Overreacting after the first game of a new season is a right of passage for sports fans. Patience is a virtue, but it’s hard to come by after a long summer without the NBA.
Most of the time, fans’ earliest overreactions only serve to confirm their own agendas. You can do it for almost every team: the Oklahoma City Thunder are poised to run away with the West, the Washington Wizards might lose 70 games, the Denver Nuggets have a real Jamal Murray problem, the Chicago Bulls’ trade for Josh Giddey was a disaster, and Cam Thomas really might lead the league in scoring. All of those agendas are
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