How're you feeling about the coming season?

You may pick more than one option.

 

Somewhere between
Nervous
and
Cautiously Optimistic

 

VERY excited!
More than any season since LA/Wes/Rolo and Nic left!

 

Somewhere between
Nervous
and
Cautiously Optimistic

 

Ya, I have us 5th-3rd.
If it was a regular 82 games, I'd put us at 55 wins.

 

I feel Strangely Zen about most everything ..the tao is the tao!

 

I bounce back and forth from confident in the team being top 2/3 in the west, and this being similar to Nate's last season here, implosion and sell offs

 

Not excited and not totally sure why. Almost feel like Covid and Trump and some other personal things have kind of put me in this “indifferent” mindset. Which kinda sucks. Maybe that’ll change when the season starts.

 

I think we need to have 20 regular season games behind us to judge where this team is at this season....we're watching a rushed training camp right now

 

I went with Zen. On paper this team looks as balanced as any since the Roy years. The Wes teams were talented, but their strength was the starting five and not so much overall depth. The defense still looks bad, but at least there are now pieces to work with defensively and assuming they'll look better 40 games into the season. Unfortunately, I suspect we only did enough to hold serve as a 2nd tier contender with teams like Utah, Dallas, maybe the Clippers and whoever makes an ascension-- and that's assuming Dame and CJ don't begin the inevitable descent from their prime. I think Denver and the Lakers are still the class of the West. Excited isn't the word, but more curious. And that's a new feeling when it comes to this team.

 

Prior to the preseason I was feeling optimistic. After seeing how poorly all the parts - old and new - fit together, I am ready to throw in the towel. Instead of a well-oiled machine, the team is a chamber pot with random, broken parts rattling around in it. I'm seriously considering taking a vacation from fandom until Olshey and Stotts are replaced.

 

Mixed feelings.

One part of me holds out hope. Dame's teams always start out slow, but, they figure it out after the AS break.

Without a training camp, and with a shorter season, and too many iso plays. The other part of me wonders if the end of season improved play means instead of losing games by 30, the Blazers will only be losing by 10.

 

Nothing about zen is strange.

 

I’m optimistic and strangely Zen ready to be scared and pessimistic at any given moment.

 

It is if you are a Blazers fan

 

You went from "optomistic" to "throw in the towel" because of three preseason games? Yikes.

 

Indifferent to resigned.

Same crap, different season. NO continues to double down on the aspects of this team I dislike the most.