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Why do we have different threads for the Cavs and Warriors?

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alldaboston:
As Roy mentioned in the Cavs thread, we can discuss the purpose and motives and reasoning of those threads in the Comments and Remarks section of the forum. So...

Let me start off by quoting celticsclay, who i agree with, on this topic:


--- Quote from: celticsclay on November 02, 2016, 12:35:51 AM ---We have had other primary competitors over the years in the eastern conference. We have never dedicated season long thread to them. I was curious if we have other posters that also  find it a bit troubling. If we are not allowed to discuss that (in a polite constructive way) I won't say anything else about it.

--- End quote ---

The bolded is exactly how I feel. How come we need to have 1 thread dedicated to 1 team? Might as well give the Raptors a thread of their own. They're also a serious competitor and rival to us in the eastern conference. what's the threshold? what determines what team gets and doesnt get a thread of its own?

my point, of course, isnt that i believe we should have more threads for teams. quite the contrary! i believe having a thread "solely" for the cavs, and a thread "solely" for the warriors, makes absolutely no sense. The NBA thread is where we discuss the NBA. Having two or three threads prevents discussion between all members of the forum. not everyone will check each thread every day. no one's gonna look for these team specific threads either. hell, we have a "boogie watch" thread stickied, but this "Cavs thread" that's so important to Roy, isn't.

i believe that we don't need to separate out our NBA discussions because of the fact that two teams had historic seasons last year, so now they're special and deserve their own thread. the fact that the cavs have been our rival for a few years now is nothing new. suddenly now they deserve a thread of their own? makes no sense at all to me.

celticsclay:
Thank you for making this thread and asking. To some degree I can understand having a warriors thread because they set the all times win record last year and then add a very recent mvp.the forum this summer had many many pages discussing durant and the Warriors and long after he had turned down the Celtics. I could certainly agree it alos isn't necessary.

The response you made is a legit issue that a few others pointed out. Our NBA season long threads do end up being hundreds of pages long by the end of the season, but they are also not at capacity by any stretch. Stretching out the comments across an official thread for each team is disruptive and confusing to figure out where the NBA talk is happening.

Finally, the Cavs are a great team, but they are in no way the most dominant or intriguing team of the last decade. I do think it makes us look like we have some sort of little brother complex to be having a thread dedicated to their season. They have the best player in the game but are really no better than our big 3, the recent Spurs championships teams, the Heat championship teams, arguably the recent warriors championship etc. I did describe it as embarrassing and I do believe that. If I was telling a fellow Celtics fan about this forum and how much I loved it and he asked why we had a cavs season thread I couldn't come up with a good answer. Does it bother anyone else? Please keep it constructive and explain why.

LarBrd33:
I think there are dedicated threads for them because for all intents and purposes this is a two team league right now.  Barring something shocking and unexpected, those two teams are widely expected to be in the finals again.  This is reflected in the vegas odds.  Any other combo of teams (even cavs/spurs or Celtics/warriors) would be seen as a dramatic upset.

LatterDayCelticsfan:
Cos of 3-1

Roy H.:

--- Quote ---Might as well give the Raptors a thread of their own.
--- End quote ---

Feel free to. We have an entire forum to discuss the NBA, and if you find Toronto to be worthy of individual discussion, let your Raptors flag fly.


--- Quote ---Having two or three threads prevents discussion between all members of the forum. not everyone will check each thread every day. no one's gonna look for these team specific threads either.
--- End quote ---

I don't understand this argument. By this logic, CelticsBlog would be better if it was one never-ending thread. Why not scrap the forum, and turn it into a one-shop Reddit thread?

Individual threads make discussion easier to find, not harder.

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