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54 minutes ago, ?4thewin said:

"Hey I don't want people hyperanalysing every moment of my summer. Please stop recording me working out"

A clip of him taking one step back jumper made the internet go crazy. The same clips last summer created a situation down the line where Philadelphia fans now bombard him with angry messages daily on every social media platform. 

He doesn't know if he's going to be able to come back from this yet so it makes sense that he doesn't want the attention until he's really back. 

This is going to follow him the rest of his career. If it isn't this it will be something else. From everything we have seen about his mental makeup previously we would think he could handle it. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 

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1 hour ago, ?4thewin said:

"Hey I don't want people hyperanalysing every moment of my summer. Please stop recording me working out"

A clip of him taking one step back jumper made the internet go crazy. The same clips last summer created a situation down the line where Philadelphia fans now bombard him with angry messages daily on every social media platform. 

He doesn't know if he's going to be able to come back from this yet so it makes sense that he doesn't want the attention until he's really back. 

He was the number one pick in the NBA. He has to expect to be over analyzed from day one. This is weak minded, if he can’t take scrutiny then maybe he should take up badminton. 

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2 minutes ago, fan for too long 2 said:

He was the number one pick in the NBA. He has to expect to be over analyzed from day one. This is weak minded, if he can’t take scrutiny then maybe he should take up badminton. 

He came out of nowhere to become the consensus #1 pick very quickly.  I think it was too much for him, especially the expectations that go with it.  Again, the new start here without the same kind of expectations could really help him, hopefully.  

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27 minutes ago, JJZFL said:

He came out of nowhere to become the consensus #1 pick very quickly.  I think it was too much for him, especially the expectations that go with it.  Again, the new start here without the same kind of expectations could really help him, hopefully.  

No, just because he played for wash. St. Does not mean he came from nowhere. He was touted the second half of his college season. And he played a lot of high quality aau ball. He was not a nobody at all. 

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30 minutes ago, JJZFL said:

He came out of nowhere to become the consensus #1 pick very quickly.  I think it was too much for him, especially the expectations that go with it.  Again, the new start here without the same kind of expectations could really help him, hopefully.  

No he didn't. He's not some out of nowhere player. He got division 1 offers as a sophomore in high school. He was conference player of the year as a junior and was considered a top 10 recruit in his graduating class before his senior year. He dominated the Adidas hoop summit and international games. At the end of his senior year he was a top 5 recruit. 

He's not some late bloomer not used to the spotlight. 

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I disagree wholeheartedly with the cliché of "he just needs to suck it up" or "he's weak-minded".  None of us morons posting on the internet can even fathom the level of fame & scrutiny these dudes receive, and they get it starting as teenagers.  Imagine being an 18 year old drafted first into a professional sports league with billions of fans.  You get hurt, get the yips, whatever the reason -- doesn't matter.  You can't play.  Now you're being talked about 24/7 on TV.  Grown adults are in your social media mentions calling you a bum, a piece of ****, hoping you can never play again or you die.  Is it weak-minded to be thrown off/hurt/offended by that?  It's human nature to not want to be talked about negatively.

Chris Vernon had a good story about this on a recent Ringer podcast.  He was talking about how he got to know Chandler Parsons while covering the Grizzlies and Parsons basically confided in him about being miserable.  It was a long-term effect of not being able to play, seeing people pointing & whispering about him when out in public, being confronted by people telling him he wasn't worth his contract, etc. 

Long story short, there are very few athletes or people in general who can actually successfully tune this much negative feedback out.  If Fultz has in fact been affected by it, then I guess he's human?  What's the problem?

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18 minutes ago, ML6 said:

I disagree wholeheartedly with the cliché of "he just needs to suck it up" or "he's weak-minded".  None of us morons posting on the internet can even fathom the level of fame & scrutiny these dudes receive, and they get it starting as teenagers.  Imagine being an 18 year old drafted first into a professional sports league with billions of fans.  You get hurt, get the yips, whatever the reason -- doesn't matter.  You can't play.  Now you're being talked about 24/7 on TV.  Grown adults are in your social media mentions calling you a bum, a piece of ****, hoping you can never play again or you die.  Is it weak-minded to be thrown off/hurt/offended by that?  It's human nature to not want to be talked about negatively.

Chris Vernon had a good story about this on a recent Ringer podcast.  He was talking about how he got to know Chandler Parsons while covering the Grizzlies and Parsons basically confided in him about being miserable.  It was a long-term effect of not being able to play, seeing people pointing & whispering about him when out in public, being confronted by people telling him he wasn't worth his contract, etc. 

Long story short, there are very few athletes or people in general who can actually successfully tune this much negative feedback out.  If Fultz has in fact been affected by it, then I guess he's human?  What's the problem?

You know what the best players in the world do with all this scrutiny?  They surely didn't run from it. God forbid he becomes the leader of this team and can't handle the pressure associated with it. 

They were 15 second clips of nothing and he had them removed. It's kinda weak man. 

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Just now, TheNameIsOrlando said:

You know what the best players in the world do with all this scrutiny?  They surely didn't run from it. God forbid he becomes the leader of this team and can't handle the pressure associated with it.  

They were 15 second clips of nothing and he had them removed. It's kinda weak man. 

Kevin Durant is one of the 15 best basketball players of all time and he openly struggles with all of this.

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3 minutes ago, ML6 said:

Kevin Durant is one of the 15 best basketball players of all time and he openly struggles with all of this.

Most people doubt his leadership ability for that very reason. Again, God forbid Fultz becomes the leader of this team and can't handle the pressure associated with it. 

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9 minutes ago, ML6 said:

Kevin Durant is one of the 15 best basketball players of all time and he openly struggles with all of this.

Yes, but part of being great is being able to overcome it, or at least manage it, as Durant clearly does.  

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Just now, JJZFL said:

Yes, but part of being great is being able to overcome it, or at least manage it, as Durant clearly does.  

I don't think that Fultz's ability or inability to do just that is determined at 21.  We are making a ****load of assumptions here over the past 2 pages. 

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