Comments on: Al Thornton: “The Most Selfish Basketball Player I’ve Ever Seen”

By: shd

shd — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:30:41 +0000

theres a real good article on this on http://www.clipsnation.com

By: Will

Will — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:41:21 +0000

The Clips should give their team to Seattle………..

Was that inappropriate?

By: AB_40

AB_40 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:56:02 +0000

al thornton is a year older then lebron james so his game won’t grow in leaps and bounds it will grow in baby steps. Seniors who go to the nba have that… well at least if they’re already pretty sollid players like kenyon martin and al thornton.

By: recession balla

recession balla — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:03:25 +0000

…you must be new to dimemag they make quite a lot of shit up….

By: recession balla

recession balla — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:02:19 +0000

…they were more successful when they were the Buffalo Braves….

By: Doog

Doog — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:28:03 +0000

@ #14 (Big Freeze): I’ll take the hit on the language. But the point is slightly different. It’s not that Dime should post articles based only on facts, not opinions. My point is that a good article (or post) doesn’t blithely ignore facts that appear to contradict the opinions. It’s as easy as adding a quick sentence like comment #15, which provides some additional color that might explain the discrepancy.

By: doc

doc — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:23:39 +0000

Sterling is a racsist anyway and one of them Clippers need to beat the shit out of him.

By: the cynic

the cynic — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:17:55 +0000

@ Doug

you don’t watch clipper games, that number is skewed by the fact Ricky Davis was forced to play point guard for about 3 weeks and also missed a chunk of the season due to injury along with accumalating tons of garbage time. Most of the season Thorton has had to scored 20+ just for the clippers to have a chance not to get blown out, so he has forced a lot more of his offense. I will say Thorton is a terrible passer though who is even worse passing on the move

By: Big Freeze

Big Freeze — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:58:07 +0000

Nice post #13. After I dug trough all your pompous, bullshit-ridden language, I can summarize it in a much easier to read form: Post articles based on facts, not opinions.

But check this, if Dimemag – and the media in general – only posted articles based on facts and statistics, that would be boring as fuck and it wouldn’t attract any readers and thus no potential consumers for advertisers to appeal to. That mans Dimemag would get shut down. So fuck facts and statistics, I wanna read more misleading and biased articles!

By: Doog

Doog — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:35:28 +0000

The point of my post (#6) wasn’t that Davis isn’t a knucklehead. And, frankly, a case can be made that Davis is a more selfish player. But there is no denying that Thornton’s statistics (i.e., a record of fact) support the notion that he is a selfish player and that he is—at least, by one measure—more selfish than Ricky Buckets. Thus, absent further explanation or dicussion, the rhetorical force of the contrast is reduced when it relies on unfounded assertions that are not only unsupported but also contradicted by an evidentiary record. Analysis and commentary tends to be much more insightful when it does not privilege anecdotes or one’s own subjective perceptions over objective fact.

But maybe that’s just me.