I've noticed that several people seem to care about preseason so much that they ignorantly ignore the official NBA season. Why is the latter more important than the former?
There are immensely many reasons to this, of which I'd like to identify the few most significant reasons. First, do any NBA teams truly intend to do well in the preseason? I mean, come on, L.A. Lakers may not have had the best preseason for 2010, but if we did that bad in the 2009 NBA Preseason too, then how come we were able to win the 2010 NBA finals against Boston Celtics?
Second, and the most important of them all, preseason does not count towards any NBA teams' official records. As such, a preseason win is for nothing: No value, no significance, no true prediction, no importance for NBA stars... nothing.
Lastly, if the preseason is supposedly to showcase talents of all players, particularly the rookies, then all NBA teams would know what to expect. The problem is, the huge bias is the devil in the details of every single player. Not even statistics can be used to validate the true strength of one player. You've got yourself many lurking variables in the process. All you can do is watch, but you can never decipher all the true strengths of one player. It's like this, you can predict, but you can only discover 99.9% of the player's talents. Why subtract 0.1%? Because 0.1% corresponds to luck. In fact, luck may even be part of more than 0.1% of the NBA player, even up to 99.9%!
The only way to truly know a player is to watch him often enough. But even then, you still can't fully predict what happens in the next game.
All I am saying is, care for what is important, and leave the insignificant aspects behind. This is because caring for the latter will simply put you into shame if an NBA team does perfectly well in the NBA Preseason, but does a miserable job in the official season.
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