LifeOnaPlate
Well-Known Member
It's a pretty sad time for the "Jazz fan" aspect of my life. Yeah, there have been more crushing times. Finals losses, cruddy streaks, the loss of a favorite player here or there, injuries. For some reason this current slump seems a bit worse though. Perhaps it's because the current situation is on-going, with few to zero foreseeable solutions. At the end of a season that's it, the season is over, that's the end. During a season you have more to deal with. In Al's post game interview he talked about regretting the loss but that the team has to put that behind them and prepare (prepare for what?) for Phoenix. Yes, for pitiful Phoenix. A team, by the way, who has already defeated Utah once this season. That's what's coming up. We're in the dead of winter excitement-wise. Uptimism is gone. And we are about half way through a season that promises a first or second round exit. Again.
So we have what seems like a monumental melt-down of a game, injured players, weird locker room intrigue, an all-star who is playing hurt and not playing very well, an absent bench. At the same time, some of the problems from before are resolving. Bell has been playing well all of a sudden, Jefferson is really starting to produce, for instance. But we still lose and we keep losing.
As for the locker room situation, it pisses me off that something went down and they don't tell us what it is. There are hints that they will tell us on Friday. Great, how exciting. Waiting for some mystery announcement by a .500 ball club.
I feel sort of dead about it all, but there remains that nagging desire for the team to succeed, and a nagging desire to watch them succeed. After the loss to the Thunder I decided I wouldn't watch another game until after the all-star break. Of course, I capitulated and watched the Kings game. So I changed my resolution to a compromise after the somewhat promising win over the Kings (who barely lost to the Mavs last night by 2 by the way). I decided to DVR the Chicago game, watch the first half and then do something else during the second half in case they lose. If they win I can watch the recording. But even then I wanted to check updates on my phone. Addiction.
So there's this weird tension where this team is really making me frustrated, making me disbelieve, making me think they are just a pretty mediocre team, yet I still have some sort of drive to care about it. Maybe that drive will break down in the next few weeks and I just won't care as much. I don't know.
Anyway, this is my rant of frustration. Feel free to chime in with your own, offer suggestions for me, etc.
So we have what seems like a monumental melt-down of a game, injured players, weird locker room intrigue, an all-star who is playing hurt and not playing very well, an absent bench. At the same time, some of the problems from before are resolving. Bell has been playing well all of a sudden, Jefferson is really starting to produce, for instance. But we still lose and we keep losing.
As for the locker room situation, it pisses me off that something went down and they don't tell us what it is. There are hints that they will tell us on Friday. Great, how exciting. Waiting for some mystery announcement by a .500 ball club.
I feel sort of dead about it all, but there remains that nagging desire for the team to succeed, and a nagging desire to watch them succeed. After the loss to the Thunder I decided I wouldn't watch another game until after the all-star break. Of course, I capitulated and watched the Kings game. So I changed my resolution to a compromise after the somewhat promising win over the Kings (who barely lost to the Mavs last night by 2 by the way). I decided to DVR the Chicago game, watch the first half and then do something else during the second half in case they lose. If they win I can watch the recording. But even then I wanted to check updates on my phone. Addiction.
So there's this weird tension where this team is really making me frustrated, making me disbelieve, making me think they are just a pretty mediocre team, yet I still have some sort of drive to care about it. Maybe that drive will break down in the next few weeks and I just won't care as much. I don't know.
Anyway, this is my rant of frustration. Feel free to chime in with your own, offer suggestions for me, etc.
