Tom Pitt
Well-Known Member
The NBA season slammed to a whiplash-giving halt on Wednesday, and Rudy Gobert testing positive for Covid-19 served as the impetus. This is bonafide sea change territory. It's unfortunate Gobert's legacy is likely to be marred--unfairly-- by this; he's certainly not the villain NBA twitter is purporting he is. Reckless, immature, irresponsible, but ultimately a good dude is a more astute in-passing analysis when compared to the heartless polemics volleyed from the minds of the masses.
At least from my vantage point on NBA twitter, fans of other teams don't think highly about the Jazz or Jazz fans anyway. Egad.This will only add fuel to the vitriol. As you know, we tend to be seen-- unfairly-- in a pRoFoUnDly dIvErSe CoOkIe cUtTeR lIGhT. Just a bunch of racist mormons who somehow, in identifying as Jazz fans, find it routine business to hurl racial slurs behind the mask of a crowd (and somehow, in doing so, we never piss off our own players who happen to be of the race we are berating.)
As you can see, this is a well thought out narrative. Forget Utah's track record with slavery, civil rights, lynching, stark racial injustices when compared to pretty much every State in the south and midwest. Forget all of that, we are far and away the most racist fanbase. As I implied before, this is no superficial narrative. Egad. Human nature prevails! (Be it unsavory, we are probably all just as guilty in buying into beguiling narratives. We propagate them mostly with impunity, cultivating walls to divide. And usually, I'm not sure being "woke" means what we think it means.)
I'm getting sidetracked. Sorry. Pertaining to the Jazz and Rudy Gobert, there's an intoxicating amount of bunk out there. Shimmering factoids and falsehoods, to chafe and wage war on. It's time consuming and perhaps at times (I mean if you're not wOkE) a worthy distraction. To band together as Gobert apologists and defenders would certainly satisfy our tribal tendencies albeit implicit in this action is the peripheral notion that people who disagree with us are a bunch of silly a**holes who don't deserve to have toilet paper and bottled war at their place of residence; They can't all be bad can they??! (We are all so damn smart.)
So Donovan is upset with Rudy huh? And a rift has materialized amid the ballyhoo. If it's any consolation, I don't believe the rift is indelible. Donovan seems like the ultimate dude. Like, if I made a mistake and needed forgiveness from an NBA player, is there anyone in the league who seems more forgiving, other than Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo? On the flip side, if things do in fact go to hades, and my guy DL deems it prudent to deal the Stifle Tower, Boston seems like they need a center; Rudy for Hayward?! That's a 30 for 30 tale to be told.
The Jazz season is over for now and I'm writhing so much in boredom here I am writing again. Someone asked me what I would do with all time that has freed up. My response: Maybe I'll do something unconventional. Daring. Like really out there. Perhaps read a book?" While hunkered down in our homes, sitting on our thrones of toilet paper or lack thereof, consider the dying pastime.
Season is over. If I were a betting man, this will be known as the lost season.
Stay safe everyone. Much love.
At least from my vantage point on NBA twitter, fans of other teams don't think highly about the Jazz or Jazz fans anyway. Egad.This will only add fuel to the vitriol. As you know, we tend to be seen-- unfairly-- in a pRoFoUnDly dIvErSe CoOkIe cUtTeR lIGhT. Just a bunch of racist mormons who somehow, in identifying as Jazz fans, find it routine business to hurl racial slurs behind the mask of a crowd (and somehow, in doing so, we never piss off our own players who happen to be of the race we are berating.)
As you can see, this is a well thought out narrative. Forget Utah's track record with slavery, civil rights, lynching, stark racial injustices when compared to pretty much every State in the south and midwest. Forget all of that, we are far and away the most racist fanbase. As I implied before, this is no superficial narrative. Egad. Human nature prevails! (Be it unsavory, we are probably all just as guilty in buying into beguiling narratives. We propagate them mostly with impunity, cultivating walls to divide. And usually, I'm not sure being "woke" means what we think it means.)
I'm getting sidetracked. Sorry. Pertaining to the Jazz and Rudy Gobert, there's an intoxicating amount of bunk out there. Shimmering factoids and falsehoods, to chafe and wage war on. It's time consuming and perhaps at times (I mean if you're not wOkE) a worthy distraction. To band together as Gobert apologists and defenders would certainly satisfy our tribal tendencies albeit implicit in this action is the peripheral notion that people who disagree with us are a bunch of silly a**holes who don't deserve to have toilet paper and bottled war at their place of residence; They can't all be bad can they??! (We are all so damn smart.)
So Donovan is upset with Rudy huh? And a rift has materialized amid the ballyhoo. If it's any consolation, I don't believe the rift is indelible. Donovan seems like the ultimate dude. Like, if I made a mistake and needed forgiveness from an NBA player, is there anyone in the league who seems more forgiving, other than Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo? On the flip side, if things do in fact go to hades, and my guy DL deems it prudent to deal the Stifle Tower, Boston seems like they need a center; Rudy for Hayward?! That's a 30 for 30 tale to be told.
The Jazz season is over for now and I'm writhing so much in boredom here I am writing again. Someone asked me what I would do with all time that has freed up. My response: Maybe I'll do something unconventional. Daring. Like really out there. Perhaps read a book?" While hunkered down in our homes, sitting on our thrones of toilet paper or lack thereof, consider the dying pastime.
Season is over. If I were a betting man, this will be known as the lost season.
Stay safe everyone. Much love.
