The Orlando Magic may be satisfied with their offseason moves so far — including the acquisition of Serge Ibaka in a trade that sent Victor Oladipo to Oklahoma City — but their fans don’t exactly share that sentiment.
That was the lesson learned by the team over the weekend when its official Twitter account asked fans to sum up their summer in three words. It didn’t exactly go well.
Describe our offseason in three words . . . #2016In3Words pic.twitter.com/NGm1rb2syk
— Orlando Magic (@OrlandoMagic) July 16, 2016
Whenever a team asks forĀ fan input in a public forum, some negative feedback should always, always be expected. That’s just how the internet works. But I’m willing to bet the Magic didn’t expect the extent of hostile responses that they got, otherwise they probably wouldn’t have followed through with it.
Yes, the team got a buttload of responses, but a vast majority of them were negative. Here’s just a sample of how hilariously misguided the idea was.
stupid offseason moves
— USF Beatrice (@USF_GreenNgold) July 17, 2016
https://twitter.com/BubbaGuest/status/754340617350619137
https://twitter.com/preston_mcgraw/status/754340180660596737
100 percent trash
— Clayton (@CJRiddell27) July 16, 2016
maybe next year
— Randy Oreens (@ItBegins2012) July 16, 2016
you guys suck
— Brant Hecking (@brant) July 16, 2016
One embarrassed fan.
— Josh Lewis (@josherberg) July 17, 2016
In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, some fans were a little more specific — though no less harsh — in their evaluation.
https://twitter.com/ballitmut/status/754340884922175489
Why the trade
— Kevin Kvasnok (@KevinKvasnok12) July 16, 2016
https://twitter.com/BottDylan/status/754347744593059840
In the end, though, nobody had a more helpful contribution than this guy.
https://twitter.com/GABrownsGuy/status/754349276831092738
Yeah, that’s that good, desired engagement right there.
(Via Yahoo! Sports)