Thanks for the honesty on that.
This, of course, is not true. I, and the seemingly few (or quiet majority?) like me, have made absolutely no pretense about people having moved on, smugly or otherwise. It is blatantly obvious that people have
not moved on, as evidenced by the fact that as soon as the sweet, sweet oblivion of the Covid Doldrums evaporated away with the release of the NBA's season-completing schedule and people began talking basketball again, practically the very first complaint brought up here was precisely the "Vlade didn't take Doncic" complaint. We are now about a page and a half into a thread which featured an excerpt of an article talking about Vlade, the current Kings, and prospects for the Kings' future. That concept - the forward-looking idea taking into account where the Kings are right now and what their future might be - has been hardly discussed if at all, in favor of once again rehashing the exact same backwards-looking, stuck-in-the-past complaints that have been endemic here (as well as apparently elsewhere) for the past two years.
Smugly pretending that everyone has moved on, my ass! Pointing out that your crowd of incessantly nattering nabobs of negativity is at it again is pretty much the opposite of smugly pretending everybody has moved on.
Which brings the question - if Reddit and Twitter and STR and the social media sites for every other NBA fanbase all provide welcoming outlets for your point of view, why can't you spend your time complaining about Vlade not taking Doncic at one of those sites (there's clearly no shortage of sympathetic ears!) and spend your time here, seemingly the one single and solitary site on the internet where the mods openly discourage such negativity, in other discussions that are more germane to this site's (for lack of a better word) editorial position? If KingsFans.com wishes to position itself as a site dedicated to forward-looking hope rather than backward-looking complaints, why do you and your crew insist on rejecting those wishes and forcibly reforming us in the image of all of those other sites when you already have so many options to get your Doncic stuff off your chests elsewhere?
We can't drown it out. You've already proven that. And it certainly doesn't appear that you will tire of it anytime soon. The only amicable hope we really have is for your crew to come to the realization: "You know what? The mods over at KingsFans.com have been telling us that we have made our point to saturation and have been asking us to knock it off because we're derailing the other conversations and maybe...maybe we're being rude to keep throwing it in their faces when we have so many other outlets where we can get our frustrations out without falling afoul of the wishes of the community..."
Or, in meme-speak, you could have one of these moments:
But I'm not holding my breath.
See, this site shouldn't have to be about suffering and misery. Some of us are trying to keep this site from becoming solely that.
And, just to head off the "but but realism" argument...
"The Kings are a small market team with an incompetent front office and ownership with little chance to ever truly compete for a championship. I'm only interested in championships so I'm going to stop emotionally investing in the team" is realism.
"The Kings are a small market team with an incompetent front office and ownership with little chance to ever truly compete for a championship, but I want to root for my hometown team and I'm going to stick beside them even though success is unlikely" is realism.
"The Kings are a small market team with an incompetent front office and ownership with little chance to ever truly compete for a championship. I'm only interested in championships and since it's obvious I'm not going to be getting them here anytime soon, I'm going to double down on my emotional investment in the team so I can turn it around in raging vents of misery and frustration" isn't realism, it's masochism.