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How interested/engaged/enthusiastic are you about the Jazz right now?

How interested/engaged/enthusiastic are you about the Jazz right now compared to in the past?

  • More interested than normal

    Votes: 8 11.6%

  • About the same level of interest as normal

    Votes: 14 20.3%

  • Less Interested than normal (but will likely be more interested once the team starts winning)

    Votes: 21 30.4%

  • Less interested than normal (but will be more interested once a player/coach/FO member(s) changes)

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Less interested than normal and not likely to regain normal interest level

    Votes: 18 26.1%

  • I'm more interested in a specific player(s) than I am the Jazz as a team

    Votes: 5 7.2%
  • Total voters
    69
For inexplicable reasons, even after vexing introspection, I find myself thinking about Utah Jazz thematic issues at a rate greater than is typical in August, high summer here in Edinburgh. I am writing a new treatise on human nature, fortified by ale, and I shall use this topic as a starting point on in-group/out-group psychological dispositions.
 
The rebuild after the Gobert/Mitchell blow-up has been lackluster at best, and has netted us exactly enough to be middle of the road for the foreseeable future, with nothing in the way of assets to help us get any better. Unless we strike gold in the draft again, something along the lines of Mitchell or Gobert, then we are stuck on the mediocrity treadmill yet again. I have lost most interest I have ever had in the team, and this last draft with the **** the league pulled to get the darlings the best picks all but killed my interest in the NBA in general. **** them and **** Ryan and his "team" who are obviously more focused on putting butts in the seats and acquiring other entertainment venues and vehicles than they are in fielding a truly competitive NBA team. They can go **** themselves with that ****. I am pretty close to just being done with it all. I kind of hope more fans are also done with it so it prompts them to change, but that will not be the case, and they will continue business as usual.
 
I voted less interest than normal and not likely to regain the same level of interest, but it's not because I'm upset about anything. I am hoping that I am just maturing and realizing that being a super fan is not the best use of my time. I think/hope that I am starting to gain some wisdom as I get older and it's causing me to care about things that add more fulfilment than being a sports fan.

(I'm probably just fooling myself)
 
Will always be a fan. Hard to stay dialed in and watch 60 losses. I'll more or less be tracking the team thru the box scores / JFC commentary.
 
I spend a similar amount of time thinking about the NBA, but a lot of that time is spent to more general things like the draft instead of the Jazz specifically. So you could say my engagement has dropped.

It's hard to hold the same interest when everyone around you is clearly less interested. Friends/family clearly are either disgusted or disinterested in the Jazz altogether. The Jazz aren't a topic of normal conversation like they were before. I'm the "Jazz/NBA guy" in my social circle, but I really don't know what to say to people other than that they are trying to lose on purpose by design. The forum has definitely gotten quiter as well, so it's just more difficult overall to be a fan even if you want to engage more.

Following European Football/Premier League has been a new interest of mine and it's been awesome. Football culture/competition is infinitely more entertaining and engaging than the world of basketball/NBA. There is only so much time in a day, so I told myself I cannot become a superfan of another sport so I stay more of a casual fan....but I could eventually see myself switching over to being a football fan first. That has less to do with the Jazz tanking and more with the entire league itself. The NBA is producing a very poor product for the fans IMO and it's getting worse and worse.
 
KqWIN said:
It's hard to hold the same interest when everyone around you is clearly less interested. Friends/family clearly are either disgusted or disinterested in the Jazz altogether. The Jazz aren't a topic of normal conversation like they were before. I'm the "Jazz/NBA guy" in my social circle, but I really don't know what to say to people other than that they are trying to lose on purpose by design. The forum has definitely gotten quiter as well, so it's just more difficult overall to be a fan even if you want to engage more.

Following European Football/Premier League has been a new interest of mine and it's been awesome. Football culture/competition is infinitely more entertaining and engaging than the world of basketball/NBA. There is only so much time in a day, so I told myself I cannot become a superfan of another sport so I stay more of a casual fan....but I could eventually see myself switching over to being a football fan first. That has less to do with the Jazz tanking and more with the entire league itself. The NBA is producing a very poor product for the fans IMO and it's getting worse and worse.
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Nice, do you have any teams you support or are you just a fan in general. I'm glad the PL season is back, nice to wake up and watch games on the weekend.
 
prodigy said:
Nice, do you have any teams you support or are you just a fan in general. I'm glad the PL season is back, nice to wake up and watch games on the weekend.
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I mainly support Tottenham. I picked them because they seemed to be similarish to the Jazz when I started following. They were a good team that won a lot but they do not win trophies lol. But that's kind of the brilliances of football. Spurs had a horrible season, and yet they came away with their first trophy in years. Incredible moment. There's so much to play/compete for and every match seems like life and death. Every weekend there is a big match that is meaningful, and once the cups get going there's massive games during the week as well.

Such a change of pace from the NBA where they do anything and everything to tell you why the game you're watching isn't meaningful. I'm just not a huge fan of the "championship or bust" NBA because it means that nothing else really matters. I enjoy the sport of basketball, it will always be my favorite. But the experience of being an NBA fan just sucks IMO.
 
Timing of this poll could not be worse if you are looking for an honest pulse check.

I will wait and see what my interest level is when TC starts. Last season it was fine until I saw Cody play and TH get injured after which it plummeted.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I voted less interest than normal and not likely to regain the same level of interest, but it's not because I'm upset about anything. I am hoping that I am just maturing and realizing that being a super fan is not the best use of my time. I think/hope that I am starting to gain some wisdom as I get older and it's causing me to care about things that add more fulfilment than being a sports fan.

(I'm probably just fooling myself)
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LOL, pretty much the same internal dialogue I've been having lately. I'll continue to follow this year mostly to root for the youngsters, but if I see the Jazz pulling the same shiite as last year (i.e., intentionally manipulating games to lose), I'll pull the plug. It's hard to get too enthusiastic until there's evidence that the FO actually has and is executing plan other than "let's suck and cross our fingers we get lucky in the lottery."
 
HermanG said:
Timing of this poll could not be worse if you are looking for an honest pulse check.

I will wait and see what my interest level is when TC starts. Last season it was fine until I saw Cody play and TH get injured after which it plummeted.
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Feel free to start a poll whenever you think is better timing. This is relevant to how I'm feeling and interested in what others are feeling currently. There are options for different scenarios that could raise your interest.
 
KqWIN said:
I mainly support Tottenham. I picked them because they seemed to be similarish to the Jazz when I started following. They were a good team that won a lot but they do not win trophies lol. But that's kind of the brilliances of football. Spurs had a horrible season, and yet they came away with their first trophy in years. Incredible moment. There's so much to play/compete for and every match seems like life and death. Every weekend there is a big match that is meaningful, and once the cups get going there's massive games during the week as well.

Such a change of pace from the NBA where they do anything and everything to tell you why the game you're watching isn't meaningful. I'm just not a huge fan of the "championship or bust" NBA because it means that nothing else really matters. I enjoy the sport of basketball, it will always be my favorite. But the experience of being an NBA fan just sucks IMO.
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True. Come to think about it they are very jazz-like. Mabye explains why I became a fan of the Buffalo Bills. Prolific offense that somehow cant put it all together in the big games, seems like we say that they are going to finally get over the hump but than they lose to Kansas City in the playoffs again.

NBA has experimented with a cup/tournament play, I just dont think anyone cares after the thing is over with.
 
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