I think part of the problem for us as collective fans may well be the same dichotomy many of us feel as individuals. I KNOW this team needs help AND that the best hope for the teams future is a high draft pick in a good draft year. Therefore I KNOW that lots of losses TOTAL is not necessarly a bad thing, indeed it is in my opinoin the BEST thing, but during each game I can't help but want to see my team do well, and when they do I get excited. Sunday I was in ARCO and the place was a toomb during the first quarter. We had low expectations and yet as the game wore on and the Kings played D, filled in for the missing starters with energy I could not HELP but get excited. Watching Ronnie Price heard Nash like a border collie was pure joy! The 4th quarter is was like the ARCO of old... noisy and exciting.
Sure with absolute cold detachment a fan can look at the game and say a loss would be prefered but for me the game is more than W and L's for one afternoon I had something to root for. Like I said it is dichomatous situation where I want to see the team pick high in the loto but every single game I can't help but root for my team... This is the kind of season where you just know that with all this crap there has to be a poney some where!