Is anyone else just tired?

I'm with you. I'm a little sick of having guys come in that everyone expects to be superstars, and then incompetent FO does jackshit.

I'm sick of not making shots, of not playing defense, and the same bullshite again and again no matter the coach, GM, or players.

Just constant mediocrity (at best) is weighing on me.

Griff needs to show something by next offseason or frick him.

I realize I have been one of the ones on here stressing patience and this was a multi-year process. But this shite is just pitiful.

Man, I had an almost identical experience. I have one friend who I text back and forth with during games and I said something to the same effect. Pels playing defense, making adjustments, calling timeouts to stop a run! We're finally seeing coaching and progress! Then it all just falls right through my fingers like squeezing a handful of dry sand. Loving this team is a constant emotional beatdown. It's frustrating.

Honest question. Is it normal to blow a 16-19 point lead and lost by almost 20? It seems to happen to this team.

It’s more normal than you think in this day and age with the pace and the 3 pt shooting, especially if you have a lead on a team that is truly much better than you.

Having a coach that’s main strategies consist of posting on twitter all day and then packing the paint even against elite 3 pt shooting teams also contributes.

The indy, okc, and charlotte losses were inexcusable and I think temporarily wrecked our confidence to a degree. I’ve actually seen improvements the last 3 games, but we were just up against elite teams.

Honestly, I think we all need to take a step back and have some perspective. Young teams and young players do not win in the nba. It’s a 3-7 year maturation process. Go peep the bucks back in Giannis first few years in a weak east or even the early okc thunder teams. When your best players are 20 and 23, you don’t win very many games in this league. You have to learn how to win in the nba. You can’t just dominate 1 year of college and lead a team to the playoffs. It never happens. Lebron is the exception and it didn’t happen year 1 for him and he played in the East.

I still think its fun to watch the games. I have zero expectations. This is not a title or bust season like the Saints. All I really look for is improvements in our 2 main guys (Ingram and Zion), which we see nightly, and also improvement from our other young guys (hayes, naw, kira), which we have also seen lately.

Step away from the ledge and look at the depth of mature talent in this league. Our window is in 3-5 years. Not now.

In the meantime, Let’s just enjoy the simple things like Ingram becoming KD Lite, Zion regaining his burst and absolutely bodying people, NAW getting comfortable and looking hella sexy, Hayes playing hard and splashing corner J’s, and KIRA running the 4th unit in the last 90 seconds of games and getting his shot opps hijacked by hermangomez and naji marshall.

Apathy is setting in with this team.

I want to care about them, but it's getting harder and harder to take this franchise seriously.

Welcome to what a true rebuild looks like. All I heard on this board was how bad Demps is, his young vet strategy is so stupid, why is he trading all of our first round picks. Now we are doing it the right way for a team in a small market.

I was tired from work Thursday and went sleep without watching the game. It was on Dvr which I put on first thing in the morning before leaving for work. Once I ffwd and saw the lead at end of the first I prepped myself mentally knowing it was going to be gone by half and wasn't disappointed. Ffwd thru the rest of the game, left for work while listening to NolaJake rant and rave about the game. Get to work, YouTubed the post game conferences and watched Zions highlights and now I'm good mentally. As a few others the Indiana game hurt and to follow it up with okc and Charlotte just made it all numb. Since Kira didn't get run, I'll delete the game and it's probably gonna be the first one I haven't watched at least 5 minutes of in many years.

I will say, Zion is much watch TV so I'll still at least tune in for that. This weekend is actually a make or break for me. Gotta see something different, hoping Gabriel can at least go to the scorers table.