Sean Carroll

They want to fire the coach.

They want to fire the players or et cetera.

I'm just not like that.

If the players are on my team, I'm going to root for them.

I'm going to root for them to play well.

That's what I want to see happen.

But of course, the reason why you want to see that happen is because you like it when they win and you're sad when they lose.

And it is not missed my attention entirely that you get sad when your team loses.

And why are you doing this to yourself?

Yeah.

Why are you inflicting this pain on yourself?

And the NBA and most sports have the feature that the last game of the season that your team plays, they will probably lose, right?

Because half the teams that don't make it to the playoffs, on average, or probably more than half, will lose their last game of the season.

Once you get into the playoffs, the only team that ends its season on a victory is the team that wins the championship, right?

So most people will go into the offseason unhappy in some sense.

And so at what point do you give up?

At what point do you stop watching or whatever?

I will certainly say, you know, for the Sixers in particular, which I'm most familiar with, it was more fun to watch them in some sense

Well, it was fun to watch them in different ways when they were completely struggling intentionally because they tore down the team in order to rebuild, okay?

When they did very, very well in the draft lottery and got Joel Embiid and other players.