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Originally Posted by Minstrel
It just takes realizing that they don't want to be your friends and there's no reason why you would want them as your friends over anyone else on Earth. So who cares who they are as people? That's of value to their friends, family and acquaintances. We watch them play basketball...that's our relationship to them. Do you evaluate investment bankers by how much you'd enjoy grabbing a beer with them, or your car mechanic by how much he loves his wife? Is it uncaring and unemotional to value them, in a professional setting, by how well they do their job? I don't think so.
Some people want to feel like they're a part of the team, and they have bonds with the players. But that's not true of everyone. As a kid, I was that way...now I am not. So it's also possible to change what sort of fan you are.
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this pretty much perfectly summarizes the two basic perspectives about the Blazers, and why each side thinks the other is either emotionless or irrational.
myself, I just want a team that wins. it's all just entertainment, not a morality play. if one of my players says "both teams played hard" in an interview, what do I really care?
Bonzi Wells pretty much summarized it:
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"This is what they (the Blazers) wanted. They wanted to get all the good players out of here and bring in the so-called character guys, and if they want to sacrifice losing for that, I guess they've accomplished that," Wells said. "We got ourselves in the playoffs every year, we just didn't make that championship run they wanted."
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If you could kick a player off the team...
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