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[Fact Checker] did MDA say Morey "screwed it up" at trade deadline

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by heypartner, Oct 16, 2017.

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Did MDA throw shade at Morey for screwing up a 60-win season

  1. Definitely Wrong (MDA meant team screwed it up, not Morey)

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  2. Mostly Wrong (only Anderson screwed it up)

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  3. In era of Fake News, I always vote maybe maybe no, now

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  4. Yes, told you so

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  5. Fire Morey!

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  6. Who cares, Tha_Dude says he loves me & that we'll BEAT THE WARRIORS!

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  1. daywalker02

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    Passive aggressive kind of person, this bag of chips.
     
    #41 daywalker02, Oct 17, 2017
  2. heypartner

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    It's nice of you guys to offer me an excuse for being wrong, like I must be drunk or something. But sadly that's not the reason.

    I think maybe I've become susceptible to negativity, lately, especially in how the GARM dissects stats and tweets, especially tweets with stats. I've started seeking the most negative interpretations in everything. Thank God for the poll feature and Fact Checking to set me straight, again.
     
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  3. Tha_Dude

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    What about anticipation for the season to start? I can only speak for myself here but I've been ready to get the stink of game 6 out of my system for awhile now, also the whole Melo-drama stuff that clouded over the GARM for months at no end. I think people are just in a more cynical mood than usual but it will go away tomorrow night. ;)
     
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  4. heypartner

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    I think the positivity is already showing.

    Imagine if someone posted that Feigen tweet of MDA's negative quote and titled it "MDA admits the team 'screwed it up' last season." And added in the OP only the comment, "I told you once defenses figured us out, we became predicable and 'very, very mediocre.'" In a parallel universe of negative threads, we could have one full of takes like this:

    "If we played like we did after last all-star break, we'd be on pace for the 8th seed this season." -- @RocketsFido​

    So, I guess the bright side of my utterly wrong interpretation of the tweet is that I posted the Tweet first, but in such a laughably wrong way, that no negativity happened. Maybe that's the answer to a positive GARM; like in D&D, we interpret negative quotes like MDAs in a false way, resulting in everything laughing.

    hmmm...I'll have to think about that some more. Maybe try it out -- like say, on purpose, as a test.
     
    #44 heypartner, Oct 17, 2017
  5. ryano2009

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    5 star thread.....for trolling and trying to stir up a drama
     
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  6. Tha_Dude

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    Come on, Hp. It's the poster who makes the thread as well as the type of language used in it that will always have the biggest influence on the types of responses you get. You're usually a positive type of guy and you also know your basketball better than most here so most of the folks who respond to your threads tend to keep that in mind. I think some here couldn't tell if you were being serious or not, I did catch the humorous undertones though.

    But, I see humor in everything. Laughter is always the best medicine, Hp. Remember that.
     
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  7. heypartner

    heypartner Contributing Member

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    Let me see if I'm following:

    So, you're saying the legitimacy of the truth or falsehood of the OP has little influence on the level of debate it creates, but rather it's who posts it, and what narrative is being promoted. Just like in D&D??

    Meaning I can't possibly create a controversial thread that gains traction, with a simple one-line opening take of limiting factual support under a polarizing thread title, no matter how hard I try. But I can diffuse a potentially very divisive MDA quote about "screwing up last year, and being very, very mediocre" that could devolve into blaming Morey and Harden, simply by being a lightening rod for laughing at how wrong I was for saying MDA was blaming Morey.

    hmmm...I'll have to think about that some more.
     
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  8. Tha_Dude

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    Why is it that everything has to come down to narratives and who loves who?

    Why do any of us need to make a controversial thread btw, or be mad about it when it backfires? Hmm?
     
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    now see here I was thinking you were striving for some uber meta level of double irony or something, when in fact you were just plain old-fashioned wrong. that will teach ME to overthink things. :p
     
    #49 Os Trigonum, Oct 17, 2017
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    OP prolly been hacked by his niece
     
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    In January we were like 10-7, hit a tough patch in the middle of the month.

    So I think it was before the trade
     
    #51 Mr. Clutch, Oct 17, 2017
  12. rockets13champs

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    We sucked ass after allstar break. Trade deadline helps a little bit. Before allstar break our team was on fire
     
    #52 rockets13champs, Oct 17, 2017
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    Some people just live for the drama. Just watch basketball.
     
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    We need the Pelicans to really, really suck this year. :)​
     
    #54 RudyTBag, Oct 17, 2017
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    Burt is buying the hookers!
     
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    nothing to do with Morey, they lost a few games they should have won
     
    #56 kingkingston, Oct 17, 2017
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    MDA is blaming Morey as much as he is blaming Steve Nash in this tweet.
     
    #57 napalm06, Oct 17, 2017
  18. heypartner

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    Well, maybe it is actually *you* who are wrong in that assessment, i.d.i.o.t.
     
    #58 heypartner, Oct 17, 2017
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    not always right, but never in doubt. ;)
     
    #59 Os Trigonum, Oct 17, 2017
  20. Os Trigonum

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    go Yanks
     
    #60 Os Trigonum, Oct 17, 2017
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