The Painful Cyclone Realization

CyDude16

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Like I'm that bad? What is your account? I might have to follow it since you have the greatest opinions of all time. No more cap city highlights for you guys since I suck so much.

You wouldn't want to follow me. There's interactions with the opposite sex...

And no more cap city highlights!! The humanity! Think of the children!
 

Cy$

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people being an attention w**** on these social media sites need to stop. Not complaining about anyone on here, just life in general.

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cyclones500

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If anything, this will be good practice for you moving forward, as the anonymity people use behind message board names seem to make them tougher and more knowledgeable than they often really are.

And as good experience at how to handle criticism as a writer (especially of opinion-based work). 'Cause it'll come, even if you can make a point or argument as eloquently and thoroughly as possible.
 

Thompsonclone

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i don't, but their garbage still shows up on my feed as retweets, mostly them getting made fun of.
Struggling to see what garbage I've tweeted.. I just don't understand how my name gets brought negatively into a thread that I never posted in.
 

Final42b

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You wouldn't want to follow me. There's interactions with the opposite sex...

And no more cap city highlights!! The humanity! Think of the children!

Probably just you being a creeper. For someone as popular with the ladies as you claim you sure spend a lot of time on CF...
 
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Wesley

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Struggling to see what garbage I've tweeted.. I just don't understand how my name gets brought negatively into a thread that I never posted in.

Maybe because you are so 1937ish.:rolleyes:We are searching for reasons why we do not win every bball game after so many painful losses in fball season. :unsure:
 

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Maybe we need to have a non-tourny year so people can appreciate how good our team is again.

Exactly.

I didn't read the OP's posted article, but I did read the first 15 posts. Is it just me or do most of the loudest critics, and quickest to rush to judgment against the team (or in some cases praise the team) seem to be the newest members of the CycloneFanatic fanbase?

They seem to have the most recent "Join Dates", which suggests to me that the success has bred a "new" Cyclone fan (some might label them "bandwagon" fans) that only know great success. Also, these fans seem to be the most extreme in their emotions. Two such posters, not this OP to my knowledge, but a couple other posters I've observed, seem to swing from praising the team to criticizing the team based on one game.

It's a fascinating (some might say annoying) phenomenon.

Carry on.
 
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Clone_12

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Some people judge this team based off of the players on this team, and get upset about things like focus, urgency, and effort when they aren't there.

Some people judge this team off our results during the McDermott era. The people that do this are far happier.

What I want most for this team is for them to live up to their talent level. The effort, focus, and urgency have not been consistent with this squad and that is what upsets me. Fred and the players say the same.
 

Wesley

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Exactly.

I didn't read the OP's posted article, but I did read the first 15 posts. Is it just me or do most of the loudest critics, and quickest to rush to judgment against the team (or in some cases praise the team) seem to be the newest members of the CycloneFanatic fanbase?

They seem to have the most recent "Join Dates", which suggests to me that the success has bred a "new" Cyclone fan (some might label them "bandwagon" fans) that only know great success. Also, these fans seem to be the most extreme in their emotions. Two such posters, not this OP to my knowledge, but a couple other posters I've observed, seem to swing from praising the team to criticizing the team based on one game.

It's a fascinating (some might say annoying) phenomenon.

Carry on.

Yeah, the McD Lost Years were BaD. We did not know if we could win in Hilton.
 

Wesley

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Some people judge this team based off of the players on this team, and get upset about things like focus, urgency, and effort when they aren't there.

Some people judge this team off our results during the McDermott era. The people that do this are far happier.

What I want most for this team is for them to live up to their talent level. The effort, focus, and urgency have not been consistent with this squad and that is what upsets me. Fred and the players say the same.

Need to fix the defense at the three point line.
 

ImJustKCClone

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Exactly.

I didn't read the OP's posted article, but I did read the first 15 posts. Is it just me or do most of the loudest critics, and quickest to rush to judgment against the team (or in some cases praise the team) seem to be the newest members of the CycloneFanatic fanbase?

They seem to have the most recent "Join Dates", which suggests to me that the success has bred a "new" Cyclone fan (some might label them "bandwagon" fans) that only know great success. Also, these fans seem to be the most extreme in their emotions. Two such posters, not this OP to my knowledge, but a couple other posters I've observed, seem to swing from praising the team to criticizing the team based on one game.

It's a fascinating (some might say annoying) phenomenon.

Carry on.

Curious as to what you consider "new"? I may have joined less than two years ago, but I've been a fan for 30+ years. I'm just new to this message board because others I frequented moved to facebook log-ins. :)