The "Poor Me" Disease

[jcassio]

just can't help it!

I wish to God that some of you frequent posters would just let people have their threads without feeling it necessary to judge the value of the thread (in your opinion).

If no one posts to a thread, that speaks louder than your words! If people do post to it, what's the harm? (unless, of course, it's inappropriate)

I suggest some of you save your posts for the threads that warrant your participation. Knowing that you can't stop yourself even if you wanted to, I guess I won't expect any change in your behavior...

 

[NewArena]

I wish to God that some of you frequent posters would just let people have their threads without feeling it necessary to judge the value of the thread (in your opinion).

If no one posts to a thread, that speaks louder than your words! If people do post to it, what's the harm? (unless, of course, it's inappropriate)

I suggest some of you save your posts for the threads that warrant your participation. Knowing that you can't stop yourself even if you wanted to, I guess I won't expect any change in your behavior...

Thank you, took the words right from my fingers.

 

[sactownfan]

Reality check: IT'S PRE-SEASON! The guys are getting used to playing with each other. Now is exactly the time when they should be communicating frustration, etc. to each other so they can play better together WHEN IT COUNTS!

Sam Amick is full of it IMHO. He'd rather try and stir up stuff than anything else. Beno wasn't whining to the officials, he used the EXACT right "time and place" to tell Jason about something he didn't do right. Yeah, the Lakers went on a fast break but so what?

Did I mention this was a PRE-SEASON game? Also known as a scrimmage?

"Punk'd the crap outa Beno"? Good lord.

are you kidding me!? its like throwing an interception in football and half the team just gives up and starts yelling at each other while the other team runs back the interception for a touchdown.... Every coach in the NFL would rip into those quitters.

Beno turned it over his fault or not and just quit... QUIT... that mean he stopped playing the game... there's nothing ok about just quitting and leaving the few guys that aren't quitters by themselves on a lakers fast break... im sure Reggie would tell you every play counts... and to never give up and always play hard... give me a break

 

[Mateo]

are you kidding me!? its like throwing an interception in football and half the team just gives up and starts yelling at each other while the other team runs back the interception for a touchdown.... Every coach in the NFL would rip into those quitters.

Beno turned it over his fault or not and just quit... QUIT... that mean he stopped playing the game... there's nothing ok about just quitting and leaving the few guys that aren't quitters by themselves on a lakers fast break... im sure Reggie would tell you every play counts... and to never give up and always play hard... give me a break

You're over-analyzing. He was just explaining to JT what he did wrong. You don't know what he was saying to him. It didn't matter if he got back or not anyways. I would rather have him explain to JT what he did wrong, especially in a preseason game. He didn't just quit on the play. These types of things are fine in a preseason game.

 

[bajaden]

are you kidding me!? its like throwing an interception in football and half the team just gives up and starts yelling at each other while the other team runs back the interception for a touchdown.... Every coach in the NFL would rip into those quitters.

Beno turned it over his fault or not and just quit... QUIT... that mean he stopped playing the game... there's nothing ok about just quitting and leaving the few guys that aren't quitters by themselves on a lakers fast break... im sure Reggie would tell you every play counts... and to never give up and always play hard... give me a break

I've watched that play several times, and in my humble opinion, there was no way Beno was going stop him from scoring. The best he might have been able to do is foul him and maybe, turn it into a three pt play. Much ado about nothing, in my opinion. There are more important things to talk about.

I'm Bajaden, and I approve this add!!

 

[sactownfan]

You're over-analyzing. He was just explaining to JT what he did wrong. You don't know what he was saying to him. It didn't matter if he got back or not anyways. I would rather have him explain to JT what he did wrong, especially in a preseason game. He didn't just quit on the play. These types of things are fine in a preseason game.

dude they watch hours of game footage.... he could have showed him at anytime... but good thing he told him right then and there what he did wrong, while Beno was doing wrong by not playing defense!? stupid....

since the preseason doesn't matter... call a Timeout and tell him what he did wrong... or wait tell the next stop in play vs letting the lakers walk down for an easy basket...

I don't care and im sure Reggie doesn't care if its the preseason or not.... DONT FREAKING QUIT, AND DONT QUIT ON THE TEAM! GET BACK ON DEFENSE! especially just to cry about a turnover...

Garcia ran at Beno to straighten him out after the fast break... that about wins this argument for me... thanks for coming out!

 

[FakeInjury]

After the MLE extention, Beno has become an investment. The team will win and loose along with beno and the way he plays. If Beno couldn't or didn't have the potential to run a fast break or an uptempo offense, he wouldn't have been extended to the extent he was. Unless the kings are trying to dibilitate themselves(which i havent ruled out), Beno should be sufficient at the pg. One or two plays don't make a player who he is. Its the overall ability and desire to use that ability for the success of the team that makes a player. Plus, Bobby Brown looks like a risky player, he shoots threes and will make a home-run pass; Which could balance the pg attack scheme very well. I'm not too worried about player attitudes, but it is a great point to bring up. Psycologically speaking, when artest left, most everyone's individual role on the team should change. Artest was the godfather, for lack of a better way to describe his role last year. Now Martin is going to try to fill that role of leader and go-2 player, on offense. Who will pick up the mantle on defense? a few other question need to be asked. But mainly, without a rock such as artest, it will be very easy for these players to slip in to a "poor me" mentality, because they don't have a super-stud peer to literally TELL them to stop. Coaches aren't peers. And i dont think MArtin has enough status yet to be able to command like artest could demand from his team.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Having not seen any of the games yet this preseason, its kind of hard for me to say that this issue is such a "grave" problem. Brad has always seemed to play that way, but I think you see a little bit of this from nearly every player from time to time. IMO, we're not good enough to worry about this costing us anything, other than a higher pick in the draft.