Nothing is wrong with having some optimism, but being blindly optimistic and criticizing those who hate the way the team continues to play is wrong. I always have optimism with the team, but they have just had their asses handed to them by two of the worst teams in the league, and then were steamrolled by a really good Boston team, exposing them as the pretenders they have been. They have been mediocre at home and are leveling off on the road. Their slow starts, which were overcome earlier, are now really hurting them and all we hear is that there is no plan to change the starting lineup. There are grumbles that players still don't know the offense.
I haven't been a Sloan basher for about 20 years, but right now I keep waiting for him to do something, anything, that shows that he is trying to fix this. Instead, he runs out the same lineup, the same substitutions and expects different results. The only time anything changes is when there is an injury. This only increases my frustration because I don't see any reason that Hayward should have gone back to the end of the bench after his 2-3 game stint when given minutes. He was productive and showed that he was starting to understand what they were doing. Instead, he goes back to watch Miles shoot the ball almost every time he touches it, or Raja Bell have zero impact on offense.
Then there is Al Jefferson. I was excited when I heard the Jazz acquired him for next to nothing and had visions of him being our Gasol, the guy that other teams bitch about because he didn't cost the Jazz anything. Instead, he has become our Zach Randolph, a guy who has no concept of what it takes to win in the NBA but can pad a statsheet, except Randolph gets rebounds and sometimes shows toughness. I will admit that I didn't spend much time watching Al Jefferson play in Boston or Minnesota, but I can now understand why his teams sucked. He needs to figure out how to adapt to the Jazz offense rather than stopping the Jazz offense and he needs to figure it out now.
Until that happens, I will just sit with the other pouty losers and watch this team spiral down the tubes.