I'm a Homer, and Yes, it's Early, but ...

[Nikos]

Boo hoo, cry me a river for Miami.

They beat LA, IN LA.

beat LA quite easily too. Get the facts straight before downplaying the team.

Sorry I made a mistake about the LA game, still not that impressive although their passing was that night.

I don't appreciate the at ude, but I guess that is just the nature of your posts. Sorry if I am not impressed with the Spurs beating teams they are supposed to beat, and losing to the Sonics badly (who I think are going to fade soon anyway).

[ShoogarBear]

But still a true fan believes their favorite team can win every game, no?

I don't think a true fan of the Bobcats (and there undoubtedly are some) believes they can win. He may wish and hope for them to win, but he realistically wants the team to be compe ive, the games to be entertaining, and to see evidence of hope for the future. Wins are gravy for now.

Spurs fans should believe they can win every game (while knowing that they can't), but also need to know that anything less than the WCF for this team would be a total disappointment. So when we lose, we should have intelligent discourse on whether there was just a blip, or whether there was evidence of something serious which might eventually prevent us from reaching our playoff expectations. (You know, the usual suspects: bad outside shooting, turnovers, offensive rebounds, lack of passion, Pop's subs utions.)

A true fan should be able to put love of the game over team loyalties, thus when the team or a player does something wrong, (s)he should be able to analyze it with other true fans.

A homer after a loss just says it was the refs fault, or David Sterns', or they cheated, or tells everyone else to just STFU.