We’ve started to sputter, the engine light is flickering on at times with undiagnosed faults and the sheen of the strong start is beginning to fade slightly in the onslaught of the realities of a full season.
We are meeting the Heat, twice, in Miami. They have lost their last three and may even be without Jimmy. But if we lose these two we will be back to .500 and we’ll have lost three in a row.
I feel that might be when reality returns to our perspective. I’m still good with my 44 wins prediction, but I know some of you were bullish on 50+.
If we do lose the next two games, and let’s be honest, that is well within the realm of possibilities, how disappointed will you be? Ready for a trade? Ready to demand different line-ups? Not disappointed because you know we’re growing basketball? (And ironically we haven’t done that for years and years…)
Shut the fuck upppp
Ya’ll are soft as baby shit. Fan base collectively misses their Zoloft doses the second the guys have a poor outing. Find a hobby or something else to obsess over when there’s 2-3 days between games.
Can I just point out that I didn’t state that I’d be disappointed? I’m just wondering what the temperature in the sub is at this stage of the season.
Let the boys play. There will be games they look phenomenal and games they look off base. This is all part of the journey of developing a young core. As long as they continue to play with effort and review the tapes to find ways to improve, then that is more than good enough. Realistically the rebuild will take several years and we just started the second year.
It’s up to the players. They have proven multiple times that they can beat the best teams. Over 82 games, they’ll have off nights, sure. There’s just certain games they can’t take the night off, like the Orlando game where they had all week to prepare and get right. Or the Blazers game where you’re at home against a team that’s tanking.
My expectations have always been this is a . 500 basketball team right now. If we slip to . 500, that’s about the level of basketball we have been playing for the most part.
As you said, it’s a long season. It’s 82 games. The Pacers are also a young team with new pieces and schemes. So they very well may end up an above . 500 team just by ironing out the inconsistencies that come with being a young team incorporating major changes this year.
With that said, I’d be ecstatic if they play above this level. Haliburton has already changed my mind on the type of option I thought he could be as he’s seemed to have improved a LOT this year (again).
The dust settles and the smoke clears; behold the annihilation of our desires!
Bennedict of Mathurin lies impaled upon his own sword and Lord Myles Turner bleeds from a thousand wounds. Betrayed by his brothers’ blades and slain heartlessly, he weeps his final tears, his loyalty rewarded with murder.
And all around linger the rest, crushed underfoot by foes much grander in stature.