Are the Nets fans "optimistic" in the face of overwhelmingly pessimistic punditry, as Nathan Pemberton writes for New York Magazine? Have they learned from experience not to have expectations? Or do they know something?!
Maybe it's because of the negativity being peddled by pundits (you know, that they're "putrid" or "pocket lint" or "arguably the worst team in the NBA") or that they used up all their delusion in 2013 when their owners were ready to design championship rings following the trade for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Whatever, as we say in the borough of no expectations.