The 2024-25 NBA regular season is still less than a month old, but it's never too early for teams to worry about slow starts.
Sure, coaches and players might not admit they're panicking per se. But when a team starts losing, it's hard not to feel a sense of the season slipping away. Take this quote from New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson a few weeks ago:
"It's a high level of urgency but not in a panic kind of way. It's more of a focused, coming-together-as-a-team kind of way.