ctchamps
We are UConn!! 4>1 But 5>>>>1 is even better!
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We all have biases. Our opinions are subjective. For instance I felt JD was over focused and that reduced his ability for having decent peripheral vision. Others felt he was selfish. Who is correct on this? Obviously people observe things differently. Sometime people observe things similarly but have different conclusions.
I'm not sure how someone who played very hard can be accused of having a lack of effort. I think you meant his lack of preparation reduced his ability to play better. I have no clue about his preparation and you might be correct but I remember you're arguments and how you ran with a statement JC made, how you indicated it was proof of your claim of JD's lack of effort. That statement was one line and in retrospect was no different than Durham's tweet about "having a great visit but he was really glad to be home". Language is imperfect (JC is very hard to understand at the best of times) and we often read too much or too little into statements.
I would have given you a pass on your opinion, as I frequently do with most of the people posting, except it was incessant and too many people (by my personal view of justice) fell sway to your presentations. I have a personal bias against people who have a canny ability to manipulate the masses, for whatever purpose. I don't take a contrarian opinion just to be contrarian. I feel humanity is far too often guided by emotional irrational feelings that are frequently damaging to others and/or themselves. There are people who are gifted at presenting rational sounding statements that are disguised from their emotionally negative intent. (I certainly am not above these weaknesses as I have confessed in the past so I'm not coming from a place of superiority.) And although I believe there are individuals who, from birth to their death, refrain from succumbing to their base emotional needs (lower self for @3for3 ) those individuals are extremely rare. Most of us move back and forth between the rational higher thinking (higher self for @3for3 ) and those base emotions.
My take is the Boneyard men's bb forum is a community of people with one common denominator - UConn men's basketball. From there we have a multitude of preferences how to approach this community or how this community should behave with most of us accommodating most of us most of the time. But some of us, on occasion, are determined to insist the community bend towards a particular set of behaviors which they prefer. My attitude towards differing opinions has always been on the extremely tolerant level with two exceptions. One I have elaborated in this far too long post. When this personal bias gets triggered based on how I choose to process events I feel the need to question the motives of people and become a voice of obstruction.
