统计毁了对游戏的热爱吗？

Enjoyment of the game is the topic of today’s Blazer’s Edge Mailbag. If you’ve got a波特兰径丝滩赛or NBA-related question, send it along to blazersub@gmail.com and we’ll try to answer!

嗨戴夫，

Love Bedge, love your perspective and writing. And I love the Blazers.

我今年51岁，而一个运动坚果 - 我的第一个运动爱是棒球，但篮球是一个紧密的第二个。我经常玩幻想运动（虽然近年来）。我肯定是一个高级统计的家伙 - 我觉得革命在詹姆斯的票据的作品中推广在棒球上，并由其他许多人建立在这么多人身上，这一直非常有趣和精彩。

然而,……

I find myself wanting more and more to stop viewing the teams and sports I follow as an armchair GM. Player salaries, salary-cap machinations, roster construction, etc. - I have enthusiastically embraced all of these as topics for a long time, and I'd never tell anyone else to either pay attention or not pay attention to these things - to each his own, as long as you're not hurting anyone else, right?

But I guess I am coming to accept that not only am I NOT a GM now, I also never have been one, nor will I ever become one. I haven't even come close to working for a team. And so, while the play-along-at-home nature of that type of fandom is something I have deeply enjoyed, I also have a creeping suspicion that it may have actually been... sort of pointless. The enjoyment is the point, I know. But that brings up another question - is it potentially getting in the way of other flavors of sports-enjoyment?

今天你的邮袋今天对读者来说，昨天缺乏缺乏的狂欢者，昨天赢了魔法，真的对我概述了这一点 - 有很多人（这包括我）谁遵循了贸易截止日期的推特更新，今天早上是一个大的话题，并且有很多潜在的交易是我的可能会变得好奇或不满意。但我也看了游戏，完全从赛季的背景下，以及是否Meyers Leonard将曾经发展成一个超过有限的分钟的长凳，这是一个有趣的游戏！当我在我的大脑中关闭那些其他主题时，我能够真正享受历史上将作为一个没有特别重要的游戏。

Thinking aboutDamian Lillard也会提出这个问题 - Dude有他的缺陷，任何理性的通用汽车至少应该开放到他们名单上交易任何人的可能性。你正确地提出了通用汽车将在制作这种交易的问题，这是一个有趣的讨论 - 我不要求你停止覆盖这些元素！

But wholly aside from those perspectives - the guy is awesome. I LOVE watching him play; I love listening to him talk about the game, and I love the fact that he lives here, and likes it here, and says he wants to stay. When I watch him, the 10-year old fan in me, who didn't give a crap about the business of the games or strategies for optimizing the utilization of draft picks, comes out, and I find real joy there.

我在我的成年人知道这是一个失望的道路 - 明星确实得到了交易，或者在自由机构中离开，或者失去一步，然后他们作为首发的角色，然后是他们的工作。

In the meantime - it's fun to root for the home team, as flawed as they may be, and as little hope as they may have of winning a championship. I can understand, intellectually, why smart Blazer fans might be in favor of a tank job this year. But I'm having a difficult time finding the joy in that, personally. Our team may be stuck in the dreaded middle ground - good enough to aspire to a low playoff spot; not good enough to advance. But while long-term strategic thinking is certainly my prerogative, it's also NOT my responsibility. And I think I just might be happier letting someone else do that for a while.

无论如何，这可能是太长而漫无漫步的邮袋，但我想无论如何都要写它。如果有的话，你希望它有什么关系。

Roger

我经常编辑问题，但我完全留下了你的味道，使这个功能历史上的最长的单个邮袋问题。祝贺！

扶手椅通用汽车已成为新的体育参与浪潮。而且，至少轶事，NBA似乎比其他任何地方更强大。您提到的统计革命可能与此有关。立即在NBA中举动的正面反馈的可能性以及与其他体育贡献的贡献也是如此。NBA庆祝各个人才，在交易上喂养，其强大的CAP系统框架游戏中的游戏。出于所有这些原因，后座驾驶是这项运动中的大量大量。曾几何时，孩子们长大着关于为NBA团队的演奏而幻想。现在我们都想假装我们可以跑一个。

这对联盟不一定不好。起诉/贸易辩论娱乐，即使他们的团队正在失败，也要参与粉丝。当你的团队臭比当你的团队成功时，扶手椅GM'似乎变得更有趣，似乎更关心。在他的年度库存交付期间通过冠军运行圣诞老人的24多个特许经营者的粉丝在2月，6月和7月的折扣上击败了愿望购物。希望成为伟大的均衡器。

And let’s face it, NBA devotees are much better armchair GM’s than they used to be. Popular and media criticism of moves (and non-moves) has “smartened up” the league’s fan base. Twenty years ago everybody had to read tea leaves. Whichever team got the glitzier scorer probably “won” it. In 2017 even the lowest common observer has the tools to evaluate multiple aspects of every deal. Instant reactions are still hit and miss but over time patterns of competence are easier to trace and quantify...lessons easier to learn. Bad managers get exposed quicker; fans become smarter; the gap between the two closes.

But amateur GM’ing is still amateur. We cross a line when we lose perspective and begin to think we couldreallydo the job. This is just as silly as thinking we could actually play in the NBA because we’re pretty good at hitting jumpers in our driveway. Saying, “That’s such an idiot move!” is easy. Making the right one without benefit of hindsight is much harder. Some moves are dumb, but the complexities behind them aren’t readily apparent from the outside.

The slow leaching of in-game enjoyment you as people “Siskel and Ebert” every move to look smart and gain an edge is a real thing, in my opinion. Fantasy and video leagues are awesome. They drive engagement. They also threaten to dehumanize players and de-contextualize the game. Box scores and stats are useful for analyzing what happens on the floor. They’re meant to give us a lens to see the action clearer, with more information at our disposal. When stats exist for their own sake, we’re lookingat望远镜，不是通过it. When stats exist only to prove our point or our superiority, the telescope morphs into a cheap changing-room mirror. For 99.9% of the population, looking in the mirror is never as fun as watching a game.

里程可能因申请联盟的粉丝底座而达到多项问题。大多数事实证明了良好的兴趣是持续的。坏部分可能很烦人，但它们可能是无关紧要的。当然，除非您的团队当然是由亿万富翁超级粉丝拥有，妄想德国妄想和足够的游戏电影危险。我讨厌在前两周（甚至是第一年）的任何交易，但它肯定看起来像Sacramento Kings跟踪...... errrr ...有趣的标准when tradingDeMarcus Cousinsto theNew Orleans Pelicans为了Buddy Hieldand change. I hope Hield works out for them, but at least on paper the deal would have been lopsided even if Sacramento received Buddy Ebsen, Buddy Hackett, “Playboy” Buddy Rose, Buddy the Elf, and the complete discography of Buddy Holly on vinyl. If you want to see the pitfalls of armchair experts taking the wheel...well, enough said.

这并不是说批评是不公平的或禁忌。莫st people can tell the difference between a good meal and a bad one. Those impressions are interesting, often accurate, and fair game for sharing. But being able to discern that a restaurant only merits two stars does not mean that you’re qualified to head to its kitchen and put on a chef’s hat. When dining becomes about the number of stars instead of enjoying the meal, we’ve lost our way. That’s happened in the movie industry; music isn’t far behind. Positing the trend taking over sports isn’t a stretch. That’d be a sad day.

I believe we’re capable of finding the middle ground, sharing and learning truthful complexities without straying into the realm of hubris, but your question is apt, Roger, and we fail to ask it at our peril.

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戴夫