Trey's parents strike again on Twitter
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Wrong. It is very different. These are professionals getting paid tens of millions of dollars. Would you like your parents to come to your work place and lecture your boss about your work situation?
mellow
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Did you see how bad Blake played in his next game? Blake might've had his last great career night on Wednesday.
mellow
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Welcome to the brave new world. I recently talked with an HR manager for a large organization who told me that more thane once in the last year she had parents show up with the kid for a Job interview, and unlike Trey these kids had degrees.
orangello
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orangello
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Joe Bagadonuts
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Your post reads as if you think this is worse than a parent punching a little league coach. I'm sure I must be misunderstanding you.
You are misunderstanding me. This is about whether this is similar in nature to interference from parents in their school-aged kids sports.
Joe Bagadonuts
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Oh. I see the differences... and the similarities. Some parents aren't too good at allowing their kids to grow up. Trey's parents seem to have way too much of their own ego invested in his success.
Which isn't acceptable behavior, is what I'm saying. Burke should tell them to STFU.
Maybe he has.
You are expecting people who have shown they are overly emotional to have restraint on twitter, where it's super easy to just voice your immediate reaction to anything.
True.
Miggs
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Burke parents,
The only reason Detroit loves your son is because they're thankful as hell that he's not playing there. Get a clue. He's a ****ing bum of an NBA player. Be thankful he's collecting a nice ****ing paycheck to subsidize what I can only presume is a legitimate drug addiction since you must be high if you actually think Trey Burke is any ****ing good. Now shove off.
The only reason Detroit loves your son is because they're thankful as hell that he's not playing there. Get a clue. He's a ****ing bum of an NBA player. Be thankful he's collecting a nice ****ing paycheck to subsidize what I can only presume is a legitimate drug addiction since you must be high if you actually think Trey Burke is any ****ing good. Now shove off.
Joe Bagadonuts
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Parents don't need to be high to believe in their children or to have inaccurate views of their lives. They are foolish to jump into a public debate, though. Trey's dad's post is a no win move.
da ThRONe
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This. It's funny few people here show any kind of restraint yet has the gall to demand it from other people who are far more emotionally invested then they are. These are his parents people. It's as easy to dismiss this is it is to be offended.
Their behavior can affect their son's image and reputation. Our behavior here is completely inconsequential to anything.
TheGobertReport
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Trey cannot be held responsible for how his parents conduct themselves via social media or what they say. The fact that he has not played up to expectations for where the Jazz traded up to draft him makes it worse, but the two things are completely mutually exclusive. The nature of social media as it pertains to sports fans (anonymous trolls and mouthbreathers who engage on facebook/twitter negatively with vitriol under their real name) is ugly to begin with, and it doesn't help when the team of the fan is losing.
I doubt it ever becomes an issue to the point of an actual distraction to the team, and a factor in wins and losses/chemistry on the team.
My personal feeling/opinion is that it is unfortunate that Trey's play dictates how Jazz fans will interact with his parents on social media.
Bottom line is that TREY changed the entire game for the Jazz against the Pacers in the second half, and would get the game ball if it were up to me. I am just as anxious to have a legit PG as the next Jazz fan, and have been ready several times to give up on Trey. But I always give him another chance because there's just something about him that keeps me on his side. I'm pretty sure it's that intangible assassin gene he has on the court. I can't wait to see how the rest of this season plays out. It won't surprise me if he regains the starting spot at some point relatively soon if he strings together a few more games like the last two if Neto remains up and down.
I doubt it ever becomes an issue to the point of an actual distraction to the team, and a factor in wins and losses/chemistry on the team.
My personal feeling/opinion is that it is unfortunate that Trey's play dictates how Jazz fans will interact with his parents on social media.
Bottom line is that TREY changed the entire game for the Jazz against the Pacers in the second half, and would get the game ball if it were up to me. I am just as anxious to have a legit PG as the next Jazz fan, and have been ready several times to give up on Trey. But I always give him another chance because there's just something about him that keeps me on his side. I'm pretty sure it's that intangible assassin gene he has on the court. I can't wait to see how the rest of this season plays out. It won't surprise me if he regains the starting spot at some point relatively soon if he strings together a few more games like the last two if Neto remains up and down.