lol just trying not have any more self-incinerations on my hands….

Keep on pluggin’, geo. You are the salt of the KB earth.

I hate therapy so much, it’s just so hard…

I was pretty fucked up…felt like I was always in survival mode…total bunker mentality…

it would have been sooooooo easy for me to end up alone, with little love in my life…

I do indeed love me some me – but – really big butt here – that is not a successful recipe for aging well…

it’s just not…

first was getting control of my body, which isn’t really all that hard…

no secret to it, specific techniques that can be used for that…

next is getting control of your mind, that is soooooo much harder…

I literally have to stop all my thoughts and focus on changing how I think of and look at things…it’s a very manual process at this moment…

once you get your body under control, focus your mind along the best path – your emotions will follow suit…

although it’s no real medical condition – I used to get them maybe every 10 years or so – basically a nervous breakdown…

just losing good control of your mind, body and emotions, it is such a helpless, shitty feeling…scary stuff…

having that happen to me in back to back years (’22 and ’23) made me realize I had to try to fix this thing…

it’s one of the things that moves me here on occasion…reading someone’s words and feeling the confusion in their thoughts and feelings…

I just got tired of winning…

I love that z-man…a lifetime of trying to do right and grinding away will do that for you 😊

Okay, so from memory- Problematic Patterns:
– jumping to conclusions
– exaggerating or minimizing
– ignoring important facts
– oversimplifying
– overgeneralizing
– mind reading
– emotional reasoning

I see you are not though, my bad…you’re so subdued these days z-man, the world must be right for you right now 😊”

Lol, same ol’ same ol’! I just got tired of winning…

At this point, honestly, my complaint is with you and your cohorts who will go to such extraordinary lengths to fight other posters that you will deny Thibs’ Knicks’ teams can’t score in the playoffs one day and then come back the next day and say we played the epitome of modern basketball with Deuce McBride Josh Hart and Precious Achiuwa. You’ll even throw in a “actually the Warriors’ death lineup couldn’t shoot” for good measure.

A few things:

First I don’t think I said any of the things in the above paragraph Secondly, I don’t “fight” with anyone. I discuss opinions about the Knicks. I disagree with your pronouncements about Thibs. You are free to disagree with mine.

I believe in Bill Parcells, “You are what your record says you are theory.” But sometimes context and reason must be applied. Thibs has a long record of sustained success in the NBA. It isn’t because he is lucky, it is because he is a good coach. Red on roundball… no. A simpleton…. no.

The year before he took over the Knicks they were 21-45. His first year they were 41-31. That was pretty incredible. He did it by taking a similar roster (minus crazy eyes and morris and adding derek rose, rookie IQ and burks) and moving them from 26th to 3rd in D-rating. They still sucked offensively not because the scheme was bad but because stud Randle is limited as a good player, rose was ancient and ran out of gas and RJ is inefficient, butterstumps and Mitch are useless 3 feet from the basket. They were 23 in O rating. It was no real surprise once the playoffs hit and Atlanta doubled Randle there just weren’t offensive alternatives. I don’t think Pringles could have gotten that group to score. Last year injuries to their two best players and IQ platzing sealed their fate. You are certainly allowed to disagree, but please don’t condescend and say it is a “brotherhood” just because we disagree with your conclusions.

Unless your detoxing from alcohol, don’t take Valium. It is great for preventing Delerium Tremens. Self-medicating is usually a bad idea. 🙂

But it also seems like Orlando has a cakewalk remaining to get the 4th or shit even 3rd seed if Cleveland collapses. Knicks Heat seems like a toss-up for 5th and 6th, at least Knicks have the tiebreaker vs Miami although finishing 6th would probably be preferable to 5th.

Either way just get relatively healthy come playoff time and avoid the play in.