I have a feeling the Lin fans aren't going to be so bad. I think they know he's an underdog. Yao fans were first here for their countryman's pride Tracy fans were here to waste server space
It's not necessarily relevancy. We weren't deep threat with Yao necessarily. It's the fact that Lin is a novelty and certain fans (especially international ones) are notoriously oblivious to loyalty and team-before-player.
what if they are Knick Lin fans and start dissing the 94 championship saying that the Knicks should have won? Yao fans are Yao fans. If they say he's better than Hakeem, a real Rocket fan would tell him why he isn't.
How many people are saying those things though? I don't think I've ever seen that. If Knick fans come here they probably did so because of the guys trolling their forum.
come on dude, you were even on this thread http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=6344540&postcount=147
On a serious note, Chinese posters are the wittiest when posting in Chinese. They come here just to let you know how much they support and love their beloved star and they took the trouble doing it in a different language. Doesnt that show their passion? Of course they are biased and often not informed. So laught it along or ignore it because they don't give a xxxx what you have to say and they will keep coming. We are all bunch of crazy irrational sports fan any ways.
I wish some Knick fans would show up. I would ask them why we always seem to own all their draft picks. Free second rounders taste SO sweet (D-Mo)
Nobody hates the chinese fans. it's the fans that show up and think that their favorite player can do no wrong and that he's bigger than the team. if you say that yao had a bad rebounding game, which is based on watching the game and the stats, certain YOFs would consider that hating on Yao.
He's always overreacting to silly stuff and acting like a member of the internet police. Sadly, he's serious.
Well, you could just ignore them or poke a little fun out of it. Look there are people really into something and there are people, well, very biased not informed. I just don't see why get so serious with them, especially if you know they are not informed and posting in a non-native language.
not to bring obvious logic into it but 1) Lin's fans are Asian American. Yao's fans were Chinese. There's maybe no difference to you but 1 are Americans and 1 are Chinese. 2) Yao came into the league 10 years ago Chinese fans today are a generation older, much more savvy and entirely different from back then. Many of those YOF's first real interaction with Americans was here on clutchfans. Many never watched basketball before. You're not going probably find 1 LOF who comes here for whom those 2 the case 3) Of course the bandwagon will roll on through here but arguing that LOF could in any way be worse than YOF is just r-tarded. Them boys were clueless. It's probably going to be more annoying to have Knicks fans here trolling after a bad game saying Houston sucks than dealing with LOF, who probably don't even exist.
Well thought except that there is no segregation what fan will root for Lin. Yao had American, European fans as well so Lin has a huge fan base both in China, Taiwan and in the States.
I don't mind LOF's But I am already annoyed by Asian American friends who were casual basketball fans (at best) who are going nuts over Lin's signing and posting a ton about it (when they never post about basketball). It's somehow irritating that there wouldn't have been a peep if it was Howard or Bynum or Asik...but Lin = go craaaaaaaaaaazy. Yet, that's part of the marketing machine that makes this deal so valuable.
Honestly, given the number of tools spamming new threads to see their name on the Internet, *before* Lin arrived, can it really get any worse? The biggest problem here is spamming of worthless threads, esp those that are clearly redundant threads near the front of the pile here.
