It's not a strawman. There are literally people in this thread arguing everyone criticizing Lin's horrendous play is harboring at least some subconscious racist prejudices. Even you are suggesting that I have prejudices toward Lin: How about the fact that he's a fairly large net negative on the court, the stats prove it, his own words say it, and people are pointing it out. By the way, Rafer Alston also rebounded, dished assists, and got plenty of steals (while playing better D). He still sucked. Lin is sucking. Deal with it.
His fans are annoying. They cant stand any criticism ands use the race card when they as well us real fans that lin is an solid to above average player.He is adequate at best.
Guys, you've got to realize Spiegel is just someone who shouts and changes his views on a daily basis, and quite inconsistently (but doing so consistently). For example Chicago game thread - Parsons after an slow start to the season is becoming a factor again. His rebounding has really impressed me most. I think this guy plays like an mature leader. Next game vs NYK - Chander bangs cieling is an borderline star and elite role player which is a damn steal for a 2nd round pickup on a 800 thousend dollar contract. My comment: A big change in view after just one game, right? On Lin today - Lin fans are the most delusional fanbase on the face of the planet. They expect him to be this stud when he is never going to be. 24 is not young anymore -His fans are annoying. They cant stand any criticism ands use the race card when they as well us real fans that lin is an solid to above average player.He is adequate at best. My comment: Parsons is 24 now, Lin did Linsanity at age 23 with less NBA games and minutes under his belt, for a bigger sample size. Parsons is improving at age 24, and so is Lin in other facets of his game, shooting slump not withstanding My comments: And this is not about racism. It is just pure bias, using reasoning that is just laughable, on comments spaced literally just days apart, using a different benchmark to judge two teammates. BTW, I think Parsons is going to be a 3rd tier SF easily, and has a chance to be a 2nd tier SF in the league, possibly, (the Danny Granger tier), but he's far from that yet. No hate from me on Parsons. But c'mon, Parsons has not demonstrated anything comparable to Jeremy Lin for the NYKs last year, on any meaningful sample size, and he's a year older than Lin was last year in NY. But the thing is, guys like Spiegel will just turn around and say, I ain't no biased, I just say it as it is. It's you Lin fans that are the problems and delusional.
What Air Langhai said was spot on. You are biased towards lin due to you're asian hertiage. Another case of blind fandom.
I just showed you what you yourself wrote, and critiqued the inconsistencies a little. Looks biased if you ask me. Even if sub-consciously (hard to give you that much credit though ... you've done it so consistently). You just make assumptions and quote another guy that also make assumptions and ignorant posts. Just look at your own posting history. Or better, invite others to do so.
Hey man, that's wasn't necessary. Guys like Spiegel will shout there's no racism in him, yet at any opportunity try to bait people into a racism fact-finding contest that is virtually impossible on a fan forum. He's just trying to bait and distract attention from the fact that in 1 game, his view on Chandler Bang went from someone just coming out of a slump into someone who's a borderline star, at the age of 24 when a couple of days later he says Lin cannot improve at 24 and is pretty much a average or adequate at best, when Linsanity happened when Lin was 23. You just need to let him face his own bias and inability to reason/judge, and not let him bait you into a racism contest, which by virtue of him shouting louder, he will more than likely win. Despite him being the one writing useless crap.
Here we go, the race card is out ONCE AGAIN. I was destroyingh Tmac when he was acting like a b****, was i a racist towards african americans as well?
Trying to do it again? We'll let others read the above posts and see who brought out the race card on a certain poster with asian heritage and blind fandom ... Stop embarrassing yourself. It's worse than a Lin 3pt airball and Felton going 3-19, combined. At least they gave an effort, and didn't give excuses and blame others.
So you're sayin you're not biased towards lin? and lin fans are not biased and dont bash sapmson by calling him racist and Harden is'nt bashed here and called a ball hog. Yeah and the tooth ferry is alive and kicking. Wakeup and stop being sensitive.
Only people who embarrass themselves are lin fans who bash everyone from pillar to post to propup their idol.
No need to go there with your opinion either. I've said this to another fan of Lin poster as well, the only way to reply to people like them are to shows the facts/data, either on Lin or how they themselves have clearly shown their bias via their own posts. And then they will try to bait you with race. You let that go also. And show them more data or show up their own bias further. Then they will call you names as a last resort, and hopefully they will learn something about Lin or how to analyze basketball objectively, and something about themselves in the process.
You're pretty sensitive about Harden and Sampson it seems. No one can be bashed but Lin it seem according to you.
There certainly are Lin only fans around here. However, in life, you'll eventually grow to judge each person individually, through what they do, say or in this case, write. I feel comfortable saying you are biased against Lin based on your post history (invite others to have a look). And I feel comfortable saying you're the one playing your own share of race cards and racism baiting by what you've just tried to do to me. So learn to judge individuals individually, that's why we have an individual username here. And not judge as in you have an Asian looking surname, don't tell me you must have blind fandom due to my Asian heritage. That actually has a ... better not go there or I'll actually be the one called a racist here (the way you've been delusionally twisting everything here). And you need to grow up with the 'wake up and stop being sensitive crap' after this round of posting exposed you for what you are.
