No different than if you drive a huge SUV and get pissed when you don't get good gas mileage..... or when you go on vacation to Cancun and get pissed you get a sun burn. I hate coming on here and reading people BLASTING my favorite team when they don't live up to completely unrealistic expectations. Sure, I want my Blazers to win 40 games and make the playoffs this year...... Will it happen, no. Why set your self up for failure. You don't get mad when you walk out onto the court and CAN'T dunk right? Of course not, cause there was NO way it was going to happen anyway. Be pissed when they lose, but be realistic.
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The thing is, you seem to lump all of us into one optimistic can of bullshit ready to explode the moment the team loses. While this may be true for a few, it is not true for all of us. I am one of the more optomistic people here, but Im not going to blow my lid if they lose more games than I predicted. I'm going to watch with earnest and see what type of improvement the players make individually and collectively to see what moves need ot be made.
Lest us not forget, we actually have 2 all stars*
The team is young, it obviously has a decent amount of improvement in order to even compete with the top half of the west on a regular basis, but here is what I have seen so far from the preseason. The first unit of Dame, Plum/Meyers/CJ/Harkless has been stellar and tearing up the other teams starting units. The second unit is younger and then Stotts is mixing things up in the line up trying things out and then the team gives up the leads. Give this team half the season to solidify its top 8 rotation and know who's playing with who and all that is left that I see is learning curve. Of this learning curve, I see it being short. I am already liking how well they are playing together even a midst not knowing when your gonna get called upon and who will be on the court with you, etc.
I have seen some good inside presence from Vonleh. Yes, he needs to work on his touch a bit more, but his paint presence and nose for the ball is already exceeding my expectations of him coming out of the gate. I saw him as a project for this year and I already see him possibly being part of the regular rotation.
There will definitely be more lessons to learn, but I don't think these losses in the ends of the last couple of preseason games were all about the youth and the other teams taking over, as much as it was Stotts not really having our closers in the games at the end. Once be breaks into the starting lineup with the first sub, it has been fairly unpredictable as he is testing and trying options and so forth. Let him figure that out, the players define their roles, the confidence will then grow and yes... I see the team improving quicker than most believe.
With that said, if they don't, Im not gonna blow my lid, so chill.
I get that but people have different ways of rooting for their team so I'll let people root however they want. Lowering your expectations so you don't get crushed is setting yourself up for an inaccurate prediction as well.
It seems you would rather have your expectations exceeded and thus are self guarding yourself from disappointment. I don't want to be too high nor too low with my expectations so that's how I try to view the team.
This. Impartially, I see this team at about 35-40 wins. But my hopes are .500 or better and Ive made bets on that. I bet against the odds. People do that ALL the time in Vegas.. Can you not stand them either?
Some people don't like to take the safe road. Low risk Low reward. High risk high reward. Some like taking chances. Deal with it bro.
