HALLELUKA: Luka Clinches All-NBA 1st team. 4th in 5 years

[mavsluvr]

It is not "uncivil" to strongly disagree with someone and point out where a statement is wrong and incorrect.

What is "uncivil" is saying "It does kind of feel like you are taking crazy pills" because now you have gone "ad-hominem" and made it "personal" through your own choice to not engage with the discussion about basketball, but to make it about my person. And please stop saying things like "my comments are not a personal attack, even though you keep pretending that they are"...you just said in your opinion that you think I am taking "crazy pills", you just chose to make it personal. You went there. Your choice. You control how you engage with me and whether you want to talk about my positions, opinions, and statements or whether you want to make it "personal." Please stop blame-shifting. I have not made this "personal," your statements have.


These are facts:

1) On/off +/- does not work the way it was stated. So I pointed that out.

2) I then spoke about what on/off+/- does in fact reveal.

3) It is a "straw-man" argument to present my position falsely in order to ridicule it and make fun of it. I have never gotten close to suggesting Luka should be traded. To go there in response to the data I presented is textbook "straw-man" stuff. You may think me calling such an argument "garbage" is inappropriate, but I believe such things are "garbage" because they are dishonest to the position of the person you are engaging with. They have no place when actually trying to engage in a discussion on the issues.

You are of course free to address people however you want. 

I just felt that it was important to let some of these other posters know that not everyone agrees with your low opinion of their offerings. 

Again, if I am overreacting, I beg pardon of whomever is offended, including you, and let's carry on.