The Anatomy of Overreaction: Sizing up the Charlotte Bobcats based on PREseason

Wikpedia defines the Kübler-Ross model as a 5-step process which describes how people deal with grief.  The stages are listed as: 1) denial 2) anger 3) bargaining 4) depression 5) acceptance If you're asking yourself why I'm referencing this model, you must not have watched the Charlotte Bobcats first preseason game.  I couldn't help but remember this cycle as I watched the "game" unfold. I had been looking forward to watching NBA basketball the entire summer.  I spent all my lunch breaks at work checking box scores from summer league games, trying to find internet radio links to listen to the games, reading up on Larry Brown and how he was meticulously changing the Bobcats style of play.  And there they were Wednesday night, getting run out of the building by the Magic.  My roommates and I immediately found ourselves going through the steps of Kübler-Ross... "...there's no way we're this bad... right?..." "...if they don't ... (link)