this pissed me off so much, and after atttending two games, lower bowl, in series 1, i have to say that the crowd honestly is a big part for our success, and that last nights loss was because of those f*cking bandwagon, fake @$$ fans that sit down the entire game and occasionally clap a little. Someone from the warriors organization needs to do something about this.
Tickets should only be sold to the most intense fans.

Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

There's nothing we can do about this aside from getting our True Dub broke as*es to the game even more.  Grassroots effort on GSoM dot com???

ticket sales for round 1 had thousands of real fans lining up to buy 4 or more tickets to round 1 games 3 and 4. tickets for game 6 all went to brokers and were not available to these type of fans. it actually showed up at game 6 of that round when you saw more people who looked like they did not know what they were watching with such a fast pace. i noticed it, but thought maybe it was just the section i was in. still, i mostly figured a lot of people were like me; they wanted to get game 6 tickets and witness playoff history no matter what. i knew having to pay as much as i did for round 1 game 6 would tap my wallet unless they could make it past the next round and until my next payday!!

i got in to the game last night because my friend wanted to go and he paid for my ticket since i was the person who scored face value tickets for him to see all the games he has seen with me since march... before friday night, we went to a total of 11 home games since this whole playoff run started, and we missed the san antonio game so we had an amazing undefeated streak going(until last night).

if there is a game 6 of this round, i cannot see myself being there unless i receive another gift; or at least a ticket @ face value and a quick trip to the record store to sell a crate of classics. given their performance last night, i am loathe to make that choice(my wax or my dubs), but i would be happy to be faced with that choice too.

anybody have a face value ticket to offer me?

"DOWN IN FRONT!" and "WHY ARE YOU STANDING ITS ONLY A FREE THROW!" were the most common cheers coming from section 219.  Here's what I wrote to Bill Simmons after reading his latest blog ...

I'm here to back up the email you got from the upset Warriors fan over the crowd at Game 4.  Maybe it was Sunday, maybe it was Mother's Day, but the crowd yesterday paled in comparison to the Dallas series.  

Game 3's crowd was ok, but since everything was going the Warriors way, it was hard to tell.  On Sunday I was actually yelled at to sit down.  I've got "Down in FRONT!" numerous times and "Why are you standing, it's only a free throw!"  You sang our praises as Warrior fans, and while I appreciate your compliment, it was a bit of a stretch.  

I don't feel sorry for those fair weather fans.  I feel sorry for the hardcore fans that came out on Sunday for the first time (I was sitting next to a few) and got THAT crowd.  

Was at the game last night.  I was very disapointed    with the crowd!  The energy just wasn't there like the other series.  I couldn't quite put a finger on it but This makes prefect sense.

....but this will never be followed.

All playoff tickets should be sold as "free-for-alls" where only the fittest survive, meaning whomever has the most dedication will run their asses of to the ticket lines when the gate opens. that will ensure a raucous crowd.

damn bandwagoners. it pisses me off. cuz i would have been yelling my ass off if i was there.

diary:
as the Warriors get more successful, the crowds are going to get less crazy. Rich aristocrats and the upper middle class are going to start to be more interested in the Warriors, and they will buy out the lower level seats from the more die-hard fans. If the Warriors keep winning, pretty soon we're only gonna see corporate exec.s, brokers,lawyers, doctors, etc. in the lower level spending half of the game looking at their blackberrys.

It really is a sad thing to see, especially since we prided ourselves on being passionate, involved fans.

screw em man. when is the next GSOM night? that will show em some real fans.

yelled at me to sit down too!! To make things worse it's not like I even had many people behind me. I was in section 203 row 17...and it goes up to 19! Those people tried to ruin it for me. At least there was a guy who stood up for me there.

turn into Dallas' fans next year!!!!!!!

dude the wagon ppl suck but you got to deal with it. if your the real fan make up for the stupid bandwagoners and leave the sharks out of it. and you call yourself from the bay.

I was also in 219. Lotsa jostling about the standing up and down. Interesting to learn others were in 219, sounds like I've run into some of you without even knowing it.

with bandwagoners/fairweather fans...I was still in my seat 15 minutes after the game ended, just in pure disbelief of the crowd last night.  We have now lost the title as "Best Crowd in the NBA", but thats not the real problem.  "Fans" buy over-priced tickets to support their team, but don't cheer/chant or tell other fans to sit down?!!?
WTF is that?!! Good thing no one told me to sit down. [/end rant]

why STAPLES Center always seems so quiet.

I sit in the lower bowl and the entire game I yell my ass off.  Yet since it was Mother's Day I was unable to show up.  So the warriors are undefeated when I am there in the playoffs.  I knew I messed up in not attending, but if we win game 5, I guarantee the place will be rocking for 6.  Sorry that was my fault.

the funny thing is that i was at home watching the game on tv while my cousin was at the game and after hearing the crowd i got all angry that i wasn't there to help fire up the crowd... so angry that i texed my cousin something along the lines of... "are you at the game? the crowd is so quiet on tv... effin get them fired up!  this is pathetic."  

seriously though... we get hyped as the loudest arena in basketball... they bust out with the decibel meter for Game 3 multiple times (and even that game was kinda quite by comparison to the mavs series) and they don't even break it out once on Sunday... pathetic.

we gave mavs fans isht for leaving games early in their arena when they were winning... we gave them isht for leaving games early in their arena when they were losing... and now look at some of the fans... leaving with 2 minutes left?  are u serious?  Does Reggie Miller scoring 8 pts, in the final 16 seconds to beat the Knicks back in the late 90's prove anything is possible... shows how much those fans believe.  

so pathetic.  i sit right by a standing room section, and one fucker was cussing out beidrins for not making both free throws.

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fucking bandwagonners...

gotta be something we can do.. its hurting our team! any ideas anyone?

I've been a reader of this website for just over a year, but never posted before.  I was the "Will from Oakland" that Simmons quoted, and just felt like saying whats up, now that there is a diary on the subject of my email.  Everyone better bring it for Game 6.

being mother's day, there were a ton of old ladies in the arena. a woman who sat in front of me spent the whole game sitting down, and didn't even put on her yellow shirt.  for all i know she was taking a nap. with utah playing well, the yuppies, the mothers, it was a perfect storm for a weak crowd.

and there is nothing you can do to stop bandwagon fans, save try to convert them into better, or at least noisier and knowledgeable, fans. the best way to do that?  don't know.  contentious rants might put the pressure on the yuppies to perform, or perhaps letting them know that noise, and more importantly timely noise, is the gas that helps the wagon run.

i was so heated at the Sunday game.  after being to two games in the mavs series and yelling and standing the whole game, losing my voice essentially in the first half . . . fans were yelling at me and my boy to 'sit down' instead of yelling for their team to win.  if you can't see or don't want to come to a PLAYOFF game to go nuts for your team, keep your ass on your couch the way you did the whole season.  say what you will about players not showing up in some games this series.  oracle didn't show up  on sunday.  i'd like to say i did everything i could to turn that around.  it was sickening to see some of the fans that were there that night.sickening