I too was pleased with the effort of last night as I was in the recent Bulls loss (bad refs, bad luck there)'
Optimism about effort is a lot different than optimism of results, Ws and Ls.
I wrote this on another thread last night and thought it might be appropriate for this one:
"What's that old saying? "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice.......", .....so I am cautiously optimistic, but won't be at all, unless we make a significant trade.
These Cs are like the abuser in an abusive relationship where two people truly love each other. We are the abused.
They tell us they love us, they have to do better, that they are sorry, they change for awhile, and we are hooked again, because they have turned it around in the past, and WE TRULY WANT TO BELIEVE IT.
They then fall into that same pattern of behavior, and we are kicking ourselves again for having bought it, and somehow feel worse than we did before.
Effort or no effort last night,this team needs to be shaken to it's core, and I mean that literally and figuratively."