I'll save you the trouble regarding Lin.

(But dem Laker DOH's, doe...?)

Big men (except Yao) DON'T have NEAR the following of wing players. Even Shaq who might have the biggest marketable personality of centers ever along with Wilt, his status pales in comparison to Kobe.

And Dwight doesnt really have a close 2nd place at his position. And Dwight went AWAY from the TRUE "ring chasing" franchise. Its almost like a REVERSE Lebron Decision, it'd be like Lebron choosing AWAY from the Heat and going to Cleveland.

So I don't expect much DOH FANS. Only some media hit pieces

(And this "-OF" and "-OH" thing has always been dumb)

 

LOH is not a Clutchfans canonized term. LOF isn't really either, but at least it makes some sense.

 

I thought LOH stood for
Lin obsessed hypocrites

 

That actually makes more sense.

 

LOF : someone who follow the rockets only because of Jeremy Lin. Cares little about the team.

LOH: obviously the opposite. Someone who follow the rockets solely to hate on Lin. Cares little about the team.

Now I'm sure there are a number of Rocket fans here who are not very fond of Lin, for many different reasons, and their presence are probably compounded by the activity of LOFs. But let's not pretend that Lin is the only person Rocket fans are not fond of. Carl Herrera for example dislikes T Rob and is quite vocal about it, but T Rob is most likely not the only Rocket player he has ever disliked.

I'm sure there are people who sign up to clutchfans who are actually LOHs, but I highly doubt they exist in significant numbers because the activity is sad and pointless, and only a select few would bother to actively spend time trolling.

 

I usually skip your posts tinman but this one was quite profound.
Nicely done.

 

Basically a large group of fans came to clutchfans because they like Lin.
What they expected was that clutchfans was a site where we unconditionally worshipped Lin like some savior and jerked off to the Knicks brief success with him.
When they found out that this place had real rockets fans who cared about the team and real basketball they started blaming stuff on race and hatred.
Because of their opposite of Harvard vocabulary and absolute lack of humor and creativity, they created the term "only haters"
My dog is more creative than that.
now that we got dwight Howard they feel nervous and marginalized.
The main topics will not be about Lin going forward .

I like Lin . The pied piper not what follows him

 

I think it's the bogeyman effect. Lin Haters think that there are a legion of Lin fans on this board that think Lin is an all star level player and above any criticism, while blaming others for Lins shortcomings. They think these fans will refute any and all criticism of based Lin and talk smack to anyone who dares criticize the Great Lin. They also think these crazy fans think Lin comes before the team.

This can't be further from the truth. Straight up, Lin is not an all star level player (as of yet), needs to work on his handles, and though his shooting improved a lot, still needs to have a much better shooting touch especially 3s. And Lin is secondary as are all our players to the Houston Rockets. Let's see how many of these "LOFs" refute this statement....

Those fans can GTFO, but to marginalize every poster who defends Lin as being crazy?? Come on. Your hate is irrational, illogical, and smacks of an f'ed up personality. Why such rampant hate? Either you guys are kids (unkind and rather dull kids at that) or sourpuss a holes who just think hating is cool.

The way I see it, you constantly attack Lin in a misguided attempt to be proven right and get rid of a player who you hate. Most people who like Lins game, try hard not to listen to your childish bs but ultimately can't stand watching a good man and our player get hated on all day and respond despite knowing they'll be labelled as a r****ded LOF. y'all need to cut that out. And there's nothing wrong with defending a player!!!! If someone criticized Harden, Omer or whoever, and kept incessantly asking to trade them, I'd be defending Harden and Omer as well. All those people who accuse people of being Lin Only Fabs or Apple fanboys, or PS3 fanboys or whatever other form of hate you guys also preach will never live a good life, make good money, or be happy in a sports forum.

Just quit the hate and stop blaming who defend against your hate. It's quite ridiculous.

 

I've said this in the beginning and I'll say it again. Name calling doesn't result in anything except causes more name calling. None of these terms would have existed if the existing fans didn't result to name calling in every single thread going "LOH" this and "LOH" that. This is the exact same reason racism happened.

 

Too bad you followed up your previous one line badabing post with this one.

I was with you until "...now that we got dwight Howard they (Lin fans) feel nervous and marginalized. The main topics will not be about Lin going forward."

I don't think Lin fans feel nervous or marginalized now that Dwight's here, or that they give a hoot about main topics not being about Lin anymore.

The Lin haters will keep the topics going no doubt. The Lin fans are probably excited to see how their boy plays with D12.

 

which came first, the chicken or the egg?

lof creates loh.
and loh gives birth to more lof which creates more loh.
or the other way round?

 

Right now Jeremy Lin is the Houston Rockets' starting point guard for next season, and Morey has stated on the record that he has no intention to trade him.

So shut it, and support your starting pg.

 

You are wrong on so many fronts. Noone thinks Lin is above the Rockets, if so this forum is not for them. Noone worships Lin and everyone sees his weaknesses. It's the haters who coined the term LOF and in response to idiocy made an equally bad "only hater" term. What we have are a bunch of true spiteful haters who just can't stand Lins game, and those that defend Lin as a player they like.

Where are these purported Lin fans who think he's above the Rockets and don't have major weaknesses? Ill bet you won't find them cuz it's a fantasy only in your mind of these dumb non-basketball following Lin worshippers who attack and blame everyone for Lins faults. What is in fact happening is that Lin fans rarely attack anyone and are just defending Lin against malicious hateful comments. Do you just want them all to shut their traps while yopeople continue to hate on Lin or do you just not see the hate? Maybe you don't see the hate. It doesn't matter. There's nothing wrong with defending Lin. Those who blame harden for Lins shortcomings are misguided but few. Stop imagining that there are a legion of crazy Lin fans and recognize that the hate against is Lin is far more rampant than those who blame Harden or can't see Lins weaknesses

 

The sad thing is LOF and LOH came from the NYK community. It was brought over to Clutchfans.

 

What is the term for a person who likes Lin but can't stand his idiotic minions?

 

Claim that people don't recognize the hate while simultaneously not recognizing the fanatics who go to great lengths to blame any and everyone for Lins shortcomings. Comical and hypocritical.

It goes both ways on CFans and for you to deny it is just downright crazy. There are idiots on both sides. I wont even begin to deny that there are blatant haters, and if I had to guess there are some Lin fans who put me in that group when it couldn't be further from the truth.

I read this board a ton and I know there are posters like you who only focus on the hate and mostly ignore the ridiculous love and go to great lengths to defend him. At the same time I know I and many other posters focus more on the ridiculous pro Lin posts that claim he is the greatest thing since sliced bread and go to great lengths to ground those posters in reality. Just how it's gonna be I guess.

 

Clutch fan

 

The problem here, is everyone thinks he is the logical Rockets Fan, and whoever says a good thing about Jeremy Lin is a LoF, and whoever says a bad thing about Jeremy Lin is a LoH.
well, "everyone" is a little exaggerated, but this has became a forum wide phenomenon, which I think it requires more than just definitions of LoF/LoH.

So here is the roadmap of this phenomenon:

First Stage: Jeremy Lin signed, new fans were pouring in (Asian, New Yorkers, religious fanatics, logical people who believes in and enjoy JLin's game) with old fans (who liked him while he was on the team before) cheering as well, generally high expectations, with alot doubts lurking under;

Second Stage: James Harden signed and played like a god, Jeremy Lin played like ****. People were looking for reasons to justify JLin's bad plays (straight up sucks/knee issue/can't play with Harden), and the notion of LoH/LoF had became populate by granting them to whoever is opposite of YOUR opinion.

Third Stage: Jeremy Lin scored 38pts against Spurs while Harden was DNP, and generally started playing better along side Harden. The true LoFs were starting to question Harden's ability, the Logicals laughed at the idea, but the true LoHs trolled hard and even created temp account to troll more on LoFs. The whole thing became a witch hunt of who is LoF.

Forth Stage: Rockets made playoff, Beverley has become a legit option on the PG, Jeremy Lin hurt in OKC series. The true LoHs was asking for Lin's head while some of the Logicals tempering with the possibility, the LoFs were furious while the other logicals dismiss the possibility. And there is the witch hunt of who is LoH.

Fifth Stage: Howard signed, Lin not traded (yet), a thread like this is created in hope to end the war, but everyone is claiming themselves as the logicals.

And three things made this phenomenon worse:
1. People don't understand sarcasm;
2. Trolls (drunk/high/too much porns/loser of life) who likes to outragous things to get attention (Glen Baker);
3. Just like Skip Bayless brings up MJ every time he can't reason with an argument, alot of the fans here just using the notion of LoH and LoF to skip an argument.

 

Everyone shutup. The OP is right. /END THREAD