Seph
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My post was in response to your poor argument. Nowhere did I say Tavares was just as inconsistent as Okposo, you're making things up again. I just said Tavares had never achieved the standard you were setting for Okposo, which was an entire season of consistent play.Tavares doesn't take off half a season, or more pretty much every year like Kyle. He has bad stretches like many good players. It is a consistency thing so go ahead and declare my argument invalid all you want. We've seen Kyle down and up, and the one thing he has been consistent at is being inconsistent.
Your post was in reference to Kyle, in a Kyle Okposo thread, and you did compare Tavares as being just as inconsistent.
Fair on saying it wasn't most, though 2 goals and 9 pts total over 27 games which is more than half the season is pretty awful, but it was also accompanied by a continuation of the contact free play which dogged him since the big injury.
I don't see where I am being silly or unfair or disingenuous in asking to see a fairly consistent season first. Let me ask you, do you think he has been consistently good prior to the start of this year?
Okposo played 54 games last year. So if you want to say Okposo was bad for the first 27, that is exactly half the season. Which yes, is quibbling, but if you're going to use a 3 game swing to say more than half, we're already quibbling. But again, that's not really my point here.
It's silly, unfair and disingenuous to expect a player to play an entire season at a high level without a poor stretch. A healthy Crosby does that, and... Well, that's about it, these days, really. A player can have a bad stretch or two during a season and still be a good player, or have a good season. That's my point. I don't really care whether or not you think Okposo has had an overall good season in the past, but I do think saying because a player has had a bad stretch of play every season means they're a bad player is a crap argument. Until you explain why it's a valid argument, all you're doing is creating straw men.