If you don't think drunk driving is a minor offense, then don't down play it like people are idiots to mention it as a serious character flaw. to me, getting drunk and driving a car is reckless endangerment, and a huge issue.
and again, i could care less that james posey did it, your assumption that I didn't think his DWI was a big deal is false.
You miss the point and misconstrue my words. I assume that if you think that a DUI is a big deal for Melo, you think it's a big deal for Posey. Therefore, you must believe, as you do with Melo, that Posey's off the court character flaw is so hanus that he shouldn't have been on the team last year.
your right, i do considered posey's off the court actions with regardes to drinking hanus. you were doing alright until you took the extra step and leaped to the conclusion that i must have not wanted him on the team last year to earn the right to even speak the lord melo's name in vain.
X doesn't equal Y here as you propose. I never argued this is the reason i wouldn't want carmelo on the Celtics, nor did i say that any person with charcter flaws is inherntly "not celtic material" or some such non-sense. I argued it was a character flaw that contributed to my hesitancy to trade away ray allen to gain another SF, when we already have a HOF at the postition.
for your above analogy to apply, i would have to have said i didn't want him signed for personal reasons. The logic your trying to escape out of is that you say melo is a high character, charity giving guy, yet he's appeared in a gang video, more than likely has a passing accuantince with the sticky icky, costs his team his services by suker punching someone, albeit a person i dislike immensely, and also that he drinks and drives.
I never gave those as reasons i was against the trade, which is what you propose in your above analogy. you attributed them to me afterwards once you'd deemed i was maligning melo's off the court greatness.
Your the one trying to attribute my dislike of his character to some arbitary judgment that he isn't "fit" to be a celtic under my watch. My contention was always that right now this would be a bad trade on a nuts and bolts level, since it would degrade our SG position to add a SF that does alot of the same things our HOF one does minus defense.
I did say that i also found his character flaws distrubing, and listed it as another reason i didn't like the trade, to which you poo pahed my dislike of his, and i qoute, "minor character flaws"
but in order for this to be a valid logical reasoning as you've described it, i would have had to say that I thought he wasn't "fit" to play on the team. I never said anything of the kind. I said it was a bad trade
Because it trades a HOF SG for a second SF bvut i made no judgment as to wheather i thought he was good enough to be on the team. If we were not in possesion of what i consider a much better SF, and melo randomly was an option, then i'm sure i could swallow my personal dislike of his actions on (the brawl) and off the court in defernace to the fact that he is a great player. I've done this with last years squad with several players, including your whipping post posey.
but that doesn't change the fact that i dislike melo's character choices, nor does it prove true your assertion that i have to have hated james posey for being on my local team to even have the right to dislike melo's antics .You are again deflecting the issue that you want every negative about melo brought up summarily dismissed as minor, while only the good you bring up counts in any discussion.
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