Pieter-Steph: Boks’ shy new superstar

Thats odd, why are you chaps always fighting over certain sportsmen???

I find it very peculiar when a man or a woman idolises anybody...except when you are a little person in junior years looking for a peer image or hero. I certainly don't but I respect and admire certain people but never put them on a pedestal.

When very adult men or women behave in this manner...idolise sports people, film stars, religious leaders, politicians, or even the best there is, confuses me, totally and utterly, it's unnatural.

I can respect and admire certain people and even love people that are close to me but never idolise.

I'm fully aware we all have many foibles...sports people, celebrities and high achievers often the same and in some areas more because like a spoilt child cannot deal with the basics of real life.

Seb

Ask the self-proclaimed magnificent three world experts on site - the three that consider them better than other analysts/experts     because they identify problems other analysts never saw - why they constantly attack certain players and even Erasmus - often on totally misrepresented grounds.

That type of thing always raise my ire - if they use factual grounds I would support them and I have in the past make negative comments on some players - but I have grounds for it and gave real reasons for why I criticized such players.  I do not manufacture dubious and misrepresented reasons for such criticism.    When the latter happens I will always defend the player or coach under attack.

Factual grounds? Why don't you address the information I posted above? That right there is the factual basis. You ignore it because it derails your narrative. That's why all the Steph groupies ignored it. This was a very simple issue. One could merely have acknowledge these things and we'd all have concluded that Steph got better as the game went on and made some great contributions. Honesty, the road less travelled, and we find ourselves yet again having to establish very simple truths instead of discussing more interesting and richer topics. We end up with the communicative equivalent of pig feed.