And yes, there is/has been an anti-Boogie crowd. Mysteriously, they seem to have disappeared. Wonder why that is?
Its because I'm off chasing them through the bushes with a big stick.
But alas, that will have to end here sooner or later. As will my constantly mocking the ridiculous focus on technicals, demeanor, and cap it off stupidity of the "trade him!" movement, which btw reached such heights on the "other board" that something like 70% of the know-nothings voted to dump Boogie back around the new year.
That crap pissed me off in an enormous way, and I came this close to creating an incendiary thread that would have irradiated half the Kingdom and made the return and recovery of various people who got caught up in that stupid wake impossible. Luckily I held my keyboard and decided to let Boogie do the talking, and just contented myself in trying to reach out to Kings figures behind the scenes and let them know that wasn't how everybody felt.
In any case, people were flat ****ing wrong. And that is ego bruising. There is already, and will in upcoming months be, a lot of transparent excuses and nuances made about how they were actually right, but are happy because Boogie has changed just the way they said he needed to etc.. I will withhold my fire on most of those claims simply because they are a necessary step in people getting back onboard the wagon they just dove off of. Whatever it takes, and whatever stupidity was done, people have to have a safe route back without being more than gently chided or ego comes into play.
There's got to be some lessons learned in all this nonsense though. HAVE to be. Spoken or unspoken, people have to learn form this crap:
1) you don't trade your in prime superstar. YOU DON'T.
2) you don't turn on somebody who has been uncommmonlyy and unrequitedly loyal to your franchise. You don't. That's then you being disloyal and ungrateful. Its a bad look. And a guy getting a technical is not him being disloyal to you or anybody else.
3) you DON'T quit, you DON'T run, you DON'T panic. Panicking is for cowards. You hang tough. That may be my own personal creed, but I think a lot of panicked herds and movements could be saved by people adopting some of it. You hang in there. When the lemmings start running for the cliff, you pump the brakes and say what the hell?
4) Grant Napear and his ****ing radio goons are not righteous people. National media figures looking for hits and drama are doing so for selfish reasons. The truth is not of primary interest to these people. Following them is like following any demagogue -- a sign of weakness or gullibility. They only have power through you. They only have power if you buy in and do their dirty work for them.
Now the team is turning. I told you so's are warranted. For the most part they won't be coming. People need to dust themselves off, climb back on board and see where this goes. For all the splinter movements, I have to say that George Karl is almost surely going to be here, and if we carry this winning on into the next month before that brutal streak, Rudy and Ben likely are too, although a little of that will depend on how aggressive a GM Vlade turns out to be. Our last GM was a geeky little fool with no people sense, and he disrupted a good thing forming up right at a critical moment because he didn't understand this is a people business, not a numbers business. Vlade is highly unlikely to make that same mistake. If he makes a move it will have to be small enough and safe enough he is sure we can absorb it. When a team is coming together and starting to win you don't screw with its cohesion.
