year even more. There are a lot of basketball fans in Toronto, casual though they may be. But there aren’t enough that MLSE can casually alienate them and sell a lot of tickets.

So that’s my 2-cents. But it’s just basketball and there’s 29 other teams to watch, even if they’re not your first choice. I’m going to call Raptors TV and demand they air the Bucks-Atlanta game tomorrow so I have something to watch besides Raptors-Bulls. That might be a way of getting the message across.

While you are certainly entitled to think that the 2007-2008 Boston Celtics are something else entirely different, in my book … what their team is today is the reigning NBA Champion.

I’m actually afraid of where this is going to go, but…

this may be the most concise, most ‘readable’ (for lack of a better word) post I have ever read from you. Perhaps, you are hearing the criticisms of your posts, and improving how well you communicate your thoughts. I agree 100% with that analysis. That is exactly what I was thinking in a very short post. Well done.

As poorly as Jose has defended this year, he is the floor leader of this team. Not saying he is perfect, far from it, but he is a very solid NBA point guard.

Sam Mitchell was fired at the worst possible time this season. I agree that his time here was done, and he needed to go, but why during the toughest stretch of the season? For an assistant. Doesn’t make much sense. He is an NBA guy, and he’s been around a long long time. He is a strong personality, something this team really lacks. Jose might be the only strong man on this team, the rest of the guys are the type that would follow. CB is trying to become a leader, but its not something that comes naturally for him. Leaders are born. Not made. I think Sam was the leader of this team. Now, during this tough stretch they don’t know who to turn to. If Sam was here, CB would have never called out Moon. Sam would have done it before CB even got the chance. I’m not saying we need him back, but going forward we need to add some solid vets around CB4 to compete. Or wait until our core develops to that point. Either way, this team is too inexperienced to handle this type of adversity.

and man I miss Rasho!

The disasterous effect is that losing a lot of games can make it seem to others as though you don’t want to be there … when, in fact, you don’t mind being where you are.

If anything, what you mind is the losing, in and of itself, not the people with whom you happen to be losing.

The cumulative effect of all the losses, however, can be twofold:

i. It can effect the perception observers have of you;

and,

ii. Eventually, it can also effect your perception of those with whom you happen to be losing, i.e. over time you can then begin to think that you dislike them, as well, when in fact it’s just the repeated losing which you really dislike.

[if I've only confused you even more then that is my fault, as I haven't done a good job with my explanation]

then have jaric, parker and rokoman play the point the rest of the way, with Gay as a slasher and Warrick to help on the glass.

THen trade JO to New York to Marbury, and just wait to Marbury’s contract to run out.
In the summer, sign a PG, ie. Mike Bibby?
or
Draft a PG, ie. Johnny Flynn, Brandon Jennings?

Denigrate? Really? Am I sensing a little implication of racism there or is that another developing conspiracy of mine?

You guys are the tribal honking Raptors fans you denigrate.

as for your questions:

a) streams suck and frustrate me
b) hate bell expressvu, used to work there
c) live in a condo, can’t get a dish up

“True Confidence comes but from one place … prior Accomplishment.

It is understated, not brash … and, knows internally that it can get the job done, in a specific situation, because it’s been done before, under similar conditions.

An individual or a team that gets the job done properly, repeatedly … first, in practice, then in games and, finally, in the playoffs … develops an Internal Compass which is pointed, continually, in one direction, towards Winning.

“Graduated Task Accomplishment” is the powerful biofeedback ‘Learning Loop’ which conditions the performer(s) to believe whole-heartedly in the inate quality of his/her own performance, within a specific environment.

True Confidence is not bragadocious, cocky or pretentious.

It is silent, resolved and grounded, firmly, in unrelenting Hard Work, Unselfishness and Grit.

It’s The Stuff of which Champions are made.”

You realize that you are talking about the Celtics right? The biggest assholes in the leaugue then and now!

You should consider thinking before typing, it helps.

You say in your first line that losing has the effect described by fluxland (your quote). You then say that losing gives the impression of ‘not wanting to be there’ but it is acutally not the case. But then you say the reaction of the player is an example of the cumulative result of all the losses.

1. Losing has the effect of players not wanting to be there
2. Losing gives the impression of people not wanting to be there, but that is not the case
3. The reaction is simply the example of the cumulative result of all the losses.