Why are we so upset?

I don’t know about you, but I prefer when my team wins usually.

I love to win, but I also know it will take awhile for this team to find its footing and for us to know what we have. And by “awhile, it may be most of the season.1 didn’t go in with
expectations of a playoff run. There will be losses. And head-scratching frustration.
If the Board had its way , we’d be firing staff, trading and waiving every player on at least an annual basis

The alternative is we win a decent amount of games, have a mediocre draft pick, and keep treading water with Gentry a coach who will never elevate this team to championship level

It sucks wasting another year but the way we have to build a team in a small market it can’t be done in a year

I think the team shows great potential. One of the main things they need to figure out is how to close games right now it seems like that is where they lose the chemistry and quit trusting each other

I think that will clear up as the rotations clear up.

With completely new players shite takes time dick head lmao

Same people that are upset are probably the same people who though it would be a good idea to acquire Kevin Love's horrible contract so we could 'win immediately.'

As already stated, this team has no obvious superstar to anchor around, on a roster with as high of turnover as any team, that lost a key cog days before the season, all in a new(more complex) defensive scheme.

The idea that they would hit the ground running was a hope that should have been buffered by realistic expectations of likely growing pains.

Despite that though I see a budding superstar in Ingram who has demonstrated so far he has worked on most of his areas of weakness, a roster as deep with upside talent as any in the league, veterans that will either be able to find their footing or have a reputation that will afford the franchise ample opportunity to sell them with net positive value, and a team that has shown flashes of what it can be(mostly in the first quarters where the chemistry maintains itself best) once the chemistry improves and calcifies into an identity
we can carry through entire games and the coaches get comfortable with what rotations/lineups work.

And as the season goes on I expect Bzdelik’s defense to be more comfortable for players and the mix of offensive and defensive chemistry, with insane depth from high upside players, to give us an exciting product.

But honestly, if we are going to get chicken littles for the next 20 games I’d rather those casuals just take a break and come back when the bandwagon is ready to go. This is the NBA, unless you have veteran superstars, things take time.

I’m just upset that Jrue hasn’t stepped up and led this team. Who’s going to be the Alpha dog on this team? Someone needs to take control out there. I thought it would be Jrue because we’ve seen it before but it certainly hasn’t looked that way so far. I’m not worried about the Ws this year.

Jrue is honestly the person I am most concerned with. But I have to remind myself he always seems to get off to notoriously slow starts offensively. But I do wonder if the best Jrue is a Jrue with a superstar drawing attention away from him so his deficiencies can be covered up or offset by having less focus on him. And that even after finding his groove may struggle greater than anticipated all season unless Ingram continues
his allstar growth and Zion can carry his preseason performance over.

At the same time I think if he does underperform he is a really enticing trade asset at the deadline. I know it’s sacrosanct but I suspect his reputation will hold and he could be the most intriguing piece for a near contender to give up quite a lot to bring in in the hopes it pushes them over the edge.

Takes time for young new teams in NBA to close games. Even Lebrons Heat team took time. That will come but Im excited to see the progress BI is making in his game. He needs to be that second star for this team in the future and it looks like he can be.