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I wish I could be a casual Jazz fan.

SoberasHotRod

SoberasHotRod

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I wish I could be satisfied watching a couple of games per year. It would be nice if I only thought about the Jazz when they were brought up in conversation by someone else. I’d love to only really know the names of our top guys vs the full life story of each two way player (preferably I wouldn’t know what a two way player was).

The more time and effort you put in to something, the more invested you are in to something, the more painful it is when you are disappointed. So when the best chance of the Jazz ending the season in a win, possibly in my life time, is dashed away by endless wide open Terance Mann 3-pointers, it’s like the culmination of the thousands of hours the Jazz have occupied my thoughts crushing my heart.

To the casual fan a win is fun and a loss is fine. They don’t spend hours after each game struggling to turn their brain off to get to sleep. The casual fan is free to enjoy life and their family October through June. The casual fan is capable of being a good employee on trade deadline or free agency start day, and not constantly checking for updates.

It’s just so illogical. No amount of effort or time I put in to the Jazz will make the team perform any better. Yet, my mood, productivity, and general well being are all tied in to this. So last Friday night I decided to stop it. No more following Jazz Twitter. No more constantly checking Jazzfanz. No more looking for new articles to read.

Well… that lasted two days. And here I am again. Back on Jazzfanz. Reading the myriad of horrible takes and trade ideas. Starting to have a glimmer of hope for next year. Finding myself interested in what the Jazz do at the draft and in free agency.

Oh No! I already know how this ends next year. Maybe I need help.
 
I've been through a couple of rough breakups in my life.

One of them hurt almost as bad as this Jazz loss.
 
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We’re all in it together! I feel this post.

This season being over hurts more because expectations were so much higher. The team did make it further than last year, which I guess is one way to measure this season as a success. But money was definitely left on the table. I was (am?) in disbelief it was really over. Conley was supposed to come back and save us, Derek fisher-style! Bojan was finding a new fire for perimeter defense. Don continued to do super human things. Quin would figure out a way to counter the small-ball looks! We’d put it together to overcome and take our rightful place at the top.

Nope. It really didn’t happen.

…Are you sure we aren’t hosting the Suns tomorrow? I can be at the arena just in case. LMK.
 
NUMBERICA said:
I want nothing more in my life. Few things provide fewer returns than being obsessed with this stupid garbage.
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I think this sums it up. There are a handful of super optimists who keep telling you that you're being short-sighted and how you're neglecting your returns. Yet we all sit there at the slot machines and somewhere after putting a couple hundred dollars in over the better part of the day, you hit some loud noises and $20 in change starts spitting out of the machine, everyone gets excited, and the optimist says "see! Look at that big return! I bet you wish you weren't so negative now!"
 
I think all of us are still learning how to best cope with these heartbreakers. Not sure what advice I have other than that this still doesn't hold a candle to game 6 in 97, 98, and especially 99 when we knew that was officially the end of the window.

My outlook is to expect the worst and hope for the best. I try not to get too attached during the regular season. It sucks though. We probably won't ever sniff the finals ever again
 
On the flip side I also can't stand the casual negative fans. The ones who don't watch the games, they don't suffer through the same crap we do, but then they think they are entitled to sit there and complain when things aren't going well or when we get bumped. That pisses me off. Like this year people come out of the woodwork to say how we're never going to go anywhere, etc., etc. I end up being the target because I always watch, and they act like they're so enlightened by this fact, but then feel they're entitled to wallow in self-pity that only those of us who have suffered through it have earned.
 
I was a casual until the last few seasons.

I am still more invested in college sports (USU and Kansas) than I am to the Jazz. That being said, the Jazz have really sucked me in the last few years because the NBA has the benefit of being something you can follow basically year-round. Long season, playoffs, draft, summer league, free agency, and then you’re basically already back in training camp and ready to go again.

We’re just a few weeks away from all being balls-deep in draft workouts/trade speculation. The combine is this week!
 
Yep same, I stopped pretty much all online until today I also couldn't watch anything NBA related on TV. Heck even after the game 4 loss I was slowing my online consumption of the Jazz cause of all the negativity and didn't need anything making more pissed and disapointed than I was already getting from watching the games.
 
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On the flip side I also can't stand the casual negative fans. The ones who don't watch the games, they don't suffer through the same crap we do, but then they think they are entitled to sit there and complain when things aren't going well or when we get bumped. That pisses me off. Like this year people come out of the woodwork to say how we're never going to go anywhere, etc., etc. I end up being the target because I always watch, and they act like they're so enlightened by this fact, but then feel they're entitled to wallow in self-pity that only those of us who have suffered through it have earned.
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