Aiight, Bawse. Y'all got it.
Yeah, I only watch a couple of Kings game and haven't watched any of the playoffs - and I've watched most of the finals over the last 10 years. I just wasn't interested this season, and it's clear I'm not alone. For me, it's not about the "product" on the floor; I'm just not excited about the audience-less sport at this time. I think I'll be back on board next year.
#SticktoOats
Game 2 down way more.
What kind of reductive, ignorant reasoning is that? Game 2 still beat all those other events, and it wasn't particularly close; it's just that they didn't get the numbers that they usually get, when people aren't watching those other events, instead. The game still won its timeslot, and it won the "key" demo. That the Finals have to deal with counterprogramming that it's literally never had to deal with before (There's also been some fairly important stuff going on the news, that's been commanding people's attention, in case you weren't aware), and still finish Number One in its timeslot, is a point in its favor, not to its detriment. To pretend otherwise is to be completely disingenuous.
That is a good answer. Multiple reasons.
I mean, it's a good answer, if you find tautologies to be good answers, in general. The difficulty lies in peoples' tendencies to project their motives onto other people, and to want to believe that other people are not watching for the same reasons why they're not watching.
But he didn't give an either or answer. Simply stated reasons some of his friends aren't watching. And gave several reasons unrelated to each other. If people aren't watching, there are probably numerous reasons why individuals are choosing not to. His answer was a good one because it acknowledged that there are multiple reasons people he knows aren't watching. How could that be taken as projecting why he is not, if he isn't, as why they are not?
You'll have to pardon me if I'm skeptical of people who present anecdotes as if they were data. But, even giving the benefit of the doubt (which I have no particular inclination to do), I feel like it begs some follow-up questions, because I don't take it as a given that those are actually "multiple" reasons: "Some are on to other stuff..." What they moved on to isn't important, but moving on to other stuff is not a reason, it's an outcome. Why now? What's changed between when you were watching and now, that made you decide to move on? "LeBron is a turn-off." So, does that mean that they haven't watched the Finals since 2010? And, if they have watched the Finals in the last decade, what's changed? It's not like LeBron just started being LeBron, this season. What's LeBron doing now, that he wasn't doing, say... five years ago?
