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The Front Page Is Turning Into Lowlights, Bad Stats and Draymond Clips (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by nsfw2102@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Do y’all even like basketball? Talking to the 14 year olds on here, sub is starting to feel like a teenagers group chat.

No one likes a “this sub sucks” post but man! An actual basketball highlight will get much less attention than a lowlight of the subs hive mind favourite punching bag

Look at all the Harden lowlights and stat posts

Look at the Poole highlight clip recently that had farrrr fewer upvotes than the lowlights

I get it, you think Draymond Green poisoned your water supply, cool. Does every Draymond interaction need to be posted so people can circlejerk about how much they hate him?

Shoutout to the actual comments keeping me coming back. The great analysis, funny lines, interesting background info I missed and especially a good Le joke. Some of y’all too creative man!

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[–] atkobt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kenny Beecham said it best about 70% of nba “fans” don’t really like the game but the drama that’s attached to it.

[–] nsfw2102@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I really hate seeing the very common comment

“The nba is just soap opera for men”

Uhhhh not for me? I’m actually here because I like basketball? And watching talented athletes compete?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to say that ‘drama’ isn’t interesting or something I’m so ‘above’

But my interest in a drama is usually how that will affect the teams chance of winning a title

[–] MargielaMan568@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Turning into? This has always been the case of this sub lol.

[–] thatcuntcat@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Lol 🤓

[–] nsfw2102@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man don’t remind me…

The hate machines really got rolling then, I think at one point around the kings series there were multiple front page posts that were basically just “draymonds a bitch” with people echoing in the comments.

[–] MargielaMan568@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

After the whole Sabonis thing, right? Yeah, I remember that. Shit, I remember a lot of people on this sub lost their mind with Draymond in the finals in 2022 against Boston after Al Horford and Derrick White shot crazy from three, almost 50 percent together in a game. In the postgame interview, Draymond was basically just saying he's not worried about them shooting like that again, and a majority of dudes were heated over him saying that and calling him a disrespectful player for saying that.

That's just how a lot of people on this sub are, to be honest. You can't really fault them because many of them don't actually watch games. They just watch highlights and box score watch

[–] Steko@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It'd be really easy to fix but I doubt they'll do anything until the alternative subs start doing better numbers.

r/justbasketball is r/nba minus hate posts and circlejerk but still pretty new and only has 20K subs.

r/nbadiscussion has a decent number of members (480K) but no game/highlight threads and no player comparisons so not really a threat to what most people come here for.

[–] TurokSeeds@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It’s not just here. The majority of people willing to spend hours commenting on Reddit/Twitter/Facebook have lost purpose in life.

When your entire life is self hatred you need to exert that hatred outward to avoid explosion. It’s sad but a symptom of larger issues.

[–] Logical_Soup_3627@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not ashamed to admit I’m a casual.

My baby brother is really into basketball, he’s like a D1 prospect and shit. So I just come on here to stay updated, that way I can have a little more in common with him.