The time of year where any of the league’s thirty fanbases believe that they can go all the way, just because they clobbered the Chinese champions (this will be the only reference to China, don’t panic). Again, the Golden State Warriors are no exception with lofty expectations.
It can be perfectly easy for people to also switch off and dismiss anything that occurs in the early days of October as a glorified training session that means very little in the grand scheme of things.
Both can be true, but there are sometimes glimpses within a team’s preseason that can stoke interest.