Bagels wrote:
really pushing that conspiracy thing hard....
lol... you got me. i'm having fun with it, i mean, you can put on your tinfoil hat and call it red-pilling if you want, or you can call it a long-exasperated bulls fan (i started tuning out from watching this team midway through last season cuz i knew where this whole mess was going, save the derrick injury) just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks.
fittingly, of course, i went further in that direction with my edit of the first paragraph of that msg.... cuz like, seriously, i do believe that the NBA isn't above giving a team/game/series a few nudges to help it be as dramatic as possible, and hey, if the end result is that we get more close games at the end and the drama is milked, i'm not even saying it's a bad thing.
but yeah, i'm holding out some actual hope for this season that #THERETURN is gonna play out in such a way that derrick "shocks" us all and enters the series at a nigh dramatic time and perhaps leads the bulls to a title and builds his legend / legitimizes his 2011 MVP cuz he's led the bulls to the promised land. the NBA is into starbuilding and since the jordan era they've had a multi-threaded approach to building up regional legions of stars, so i mean, just imagine it if you were writing the script for "the derrick rose story" or something and you wanted to have the most cinematic #THERETURN possible.... yeah i'm daring to think that, cuz like, this is the NBA:WHERE AMAZING HAPPENS.... and don't forget that derrick is here on a 1.9% chance from some ping pong balls popping up in the bulls' favor during the ONE season where they barely missed the playoffs in the last ~5-6 years. just think if boylan had led them to the playoffs and they didn't have a chance to get that ball..... can you even begin to fathom where the bulls would be right now?
but yeah, you do have a point and i'll pipe down on the conspiratorial talk and just have the occasional smarmy sarcastic #THERETURN quips.... grab ya popcorn!
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Curious Hair wrote:
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