We have a young team with two key players injured and we lost to 3 of the best teams in the league on their home court. Two of those games we were up by a decent margin and we lost. That's what is expected when you have a young team (youngest in the league) that isn't healthy and were playing great teams in their house. Give them time, we'll catch up. Two other teams in the league that made the playoffs above us last year have the same record as us with a much easier schedule thus far. Its a long season. People need a little perspective around here.
Nicely said. This team is going to kick some rear. It is just a question of how long it will take. Will it be a month, 2 or 3...
+1 to that. We have the youngest team in the league, are missing two of our starters, and open the season against five teams that won at least 54 games last season (most brutal opening 5 game stetch in the 60+ year history of the NBA). Did people really think we were going to have a winning record after 5 games? Even with Oden and Webster, 2-3 would have been about right, and 1-4 a definite possibility. Without those two, 1-4 (or possibly 2-3) actually isn't bad at all and only about game behind the most reasonable expectations. Young or not, injured or not, our early season schedule is just flat out brutal. We started last year 5-12 with a MUCH easier schedule. Yes, the team will be better this year. Stick with them, let them get healthy, cheer your fool head off at all home games, and help them get through this nightmare of a schedule and everything will be fine. We'll make up ground in the standings later in the season when these guys have more experience under their belts and the schedule is more favorable. It's a long season people. Be patient. It will get better. In the meantime, I hope nobody suffers a season ending injury jumping off the bandwagon before it comes to a full stop. BNM
Don't worry about the season ending injury stuff . . . who do you think these bandwagon jumpers are, a bunch of Odens.
I think the biggest key here is that the losses have been on the road, against 50+ win teams. If all those teams played each other, it is very likely one of them would have 3 losses as well. Would that mean they are a bad team? Nope. It seems as though we have played poorly, but we have still been in a position to win 2 of the 3 losses, on the road. This should not be discouraging. We have seen glimpses of the talent and potential with this team. When they learn how to sustain it, at home and away, we will be scary. Sure, it would be even more encouraging to have won all these games, but nothing has shown that we will not become a very good team.
No excuses for losses. That's for losers. We played shitty in many of our games this year. Unacceptable.
So you tolerate poor performance with the qualifier that we play good teams at their home court with injuries?
We were the youngest last year, yes. Third youngest in history, actually. However, this year we are 23.9. Golden State is 23.6 http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/teams/roster?team=gsw&sort=null
During the Golden State vs Denver game the other night, the announcers kept referring to the Warriors as the youngest team in the NBA.
This is our toughest stretch of the season, it just so happened to be at the beginning of the season. If in your mind the team was going to go 82-0 or something you set yourself up to be disappointed. I mean you can bitch and whine all you want, or you can be a realist and realize sure we haven't played our best, but we've played tough teams without key pieces to our team. I mean the turds in your pocket. Feel free to be miserable all you want I really don't give a shit.
We should've beat the Jazz last night, there really is no excuse for giving that one away. I'll give the Lakers game a pass, they were going to smoke us anyway. But, with that said, they didn't play anywhere up to the level we all know they can.
So why don't we just lose all of the games and put the actual performance of the team to aside. Don't even watch, just wait until the stretch is over, right? Our play has been sub-par, competition being "50+ win teams" or not. If we expect to make the playoffs, we can no longer just throw games casually to the wayside. So go ahead and "be a realist" and just expect to get our ass kicked and not showing up for games. Losing is unacceptable, as is playing poorly. I am disappointed in the start of the season.
nah man, chill. the jazz...they're so much better than us anyways, so don't even pay any attention to it! just chill brah! even if we shoot 20% who cares? Reality!
everyone is forgetting how brutal our early schedule was/is. if we can get through the first 20 games 10-10 it will be a huge win for us.
"Sub-par" relative to what? Relative to what the team is capable of, or relative to the rest of the NBA? If the latter, I disagree. I don't think that most teams would have played the Jazz as well as we did last night. If the former, I disagree, as well. This team finished at 41-41 last year, and while Batum and Rudy and Bayless are all nice additions in the long run, with Webster out our team is arguably no better right NOW than it was last year. Put Oden in there, with Webster returning? Then we're an improved team. Fortunately our schedule will lighten up at about the same time... Ed O.
