I get what you're saying and sometimes find people's instant-negativity slightly irritating.It has really pissed me off over the last 24 hours to read all these negative posts about Pike and the coaching staff. The combined experience on this staff has forgotten more about basketball than the collective angry mob will ever know.
Pike and Co did not suddenly become dummies when the calendar flipped to 2021. I was infuriated by a few posters calling for his seat to be warm - they simply do not deserve the pleasure to be fans of this team and obviously have a very short memory that this job has been a coaching graveyard for the past 30 years.
What has changed in the last 2 weeks is that guy's with injuries are being forced to play more minutes than they should be, and in a very physical conference, our best big man is being forced to play tentative as he has good reason to believe he is being unfairly targeted by the refs. Those calling for Pike to get T'd up and show emotion are just idiots, a technical foul potentially loses us games, and Pike is certainly not a shrinking violet on the sidelines.
Finally, as Pike correctly pointed out yesterday, we thrive on transition. When we get outrebounded, we can't set up our transition game, and additionally, the huge foul disparity doesn't allow us to play transition basketball either.
Mac is back, which improves our defense, depth and FT shooting, getting Cliff back will improve MYLES, and most importantly, having time off will allow RHJ Geo and whoever else might be hurt, time to heal. Our best basketball is ahead of us, those negative posters don't deserve a seat on the bandwagon when it starts back up
I'm more analytical than emotional about sports in general (unless I'm playing). So when things aren't going well, I either don't post much (applying the "say nothing if nothing nice to say" principle) or else my posts revolve around support for the team and/or my opinion(s) about what we might possibly do to fix any problems. Usually, at least.
But lots of sports fans are truly fanatical about it. Deeply emotional. Combine that with some that have a propensity for negativity and blame-mentality in all things and there are always going to be a few who feel it necessary to throw tantrums at the expense of the players or coaches (or each other).
I figure there's nothing wrong with it. Just a different way of being a fan and it's a free country. Is up to me to not let others negativity affect me.
Sports fans are gonna sports fan.