Honestly I dont remember it at all... As soon as the regular season starts every year my memory completely goes blank on the preseason.

But im wondering - How did we do? What were people saying? Was it already looking bad? or was the optimism flowing....?

I remember we went 4-1 in Las Vegas. Then the roster changed slightly and we did were good but less successful in the next league.

But Ariza, Lee, Frye, Nate, Sweets, etc were all running, disrupting and looking good. We had one of the more encouraging summer leagues.

I knew it was gonna be trouble though when all that energy was gonna meet up with the negativity of the veterans and the prior year. I was gonna show a post I made then about how the team seemed to be built around Crawford and his cronies (Nate, Q, Curry, Frye, Lee) and how I expected there to be a clash of leadership when their positivity had to meld with the negativity of the prior year (ie, Marbury, Mo, Malik, et al), but the board seems to have purged a lot of the old threads.

Anyway, most observers expected us to contend for a playoff berth. They thought we had some talent and that Brown would add wins, but they questioned if Brown, Isiah and Marbury could fit all their egos inside one team.

I went to a pre-season game against the Nets and I remember commenting on how sloppy they looked. At the time didn't think it was a big deal. They all seemed to be saying a lot of good things about LB at that moment so I really didn't have an indication as to how they were going to do. I was still confident that we would still be able to pull an 8th seed and continue our life in mediocrity.

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I remember Summer league last year being good but thats diff... Im talkin about PRESEASON... anyonek now that record?

Oh, sorry, I misread that. I think I recall us being mediocre. If I remember correctly one of our best showings was when Marbury was out with a stiff infection. I mean staff infection.

wow first preseason game last year Qrich was 1-12