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Do most Jazz fans not care about looking like fools to the National Media?

...seems to me that Jazz fanzs booed because....they REALLY, REALLY wanted to change there image! They booed because ANOTHER skinny white guy was picked....when they really wanted to go "hopper" with an athletic black kid who could leap tall buildings in a single bound, take his man off the dribble, "create" his own shot....and if nothing more, give them some AND1 entertainment for this next season! It would have been bad had they NOT booed! There cheering would have certainly been construed as being racist! At some point, the Jazz are going to go "hopper"....just not this year!
 
Yes sometimes Jazz fans cross the line. However, Jazz fans did not invent bad behavior. ESPN has been anti-Utah for a long time. Then national media has done a better job over the years but they too have said a lot of negative things about the Jazz. I have learned to ignore most of what they say. I can guarantee if the Jazz moved to Las Vegas the negativity would immediately go away.

I have witness just as bad behavior or worse in places like Philly, Detroit, Washngton, Houston, Cleveland, LA etc.

What the Jazz fans need is to collectively organize and call ESPN out for their own poor behavior. I know ESPN doesn't care but it would make some Jazzfans feel better.

Espn thinks booing the pick means that Utah hates Gordon Hayward but since the national media doesn't follow the everyday ins and outs of Jazzfans they are clueless why Jazz fans are upset. Its the same thing about the Fisher story. I have yet to hear any announcer actually tell the Jazz side of the story.
 
Harcher said:
When Deron was drafted it was 1/2 boos and 1/2 cheers due to the Chris Paul option. thinking logically, how different did everyone see DW and CP, but we as emotional fans made a big deal out of it. If it were just logic we would have cheered loudly for either.
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Harcher, you speak of "emotional fans," which kinda gives the impression of a fan whose main motive and concern is benefit to, and improvement of, the team. Going back to the Williams/Paul "debate" there was a significant segment of posters who simply became Williams haters because their own real motive was to attempt to prove that they knew more than anyone else.

Quite a few could not leave it at "I preferred Paul, but Williams is a good player, so I'm not gunna piss and moan 24/7." On the contrary, many made a virtual career out of denigrating Williams and declaring that, essentially, he was no more than a glorified scrub. They desparately wanted Williams to utterly fail, just so they could say "I told ya!" Wanting the team to succeed was not really even part of their outlook. Hate, especially when generated by egomania, is a powerful thing. But hatred is not the equivalent of "being a fan," anymore than a spoiled, demanding, fit-throwing 7 seven-year old is simply the equivlent of "being a kid."
 
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Don't get me wrong...I'm all about hatin as an NBA fan. It would be perverse NOT to hate NBA players, coaches, front offices, etc., and pray that they fail. But not the ones on your own team, see what I mean?
 
Ok, I guess the common idea from posters here is that most don't care at all if we act like grumpy, spoiled children and the national media crucifies us for it. Whatever.
 
Golfman said:
Ok, I guess the common idea from posters here is that most don't care at all if we act like grumpy, spoiled children and the national media crucifies us for it. Whatever.
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spoiled children? Because they wanted a big when their starting center blew out his Achilles and the next guys are KK & Fes?

Getting bashed for the Fisher Lied T-shirts and the booing of Fisher ok I get the backlash on that from a certain perspective but booing a draft pick is perfectly normal and acceptable. Hey at least people give a **** here unlike a lot of NBA cities.
 
Chad Feldheimer said:
spoiled children? Because they wanted a big when their starting center blew out his Achilles and the next guys are KK & Fes?

Getting bashed for the Fisher Lied T-shirts and the booing of Fisher ok I get the backlash on that from a certain perspective but booing a draft pick is perfectly normal and acceptable. Hey at least people give a **** here unlike a lot of NBA cities.
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Yeah spoiled children. Not getting what you want, and throwing a tantrum (booing, freaking out on message boards, suggesting KOC needs bodyguards, starting FIRE KOC Threads) about it is similar to a spoiled child. If the Jazz were losers every year like the Clippers, I would understand. But the Jazz are a great franchise, and are in contention every year and fans show no respect for that.

Who did people want? Whiteside, who couldn't even make it out of the first round? Cole Aldrich, another big tall white guy (already have two of those)? Xavier Henry, he's not a big guy, neither is Paul George. Ed Davis and Patrick Patterson are the only other guys I could think of that would have made sense. Who did you want as your starting center? Is Aldrich the solution to our problems? Is he going to scare the Lakers? I think not.

I am all about booing, but at the right time. When we boo a pick just because we don't agree with them, when most people don't understand the draft, is just childish, in my opinion. Heck, we booed Stockton, bet those fans feel stupid. No matter what KOC did he was going to piss off a lot of people.
 
Fools?

You must be talking about the national media, not jazz fans, who called Fisher a classy player who never flops.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted the Magic and Cavs to play in the ECF.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted the Jazz to lose to Crymelo.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted that Kobe was getting old and couldn't carry a team anymore.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted the Rockets, then Warriors, to clean us out.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted the 04 jazz team to finish in a historic Nets like fashion.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted a 16 team Pac-10.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted the Cowboys winning the super bowl.
You must be talking about the national media that predicted a Rolling Tide beatdown on the Utes.

Fools? Aren't Jazz fans. Fools are the national media personalities who base all their opinions on cut up Brett Farve and Lebron highlights. Boo yeah.
 
carolinajazz said:
...seems to me that Jazz fanzs booed because....they REALLY, REALLY wanted to change there image! They booed because ANOTHER skinny white guy was picked....when they really wanted to go "hopper" with an athletic black kid who could leap tall buildings in a single bound, take his man off the dribble, "create" his own shot....and if nothing more, give them some AND1 entertainment for this next season! It would have been bad had they NOT booed! There cheering would have certainly been construed as being racist! At some point, the Jazz are going to go "hopper"....just not this year!
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Aint a bad theory, CJ, but I dunno....they booed Williams, too, and he's like, the hopperiest, ya know!? Throwin passes off the backboard to players behind him that he can't even see....jukin and breakin ankles with sick crossovers...not even thinkin about passin when he sees a good chance to dunk in yo face...gunnin up 3's, the whole hopper kit and kaboodle, I tellya!
 
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