I would like to know how fellow fans base their judgment of team performance. This thought arose because many have brought up how many games we/Vegas expected the Kings to win this season - and against that metric (sub 30wins) the team has outperformed by far. However, it is also evident that expectations have increased by the disappointment many of us have in post-AS record.
Do your expectations shift? Should they? My personal view is that while you can't be changing it on a daily basis, it is perfectly reasonable to have expectations shift upwards based on play. So having seen the Kings play in the first 30 games, it was reasonable to form a new expectation of making the playoffs. I do acknowledge that this doesn't work the other way - if we assembled a Durant LeBron team and expected to win 70 games before the season started, and 30 games in were below .500 I don't think I would be happy moving my expectations downwards and judging the team on some other non-championship metric.
Do your expectations shift? Should they? My personal view is that while you can't be changing it on a daily basis, it is perfectly reasonable to have expectations shift upwards based on play. So having seen the Kings play in the first 30 games, it was reasonable to form a new expectation of making the playoffs. I do acknowledge that this doesn't work the other way - if we assembled a Durant LeBron team and expected to win 70 games before the season started, and 30 games in were below .500 I don't think I would be happy moving my expectations downwards and judging the team on some other non-championship metric.