At some level, horrible players can’t disappoint us. It’s all about expectations, right? The first step to being disappointed is setting the achievement bar somewhere higher than the ground.
So when we talk about the NBA season’s most disappointing players, keep in mind they’ve already done something that had us anticipating some level of success. We react differently when they fall short of our preconceived target; even a performance that might otherwise be characterized as “good” by mere mortals can earn the “disappointing” label. That’s particularly true if, say, a player not only sustained his success in an unbroken string of excellence for two decades but had done so at
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