I love this forum, But....

[Soonerlover12]

I love this forum. I love most of the posters, and most are well informed. Most speak highly. I do not follow during the games as I mostly stay on twitter. I CAN NOT read the game log that happens. There are people that just post in there when our guys do something wrong. I swear it is like they expect the other team to never score. They act like we should never make mistakes, or take bad shots, or just miss in general. This team is 11-1 with one of the toughest schedules in the country. Sit back and enjoy it. There will be time to put that unwanted input in later. It is like they have to find someone to bash. The post from last night was bashing Doolittle. The guy that came up huge down the stretch. Also bashing Manek, who hit a massive 3 and does tons of unrecognized things on both sides. I even saw someone criticize Odomes dribbling. The guy who can not be stopped DRIBBLING to the basket. Chill guys, This is a really good team. Every basketball team in the country is going to miss shots, make mistakes, and miss assignments on defense. You don't have to call out a player every time it happens!

 

[NickZepp]

Game threads in my experience are just there when people want to vent stuff. It's always going to be more negative. Deserved or not. It also doesn't help that last years team was so hard to watch.

 

[Soonerlover12]

When I get on the morning after I game, I get excited that I will have lots to read. It is just disappointing to see so much negativity I guess.

 

[coolm]

"the other side makes plays too."

It's not always about what your guy didnt do.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I understand what you are saying about the game threads. I stay away from them 99% of the time. They tend to be a place people go to make fools of themselves.

 

[Jeopardude]

Game threads are a drag. I just go on them to find out what happened to players (like Muni) and am looking for people listening to the radio broadcast or are there.

 

[sperry]

I love this forum. I love most of the posters, and most are well informed. Most speak highly. I do not follow during the games as I mostly stay on twitter. I CAN NOT read the game log that happens. There are people that just post in there when our guys do something wrong. I swear it is like they expect the other team to never score. They act like we should never make mistakes, or take bad shots, or just miss in general. This team is 11-1 with one of the toughest schedules in the country. Sit back and enjoy it. There will be time to put that unwanted input in later. It is like they have to find someone to bash. The post from last night was bashing Doolittle. The guy that came up huge down the stretch. Also bashing Manek, who hit a massive 3 and does tons of unrecognized things on both sides. I even saw someone criticize Odomes dribbling. The guy who can not be stopped DRIBBLING to the basket. Chill guys, This is a really good team. Every basketball team in the country is going to miss shots, make mistakes, and miss assignments on defense. You don't have to call out a player every time it happens!

That was me. If there is one thing I cannot abide as a hoops fan is players taking terrible shots. Doolittle was jacking up long 2s and was directly contributing to the deficit. He was terrible. He played within his abilities in the 2nd half and overtime, and made a couple nice plays. When he knows his role, he can be a contributor. He was playing well outside that roll early on and it was costing the team.

 

[oudna]

That was me. If there is one thing I cannot abide as a hoops fan is players taking terrible shots. Doolittle was jacking up long 2s and was directly contributing to the deficit. He was terrible. He played within his abilities in the 2nd half and overtime, and made a couple nice plays. When he knows his role, he can be a contributor. He was playing well outside that roll early on and it was costing the team.

At no point was Doolittle terrible

 

[sperry]

At no point was Doolittle terrible

When he is jacking awful shots he is terrible.

 

[coolm]

When he is jacking awful shots he is terrible.

not sure where you saw that at but the only "jacking up a bad shot" I remember from him was one at the end of the shotclock. Other than that some were complaining about his overplay on some interior passes by NW that led to easy Cat buckets. While focused solely on that play that might have been true ... it was part of a plan that was successful. So I think he's more than just in how he played.

 

[WichitaSooner]

When he is jacking awful shots he is terrible.

I guess that's a matter of opinion but remember that you also were referring to the game as an embarrassment midway through the first half because we were down 10, and you were calling Northwestern an awful team. That's the type of negative overreaction that causes lots of us to avoid the game thread. And it also is especially schizophrenic when you then claim after the game that we have a better chance to make an NCAA tournament run than the number one team in the nation.

 

[sheepdogs1]

I love this forum. I love most of the posters, and most are well informed. Most speak highly. I do not follow during the games as I mostly stay on twitter. I CAN NOT read the game log that happens. There are people that just post in there when our guys do something wrong. I swear it is like they expect the other team to never score. They act like we should never make mistakes, or take bad shots, or just miss in general. This team is 11-1 with one of the toughest schedules in the country. Sit back and enjoy it. There will be time to put that unwanted input in later. It is like they have to find someone to bash. The post from last night was bashing Doolittle. The guy that came up huge down the stretch. Also bashing Manek, who hit a massive 3 and does tons of unrecognized things on both sides. I even saw someone criticize Odomes dribbling. The guy who can not be stopped DRIBBLING to the basket. Chill guys, This is a really good team. Every basketball team in the country is going to miss shots, make mistakes, and miss assignments on defense. You don't have to call out a player every time it happens!

There's a thing called emotion and not all emotion can be good, now can it? You're only asking the impossible of people such that maybe you should set your sights lower where they, your thoughts, can enter the realm of reality.

 

[sperry]

I guess that's a matter of opinion but remember that you also were referring to the game as an embarrassment midway through the first half because we were down 10, and you were calling Northwestern an awful team. That's the type of negative overreaction that causes lots of us to avoid the game thread. And it also is especially schizophrenic when you then claim after the game that we have a better chance to make an NCAA tournament run than the number one team in the nation.

I was very clearly referring to the performance to that point. There is nothing inconsistent about the two opinions. Good teams should not be down 11 to mediocre ones, and if they are that’s a terrible performance.

 

[coolm]

Good teams should not be down 11 to mediocre ones, and if they are that’s a terrible performance.

the other team makes plays too.

 

[skyvue]

You're only asking the impossible of people such that maybe you should set your sights lower where they, your thoughts, can enter the realm of reality.

Impossible? Sorry, but that doesn't fly. Very, very few people, as adults, give free rein to their emotions in their day-to-day lives, giving voice to every heated reaction that flits through their brains.

That's what makes us human -- the ability to control our words and actions and to sort through our thoughts to consider which among them are worthy of sharing with/imposing on others.

Those who refuse to exert that kind of control over their words and actions generally find themselves alone (or close to it), if not incarcerated.

And it's funny how you always ask those who object to the extreme negativity to change, never those who continuously spew bile.

 

[Ghost of Gar Heard]

That was me. If there is one thing I cannot abide as a hoops fan is players taking terrible shots. Doolittle was jacking up long 2s and was directly contributing to the deficit. He was terrible. He played within his abilities in the 2nd half and overtime, and made a couple nice plays. When he knows his role, he can be a contributor. He was playing well outside that roll early on and it was costing the team.

"Made a couple nice plays..."

:ez-roll:

 

[coolm]

well, let's look at this another way.

there are 4 parts of the human brain. you've got the autonomic section that does things without our thoughts at all and we have little input there.

then there's the limbic system which is more reactionary than thought provoked. it not only reacts to emotional situations but also precipitates them by releasing chemicals.

then you've got your general cerebrum. it houses your thoughts and emotions and thought patterns and memories. all that kinda crap.

last but not least you have the pre-frontal cortex. this is the executive decisionmaking area of the brain. it evaluates, weighs, and makes decisions.

we are born with the autonomic and most of the limbic. some of the limbic is still maturing inside us as babies. the cerebrum doesn't form or develop until we start receiving input that our senses can perceive, define, and store. you're only born with cooing and being sad. the rest you learn.

that last section, the one controlling it all, doesn't mature until around 27 or 28 in human males. and even then some learned behaviors are never governed. we tend to refer to those as fanatical. fans.

this place is an emo pit waiting to happen when you have a bunch of 20-somethings or people who grew up being fans. their cerebrums are not as controlled by their pre-frontal cortexes as we'd like them to be.

it's just science.

 

[AdaSooner]

I was very clearly referring to the performance to that point. There is nothing inconsistent about the two opinions. Good teams should not be down 11 to mediocre ones, and if they are that’s a terrible performance.

Come on, sperry, you’re better than that. Taking questionable shots or being down to a decent team on the road, is not necessarily a “terrible” performance.

At the time you made that post about Doolittle, Manek, Muni and Freeman had two points combined. CJ had five, well below where he was expected to be in the the first half. Truth is, no one except Odomes was playing well. Why single out Doolittle when you had more “worthy” candidates at that time to pick on?

Doolittle turned it on in the latter part of the second half and the overtime. I’m glad he did, because I’m not sure we would have won that game if he had not made some great plays down the stretch.

 

[WichitaSooner]

I was very clearly referring to the performance to that point. There is nothing inconsistent about the two opinions. Good teams should not be down 11 to mediocre ones, and if they are that’s a terrible performance.

Simply a ridiculous take. Let's assume for the sake of argument that Northwestern is truly mediocre, even though being one of the 40-50 best out of 300+ teams doesn't actually support that. But even if true, good teams in every sport lose plenty of games to mediocre teams. So to suggest it is terrible to simply have a bad ten minute stretch is absurd. That's like saying a good shooter should never miss open shots, or a good hitter should never strike out. Sports are unpredictable and difficult, and drawing that broad a conclusion from ten minutes is nuts. Also as to your take on KU guards, you must not have watched them much. Vick basically hasn't missed and they have two really good freshman who haven't even scratched the surface of what they'll be in March.

 

[CoachTalk]

I was very clearly referring to the performance to that point. There is nothing inconsistent about the two opinions. Good teams should not be down 11 to mediocre ones, and if they are that’s a terrible performance.

:facepalm

Michigan beat them by 2. Same location.

We aren’t going to win every game pretty.

Welcome back to reality