All right, time to dig deeper into a subject that was inspired by some recent news, shall we say,

as the Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Philadelphia, 76ers, maybe New Orleans Pelicans,

maybe the Brooklyn Nets for winning too many games. I've all had varying types of disaster seasons.

So what we wanted to do is go back in time and look at some of the all-time disastrous seasons

and maybe put what's happened to these teams this year into some historical context.

Dan, to you, what makes a disaster season?

So they come in all shapes and sizes.

I think at the end, we'll do some type of ranking.

And I'm just going to say off the bat, my ranking is number one, there's going to be

recency bias.

And number two, there's not going to be one single criteria.

It's just going to be most disastrous however we get there.

Being bad

is a key aspect, right? There are going to be few good teams mentioned, maybe a couple,

because there's something else too. There's expectations. A disastrous season, you're falling

short of expectations. The higher the expectations are, the more room there is to fall. I think

both our lists will lean toward teams that had high expectations and fell way short,

but sometimes even low expectations, teams still go below those.

That can be disastrous.

It also involves kind of the feeling around your team.

I think that's something we're seeing in Dallas where, where look at it, they're going to

make the postseason probably.

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