Expectation, it’s a funny thing. It moves different within different circumstances, different elements, different bodies, different situations, different teams. Take the Bulls. What are their expectations of themselves? What are ours of them?
Promise usually has a lot to do with giving birth to expectations. Especially early ones. The Bulls’ problem, two games into their five-game preseason? Their past, their potential. They showed us promise two seasons ago — when everything was intact — that stuck with us. We’ve been locked in this time trap of believing (despite the never-ending mystery of Lonzo Ball’s career-altering injury/injuries) that that team will return at some point ever since. Which makes us fear if having expectations is just another way of lying to ourselves.
