In lieu of this week’s mailbag (since many of the questions I received via social media or by email began with some variation of “how concerned should Team X or Player Y be?”), we’re going to break out the way-too-early Panic Meter. How it works: The scale goes from one to 10, with one being the equivalent of a shoulder shrug, a not much to see here about a problem that isn’t really a problem. A 10 is the basketball version of an asteroid eradicating all life as we know it.
Let’s begin …
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